Variation on a theme of caffarelli and vasseur

Recently, using DiGiorgi-type techniques, Caffarelli and Vasseur have shown that a certain class of weak solutions to the drift diffusion equation with initial data in L2 gain Ḧolder continuity, provided that the BMO norm of the drift velocity is bounded uniformly in time. We show a related result: a uniform bound on the BMO norm of a smooth velocity implies a uniform bound on the Cβ norm of the solution for some β > 0. We apply elementary tools involving the control of Ḧolder norms by using test functions. In particular, our approach offers a third proof of the global regularity for the critical surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) equation in addition to the two proofs obtained earlier. Bibliography: 6 titles. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

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Author Alexander A. Kiselev Mathematics