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Parabolic equations with singular divergence-free drift vector fields

Analysis of PDEs 2018-12-19 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study an elliptic operator in divergence-form but not necessary symmetric. In particular, our results can be applied to elliptic operator L=νΔ+u(x,t)L=\nu\Delta+u(x,t)\cdot\nabla, where u(,t)u(\cdot,t) is a time-dependent vector field in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, which is divergence-free in distribution sense, i.e. u=0\nabla\cdot u=0. Suppose uLt(BMOx1)u\in L_{t}^{\infty}(\textrm{BMO}_{x}^{-1}). We show the existence of the fundamental solution Γ(x,t;ξ,τ)\varGamma(x,t;\xi,\tau) of the parabolic operator LtL-\partial_{t}, and show that Γ\varGamma satisfies the Aronson estimate with a constant depending only on the dimension nn, the elliptic constant ν\nu and the norm uL(BMO1)\left\Vert u\right\Vert _{L^{\infty}(\textrm{BMO}^{-1})}. Therefore the existence and uniqueness of the parabolic equation (Lt)v=0\left(L-\partial_{t}\right)v=0 are established for initial data in L2L^{2}-space, and their regularity is obtained too. In fact, we establish these results for a general non-symmetric elliptic operator in divergence form.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07727,
  title  = {Parabolic equations with singular divergence-free drift vector fields},
  author = {Zhongmin Qian and Guangyu Xi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07727},
  year   = {2018}
}

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28 pages

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