Two improved Liouville-type theorems for the 3D stationary tropical climate model without temperature assumptions

Abstract

In this paper, we establish two improved Liouville-type theorems for the three-dimensional stationary tropical climate model without imposing any temperature assumptions. Owing to the special structure inherent to the equations, we fully exploit the $L^2$-estimate for the oscillation of the temperature, refined interpolation techniques and an iteration argument to establish a Liouville-type theorem under more flexible and relaxed power-law growth conditions. As an interesting consequence, we obtain the triviality of solutions under the integrability conditions imposed only on $(u,\nabla v)$ or $(\nabla u,\nabla v)$. Furthermore, by developing a systematic framework to handle the energy function associated with the non-trivial solutions and with the aid of delicate ODE analysis and a contradiction argument, we refine our Liouville-type theorem by introducing logarithmic corrections to the growth rates.

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