Low regularity of non-$L^2(R^n)$ local solutions to gMHD-alpha systems

Abstract

The Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) system of equations governs viscous fluids subject to a magnetic field and is derived via a coupling of the Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equations. Recently it has become common to study generalizations of fluids-based differential equations. Here we consider the generalized Magneto-Hydrodynamic alpha (gMHD-$\alpha$) system, which differs from the original MHD system by including an additional non-linear terms (indexed by $\alpha$), and replacing the Laplace operators by more general Fourier multipliers with symbols of the form $-|\xi {|}^{\gamma }/g(|\xi |)$. In a paper by Pennington, the problem was considered with initial data in the Sobolev space $H^{s,2}({\mathbb{R}}^n)$ with $n\ge 3$. Here we consider the problem with initial data in $H^{s,p}({\mathbb{R}}^n)$ with $n\ge 3$ and $p>2$. Our goal is to minimize the regularity required for obtaining uniqueness of a solution.

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