Well-posedness for local and nonlocal quasilinear evolution equations in fluids and geometry

TL;DR

This paper develops a Schauder-type estimate for linear parabolic systems with local and nonlocal operators, enabling new well-posedness results for various geometric and fluid evolution equations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel freezing coefficient method for kernel estimates and applies it to establish well-posedness for several complex nonlinear evolution equations.

Findings

Established Schauder-type estimates for local and nonlocal operators.

Proved well-posedness for hypoviscous Navier--Stokes and other geometric equations.

Unified approach applicable to diverse fluid and geometric PDEs.

Abstract

We establish a Schauder-type estimate for general local and non-local linear parabolic system $$\partial_tu+\mathbf{L}_su=\Lambda^\gamma f+g$$ in $(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^d$ where $\Lambda=(-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}$, $0<\gamma\leq s$, $\mathbf{L}_s$ is the Pesudo-differential operator defined by \begin{equation} \mathbf{L}_su(t,x)=(2\pi)^{-\frac{d}{2}}\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}\mathsf{A}(t,x,\xi)\hat u(t,\xi)e^{ix\cdot\xi}d\xi,\quad\quad \mathsf{A}(t,x,\xi)\sim |\xi|^s. \end{equation} To prove this, we develop a new freezing coefficient method for kernel, where we freeze the coefficient at $x_0$, then derive a representation formula of the solution, and finally we take $x_0=x$ when estimating the solution. By applying our Schauder-type estimate to suitably chosen differential operators $\mathcal{L}_s$, we obtain critical well-posedness results of various local and non-local nonlinear evolution equations in geometry and fluids, including hypoviscous Navier--Stokes equations, the surface quasi-geostrophic equation, mean curvature equations, Willmore flow, surface diffusion flow, Peskin equations, thin-film equations and Muskat equations.