Global regularity of semi-critical case of anisotropic quasi-geostrophic equations in Sobolev spaces

TL;DR

This paper proves the global regularity of solutions in Sobolev spaces for a class of anisotropic quasi-geostrophic equations with semi-critical parameters, extending understanding of their well-posedness.

Contribution

It establishes global existence of solutions in Sobolev spaces for semi-critical anisotropic quasi-geostrophic equations, a case previously not fully understood.

Findings

Global solutions exist for initial data in H^s with s > 1.

The equations are well-posed in Sobolev spaces under semi-critical conditions.

The results extend the class of equations known to have global regularity.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following anisotropic quasi-geostrophic equations \begin{equation}\tag*{$(AQG)_{\alpha,\beta}$} \partial_t\theta+ u_\theta.\nabla\theta +\mu|\partial_1|^{2\alpha}\theta+\nu |\partial_2|^{2\beta}\theta=0,\quad u_\theta=\mathcal{R}^{\perp}\theta, \end{equation} where $\min\{\alpha,\beta\}=\frac{1}{2}$ et $\max\{\alpha,\beta\}\in \left(\frac{1}{2},1\right)$. This equation is a particular case of the equation introduced by Ye (2019) in \cite{YZ}. In this paper, we prove that for any initial data $\theta^0$ in the Sobolev space $H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^2)$, $s >1$, the equation $(AQG)_{\alpha,\beta}$ has a global solution $\theta$ in $C_b(\mathbb{R}^+,H^s(\mathbb{R}^2)).$