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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 573087, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/573087 Research Article On the Well-Posedness of the Boussinesq Equation in the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz Spaces Zhaoyin Xiang 1 and Wei Yan 2 1 School of Mathematical Scineces, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 2 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, China Correspondence should be addressed to Zhaoyin Xiang, [email protected] Received 14 December 2011; Accepted 2 April 2012 Academic Editor: Ziemowit Popowicz Copyright q 2012 Z. Xiang and W. Yan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We establish the local well-posedness and obtain a blow-up criterion of smooth solutions for the Boussinesq equations in the framework of Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces. The main ingredients of our proofs are Littlewood-Paley decomposition and the paradierential calculus. 1. Introduction In this paper, we consider the following inviscid Boussinesq equations: t u u ·∇u p θe d , in R d × 0,T , t θ u ·∇θ 0, in R d × 0,T , div u 0, in R d × 0,T , ux, 0 u 0 x, θx, 0 θ 0 x, in R d , 1.1 with div u 0 0 and e d 0,..., 0, 1. This system describes the motion of lighter or denser incompressible fluid under the influence of gravitational forces, for instance, in the atmospheric sciences, where the vector u u 1 ,u 2 ,...,u d is the velocity, the scalar function θ denotes the temperature, and p stands for the pressure in the fluid see 1. The term θe d takes into account the influence of the gravity and the stratification on the motion of the fluid. In case d 2, it is also used as a simplified model for the 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with swirl away from the symmetric axis r 0.

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Hindawi Publishing CorporationAbstract and Applied AnalysisVolume 2012, Article ID 573087, 17 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/573087

Research ArticleOn the Well-Posedness of the Boussinesq Equationin the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz Spaces

Zhaoyin Xiang1 and Wei Yan2

1 School of Mathematical Scineces, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 610054, China

2 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Zhaoyin Xiang, [email protected]

Received 14 December 2011; Accepted 2 April 2012

Academic Editor: Ziemowit Popowicz

Copyright q 2012 Z. Xiang and W. Yan. This is an open access article distributed under theCreative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, andreproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

We establish the local well-posedness and obtain a blow-up criterion of smooth solutions for theBoussinesq equations in the framework of Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces. The main ingredientsof our proofs are Littlewood-Paley decomposition and the paradifferential calculus.

1. Introduction

In this paper, we consider the following inviscid Boussinesq equations:

∂tu + u · ∇u +∇p = θed, in Rd × (0, T),

∂tθ + u · ∇θ = 0, in Rd × (0, T),

divu = 0, in Rd × (0, T),

u(x, 0) = u0(x), θ(x, 0) = θ0(x), in Rd,

(1.1)

with divu0 = 0 and ed = (0, . . . , 0, 1). This system describes the motion of lighter ordenser incompressible fluid under the influence of gravitational forces, for instance, in theatmospheric sciences, where the vector u = (u1, u2, . . . , ud) is the velocity, the scalar functionθ denotes the temperature, and p stands for the pressure in the fluid (see [1]). The term θedtakes into account the influence of the gravity and the stratification on the motion of the fluid.In case d = 2, it is also used as a simplified model for the 3D axisymmetric Euler equationswith swirl away from the symmetric axis r = 0.

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The regularity or singularity questions of (1.1) are an outstanding open problem inthe mathematical fluidmechanics. Over the past few years, (1.1) has been studied extensivelyboth theoretically (see [1–6] and references therein) and numerically (see [7–9]). In particular,the local well-posedness and some blow-up criteria of (1.1) are established by Chae and Nam[3] in the Sobolev spaces, Liu et al. [5, 6] and Xiang [10] in the Besov spaces, and Cui et al. [11]in the Holder spaces. The purpose of this paper is to establish the local well-posedness forthe Boussineq equations (1.1) and to obtain a blow-up criterion of the smooth solutions in theframework of Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces, which contain the classical Triebel-Lizorkinspaces and Lorentz spaces. Indeed, it is more natural to consider the well-posedness in theTriebel-Lizorkin-type spaces than in the Besov spaces in the sense that Fs

p,2 = Ws,p for 1 < p <∞.

Before proceeding further, we mention several local well-posedness results for otherfluid equations in the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Recently, Chae [12] introduced a familytrajectory mapping {Xj(α, t)} satisfying

ddt

Xj(α, t) = Sj−2v(Xj(α, t), t

),

Xj(α, 0) = α,

(1.2)

where Sj−2 is a frequency projection to the ball {ξ ∈ R2| | ξ| � 2j} and used the following

equivalent relation:

∥∥∥2js∥∥Δjθ

(Xj(α, t), t

)∥∥Lq(Z)

∥∥∥Lp(dα)

∼∥∥∥2js

∥∥Δjθ(x, t)∥∥

Lq(Z)

∥∥∥Lp(dx)

= ‖θ(t)‖Fsp,q, (1.3)

to estimate the frequency-localized solutions of the Euler equations in the Triebel-Lizorkinspaces. However, it seems difficult to give a strict proof for (1.3)-type equivalent relation dueto the lack of the uniform change of the coordinates independent of j. To avoid this trouble,Chen et al. [13] introduced a particle trajectory mapping X(α, t) independent of j defined by

ddt

X(α, t) = v(X(α, t), t),

X(α, 0) = α,

(1.4)

and then they established a new commutator estimate to obtain the local well-posedness ofthe ideal MHD equations in the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces.

In this paper, we will adapt the method of Chen et al. [13] to establish the localwell-posedness and to obtain a blow-up criterion of the smooth solutions for the Boussineqequations (1.1) in the framework of Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces. Precisely, we first definethe particle trajectory mapping X(α, t) by (1.4). Then to show the well-posedness in thenew framework, we have to establish the commutator estimate (Proposition 2.5) and theproduct estimate (Proposition 2.6). For the blow-up criterion, we also need the logarithmicinequality (Proposition 2.7). Fortunately, these preliminary estimates and inequalities havebeen obtained in our recent work [14].

Our main results can be formulated in the following way.

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Theorem 1.1. (i) Local Existence. Let 1 < r ≤ p < ∞, 1 < q < ∞, and s > d/p + 1. If (u0, θ0) ∈(Fs,r

p,q(Rd))d+1, then there exists T1 = T1(‖u0‖Fs,rp,q, ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q) > 0 such that the Boussinesq equation (1.1)

has a unique solution (u, θ) ∈ (C([0, T1];Fs,rp,q(Rd)))d+1.

(ii) Blow-Up Criterion. The local-in-time solution (u, θ) ∈ (C([0, T1];Fs,rp,q(Rd)))d+1 con-

structed in (i) blows up at finite time T ∗ > T1, that is,

lim supt→ T∗−

(‖u(t)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q

)= ∞, (1.5)

if and only if

∫T∗

0

(‖u(t)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(t)‖F1∞,∞

)dt = ∞. (1.6)

Remark 1.2. In case θ0 ≡ 0, we have θ ≡ 0 and thus get the local well-posedness and blow-up criterion for the incompressible Euler equations in the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces,which generalize the corresponding results in [12] because of Fs,p

p,q = Fsp,q. For general θ0, we

also extend the results of [3] from Sobolev spaces to Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces.

Remark 1.3. For the MHD equations, we can also generalize the local well-posedness andblow-up criterion of [13] from the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces to the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentzspaces by using similar arguments.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We state some preliminaries on func-tional settings in Section 2 and then prove the local well-posedness and blow-up criterion inSection 3.

2. Preliminaries

In this section, we give some definitions and basic estimates (see [14, 15] for details). First ofall, we let S(Rd) be the Schwartz class of rapidly decreasing functions. For a fixed radiallysymmetric bump function χ ∈ C∞

0 (B(0, 4/3)) with value 1 over the ball B(0, 3/4), we setϕ(ξ) := χ(ξ/2) − χ(ξ) and then have the following dyadic partition of unity:

χ(ξ) +∑

j≥0ϕ(2−j ξ

)= 1, ξ ∈ R

d,

j∈Z

ϕ(2−j ξ

)= 1, ξ ∈ R

d \ {0}.(2.1)

The frequency localization operators Δj and Sj can be defined as follows:

Δju := ϕ(2−jD

)u = F−1

(ϕ(2−j ·

)F(u)

)= 2jd

(F−1ϕ

(2j ·

))∗ u, j ∈ Z,

Sju :=∑

j ′≤j−1Δj ′u = χ

(2−jD

)u = 2jd

(F−1χ

(2j ·

))∗ u, j ∈ Z,

(2.2)

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where F is the Fourier transform and D is the Fourier multiplier with symbol |ξ|. Thefrequency localization operators Δj and Sj have nice almost orthogonal properties in L2:

ΔjΔj ′u ≡ 0, if∣∣j − j ′

∣∣ ≥ 2, Δj

(Sj ′−1uΔj ′v

) ≡ 0, if∣∣j − j ′

∣∣ ≥ 5 (2.3)

for any u, v ∈ S′(Rd).Next we recall several function spaces used in this paper. The first one is the Triebel-

Lizorkin spaces. For s ∈ R, (p, q) ∈ [1,+∞) × [1,+∞], we define the homogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin spaces Fs

p,q(Rd) as the set of tempered distributions u ∈ S′/P(Rd) such that

‖u‖Fsp,q(Rd) :=

∥∥∥∥∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δju

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp(Rd)

< ∞, (2.4)

where P is the polynomial space. Then for s > 0, (p, q) ∈ [1,+∞) × [1,+∞], we can define theinhomogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin spaces Fs

p,q(Rd) as the set of tempered distributions u such

that

‖u‖Fsp,q(Rd) := ‖u‖Lp(Rd) + ‖u‖Fs

p,q(Rd) < ∞. (2.5)

The inhomogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin spaces Fsp,q are Banach spaces with norms ‖ · ‖Fs

p,q.

The second one is the Lorentz spaces. Let u∗(τ) be the distribution function of a functionu(x) and let u∗(t) be its nonincreasing rearrangement, that is,

u∗(τ) = meas{x | |u(x)| > τ}, u∗(τ) = inf{τ > 0 | u∗(τ) ≤ t}. (2.6)

Then for 1 < p, r < ∞, the Lorentz spaces Lp,r(Rd) are defined as the set of those measurablefunctions u satisfying

‖u‖Lp,r =(r

p

∫∞

0

(t1/pu∗∗(t)

)r dtt

)1/r

< ∞, (2.7)

where u∗∗(t) := (1/t)∫ t0 u

∗(s)ds is the average rearrangement. The Lorentz spaces Lp,r areBanach spaces with norms ‖ · ‖Lp,r . Since u∗(τ) is nonincreasing in τ , it is easy to verify thatthe following equivalent characterization holds:

‖u‖Lp,r ∼∥∥∥2ju

1/p∗

(2j)∥∥∥

lr. (2.8)

Moreover, it is well known that there exist 1 ≤ p1 and p2 < ∞ such that Lp,r are theinterpolations spaces between Lp1 and Lp2 . Thus we can deduce the following basic fact,which is standard in the usual Lp spaces.

Lemma 2.1. Assume u ∈ Lp,r for 1 < p, r < ∞. If X : α → X(α) is a volume-preserving diffeo-morphism, then

‖u(α)‖Lp,r = ‖u(X(α))‖Lp,r . (2.9)

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The last one is called the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces and is introduced recently byYang et al. [16] to unify the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and the Lorentz spaces.

Definition 2.2. For s ∈ R and 1 < p, q, r < ∞, a distribution u ∈ S′ is said to be in the homoge-neous Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces Fs,r

p,q(Rd) if∥∥∥∥∥∥2k(

meas

{

x ∈ Rd |

∥∥∥2jS

∣∣Δju

∣∣∥∥∥lq

j (Z)> 2k

})1/p∥∥∥∥∥∥lrk(Z)

< ∞. (2.10)

Indeedwe can deduce that u ∈ Fs,rp,q(Rd) if and only if ‖‖2js|Δju|‖lq(Z)‖Lp,r

< ∞ by the equivalent

characterization (2.8) of Lorentz space Lp,r . Then Fsp,q(R

d) � Fs,pp,q(Rd) and Lp,r(Rd) � F0,r

p,2(Rd)

(see [16, Theorem 5]). For s > 0, the inhomogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces Fs,rp,q(Rd)

are defined by

Fs,rp,q

(R

d)= Lp,r ∩ Fs,r

p,q

(R

d)

(2.11)

with norm

‖u‖Fs,rp,q(Rd) = ‖u‖Lp,r + ‖u‖Fs,r

p,q(Rd). (2.12)

Clearly, Fs,rp,q(Rd) is a Banach space. It has been proved that there exist 1 < p1 and p2 < ∞

such that Fs,rp,q(Rd) are the interpolation spaces between Fs

p1,q(Rd) and Fs

p2,q(Rd) (see [16,

Theorem 6]). Thus by the boundedness of Riesz transform on the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces(see Frazier et al. [17])we have the following.

Lemma 2.3. Riesz transform is bounded from the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz space Fs,rp,q(Rd) into itself.

Also by Lp,r ↪→ Lp for r ≤ p, we have the following Sobolev’s embedding theorem:

Fs,rp,q ↪→ F

s,pp,q = Fs

p,q ↪→ L∞, for s >d

p. (2.13)

The following lemma is referred as Bernstein’s inequality, which describes the wayderivatives act on spectrally localized functions.

Lemma 2.4 (Bernstein’s inequality). Let 1 < p, r < ∞, and u ∈ Lp,r(Rd). Then

suppF(u) ⊂{ξ ∈ R

d : |ξ| ∼ 2j}=⇒ ‖∂αu‖Lp,r ∼ 2j|α|‖u‖Lp,r . (2.14)

Here and thereafter, we use A � B and A ∼ B to denote A ≤ CB and cB ≤ A ≤ CB for someconstants C > c > 0, respectively. Thus Bernstein’s inequality together with the Littlewood-Paley decomposition gives that

‖∂αu‖Fs,rp,q

∼ ‖u‖Fs+|α|,rp,q

, 1 < p, r < ∞ (2.15)

for any u ∈ Fs+|α|,rp,q (Rd).

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To conclude this section, we recall three important propositions in the Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces, which will be frequently used in the proof of Theorem 1.1. For their proofs,we refer to our recent work [14] (for the case in the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces, see also Chae[12] and Chen et al. [13]). The first one is related to the product estimates.

Proposition 2.5. Let 1 < p, q, r < ∞. There exists a constant C > 0 such that for s > 0

‖uθ‖Fs,rp,q

≤ C(‖u‖L∞‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ‖L∞‖u‖Fs,r

p,q

), (2.16)

and for s > −1

‖uθ‖Fs,rp,q

≤ C(‖u‖L∞‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ‖L∞‖u‖Fs,r

p,q

), (2.17)

as long as the right-hand sides of (2.16) and (2.17) are finite.

The next one concerns the commutator estimates.

Proposition 2.6. Let s > 0, 1 < p, q, r < ∞, and let the vector field v be divergence free. There existsa constant C > 0 such that

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js([v,Δj

] · ∇θ)∥∥∥

lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

≤ C(‖∇v‖L∞‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖∇θ‖L∞‖v‖Fs,r

p,q

), (2.18)

∥∥∥∥∥∥∥2js

([v,Δj

] · ∇θ)∥∥∥

lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

≤ C(‖∇v‖L∞‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ‖L∞‖∇v‖Fs,r

p,q

), (2.19)

as long as the right-hand sides of (2.18) and (2.19) are finite.

The last one is the logarithmic Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz inequality with featuressimilar to the classical logarithmic Sobolev inequality [18] and to the logarithmic Triebel-Lizorkin inequality [12].

Proposition 2.7. Let 1 < r ≤ p < ∞, 1 < q < ∞, and s > d/p. There exists a constant C > 0 suchthat

‖u‖L∞ ≤ C(1 + ‖u‖F0∞,∞

(log+‖u‖Fs,r

p,q+ 1

)). (2.20)

3. Proof of Theorem 1.1

In this section, we prove the local well-posedness of solutions to (1.1) by constructing thesuccessive approximations and using the a priori estimate and establish the blow-up criterionof smooth solutions by the logarithmic Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz inequality. The proof isdivided into five steps.

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Step 1 (a priori estimate). For a given fluid velocity u(x, t), we let X(α, t) be the particle-trajectory mapping defined by the solutions of the following ordinary differential equations:

ddt

X(α, t) = u(X(α, t), t),

X(α, 0) = α.

(3.1)

Then from the Boussinesq equations (1.1) and the ODEs (3.1), we have

ddt

u(X(α, t), t) = −∇p(X(α, t), t) + θ(X(α, t), t)ed,

ddt

θ(X(α, t), t) = 0,

u(X(α, 0), 0) = u0(α), θ(X(α, 0), 0) = θ0(α),

(3.2)

from which we get

u(X(α, t), t) = u0(α) −∫ t

0∇p(X(ατ), τ)dτ +

∫ t

0θ(X(α, τ), τ) eddτ,

θ(X(α, t), t) = θ0(α).

(3.3)

It follows from divu = 0 that the mapping α → X(α, t) is a volume-preserving diffeomor-phism for any given t > 0. Thus by Lemma 2.1 we have

‖u(t)‖Lp,r + ‖θ(t)‖Lp,r

= ‖u(X(α, t), t)‖Lp,r + ‖θ(X(α, t), t)‖Lp,r

≤ ‖u0‖Lp,r + ‖θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0

∥∥∇p(X(α, τ), τ)∥∥Lp,rdτ +

∫ t

0‖θ(X(α, τ), τ)‖Lp,rdτ

= ‖u0‖Lp,r + ‖θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0

∥∥∇p(τ)∥∥Lp,rdτ +

∫ t

0‖θ(τ)‖Lp,rdτ.

(3.4)

To deal with the pressure term, we take the divergence on both sides of (1.1)1 and then obtainthe representation of the pressure:

p = (−Δ)−1∂iuj∂jui − (−Δ)−1∂dθ = (−Δ)−1∂i∂j(uiuj

) − (−Δ)−1∂dθ, (3.5)

where we used the Einstein convention on the summation over repeated indices and the factthat divu = 0. Thus by the boundedness of Riesz transform on Lp,r , we have

∥∥∇p(τ)∥∥Lp,r ≤

∥∥∥∇(−Δ)−1∂i∂j(uiuj

)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥∇(−Δ)−1∂dθ(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

� ‖u · ∇u(τ)‖Lp,r + ‖θ(τ)‖Lp,r

≤ ‖u(τ)‖Lp,r‖∇u(τ)‖∞ + ‖θ(τ)‖Lp,r .

(3.6)

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Substituting the last inequality into (3.4), we obtain

‖u(t)‖Lp,r + ‖θ(t)‖Lp,r � ‖u0‖Lp,r + ‖θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0‖u(τ)‖Lp,r‖∇u(τ)‖∞dτ +

∫ t

0‖θ(τ)‖Lp,rdτ. (3.7)

On the other hand, we apply the frequency projectionΔj to both sides of (1.1) to obtain

∂tΔju + u · ∇Δju =[u,Δj

] · ∇u − ∇Δjp + Δjθed,

∂tΔjθ + u · ∇Δjθ =[u,Δj

] · ∇θ.(3.8)

Then by (3.1), we have

ddt

Δju(X(α, t), t) =[u,Δj

] · ∇u(X(α, t), t) − ∇Δjp(X(α, t), t) + Δjθ(X(α, t), t)ed,

ddt

Δjθ(X(α, t), t) =[u,Δj

] · ∇θ(X(α, t), t).(3.9)

Integrating the previous two equations from 0 to t gives

Δju(X(α, t), t) + Δjθ(X(α, t), t)

= Δju0(α) + Δjθ0(α) +∫ t

0

([u,Δj

] · ∇u(X(α, τ), τ) +[u,Δj

] · ∇θ(X(α, τ), τ))dτ

−∫ t

0∇Δjp(X(α, τ), τ)dτ +

∫ t

0θ(X(α, τ), τ)eddτ.

(3.10)

We first multiply both sides by 2js, take the lq(Z) norm, and then use Minkowski’s inequalityto obtain

∥∥∥2js∣∣Δju(X(α, t), t)

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

+∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δjθ(X(α, t), t)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

≤∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δju0(α)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

+∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δjθ0(α)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

+∫ t

0

(∥∥∥2js∣∣[u,Δj

] · ∇u(X(α, τ), τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

+∥∥∥2js

∣∣[u,Δj

] · ∇θ(X(α, τ), τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

)dτ

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥2js∣∣∇Δjp(X(α, τ), τ)

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥2js|θ(X(α, τ), τ)|∥∥∥lq(Z)

dτ,

(3.11)

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and then we take the Lp,r norm with respect to α and use Minkowski’s inequality to get

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δju(X(α, t), t)

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js

∣∣Δjθ(X(α, t), t)

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

≤ ‖u0‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js

∣∣[u,Δj

] · ∇u(X(α, τ), τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥∥∥∥2js

∣∣[u,Δj

] · ∇θ(X(α, τ), τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js

∣∣∇Δjp(X(α, τ), τ)

∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js|θ(X(α, τ), τ)|

∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

dτ.

(3.12)

Recalling the fact that α → X(α, t) is a volume-preserving diffeomorphism for any givent > 0 and using Lemma 2.1, we have

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q� ‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js∣∣[u,Δj

] ·∇u(τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2js∣∣[u,Δj

] ·∇θ(τ)∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∫ t

0

∥∥∇p(τ)∥∥Fs,rp,qdτ +

∫ t

0‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,qdτ.

(3.13)

Thanks to the commutator estimates (2.18), the integrand in the first integral is dominated by

‖∇u(τ)‖L∞‖u(τ)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖∇u(τ)‖L∞‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q, (3.14)

and thus

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q� ‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q+∫ t

0

∥∥∇p(τ)∥∥Fs,rp,qdτ

+∫ t

0(1 + ‖∇u(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞)

(‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q

)dτ.

(3.15)

For the term related to the pressure, we use (3.5) to obtain

∂k∂lp = ∂k∂l(−Δ)−1∂iuj∂jui − ∂k∂l(−Δ)−1∂dθ := RkRl

(∂iuj∂jui

) − RkRl(∂dθ), (3.16)

where Rk and Rl are Riesz transform, and then

∥∥∇p∥∥Fs,rp,q

≤ ∥∥∂k∂lp∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

≤ ∥∥∂iuj∂jui

∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+ ‖∂dθ‖Fs−1,rp,q

≤ ‖u‖Fs,rp,q‖∇u‖ + ‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q, (3.17)

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where we used the boundedness of Riesz transform on Fs,rp,q and the product estimate (2.16).

Substituting the last inequality into (3.15), we have

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q

� ‖u0‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q+∫ t

0

(1 + ‖∇u(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞

)(‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q

)dτ.

(3.18)

This together with Gronwall’s inequality gives the a priori estimates in the homogeneousTriebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz spaces:

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q≤ C

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)exp

(

C

∫ t

0(1 + ‖∇v(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞)dτ

)

.

(3.19)

Similarly, by (3.7) and (3.18), we get

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q

� ‖u0‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q+∫ t

0

(1 + ‖∇u(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞

)(‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q

)dτ,

(3.20)

and thus Gronwall’s inequality yields the a priori estimates in the inhomogeneous spaces:

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q≤ C

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)exp

(

C

∫ t

0(1 + ‖∇u(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞)dτ

)

.

(3.21)

Step 2 (approximate solutions and uniform estimates). In order to construct the approximatesolutions of (1.1), we first set (u(0), θ(0)) = (0, 0) and then define {(u(n), θ(n))}n∈N

as thesolutions of the linear equations:

∂tu(n+1) + u(n) · ∇u(n+1) +∇p(n+1) = θ(n+1)ed, in R

d × (0,∞),

∂tθ(n+1) + u(n) · ∇θ(n+1) = 0, in R

d × (0,∞),

divu(n) = 0, in Rd × (0,∞),

(3.22)

with initial data u(n+1)(x, 0) = u(n+1)0 (x) := Sn+2u0(x), θ(n+1)(x, 0) = θ

(n+1)0 (x) := Sn+2θ0(x).

For each n ∈ N, similar to Step 1, we let the particle-trajectory mapping X(n)(α, t) bethe solution of the following ordinary differential equation:

ddt

X(n)(α, t) = u(n)(X(n)(α, t), t

),

X(n)(α, 0) = α.

(3.23)

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Then following the same procedure of estimate leading to (3.20), we obtain

∥∥∥u(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

� ‖Sn+2u0‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖Sn+2θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥L∞

)

×(∥∥∥u(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)dτdτ.

+∫ t

0

(∥∥∥∇u(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥L∞

+∥∥∥∇θ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥L∞

)∥∥∥u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

.

(3.24)

Note that

‖Sn+2u0‖Fs,rp,q

≤ ‖u0‖Fs,rp,q, ‖Sn+2θ0‖Fs,r

p,q≤ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q. (3.25)

This together with Sobolev embedding theorem Fs−1,rp,q ↪→ L∞ for s − 1 > d/p yields that

∥∥∥u(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

� ‖u0‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)(∥∥∥u(n+1)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)dτ.

(3.26)

It follows from Gronwall’s inequality that

∥∥∥u(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

≤ C(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)exp

(

C

∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)dτ

)

(3.27)

for some C > 0 independent of n. Choosing T0 := T0(‖u0‖Fs,rp,q, ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q) > 0 such that

C(1 + 2C‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ 2C‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)T0 ≤ log 2, (3.28)

and using the standard induction arguments, we obtain for any n ∈ N0

sup0≤t≤T0

(∥∥∥u(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)≤ 2C

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

). (3.29)

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Step 3 (existence). To prove the local existence, we show that there exists T1 ∈ (0, T0] inde-

pendent of n such that (u(n), θ(n)) is a Cauchy sequence in (C([0, T1];Fs−1,rp,q (Rd)))

d+1. For this

purpose, we denote

δu(n+1) := u(n+1) − u(n), δθ(n+1) := θ(n+1) − θ(n), δp(n+1) := p(n+1) − p(n). (3.30)

It follows that (δu(n+1), δθ(n+1), δp(n+1)) satisfies the following:

∂tδu(n+1) + u(n) · ∇δu(n+1) +∇δp(n+1) = −δu(n) · ∇u(n) + δθ(n+1)ed, in R

d × (0,∞),

∂tδθ(n+1) + u(n) · ∇δθ(n+1) = −δu(n) · ∇θ(n), in R

d × (0,∞),

divu(n) = 0, in Rd × (0,∞),

δu(n+1)(x, 0) = Δn+1u0(x), δθ(n+1)(x, 0) = Δn+1θ0(x), in Rd.

(3.31)

Since X(n)(α, t) is a solution of the ordinary differential equations (3.23), we have

ddt

δu(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)= −δu(n) · ∇u(n)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)− ∇δp(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)

+δθ(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)ed,

ddt

δθ(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)= −δu(n) · ∇θ(n)

(X(n)(α, t), t

).

(3.32)

Integrating the previous equations on [0, t], we have

δu(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)+ δθ(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)

= Δn+1u0(α) + Δn+1θ0(α) −∫ t

0δu(n) · ∇

(u(n) + θ(n)

)(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ

−∫ t

0∇δp(n+1)

(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ +

∫ t

0δθ(n+1)

(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)eddτ.

(3.33)

Similar to Step 1, we take the Lp,r norm on both sides, use Minkowski’s inequality andHolder’s inequality in Lorentz spaces, and then obtain

∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Lp,r

� ‖Δn+1u0‖Lp,r + ‖Δn+1θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n) · ∇(u(n) + θ(n)

)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∇δp(n+1)∥∥∥Lp,r

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)∥∥∥Lp,r

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� ‖Δn+1u0‖Lp,r + ‖Δn+1θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n)

∥∥∥Lp,r

(∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥∞+∥∥∥∇θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥L∞

)dτ

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥L∞

)(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

)dτ

� ‖Δn+1u0‖Lp,r + ‖Δn+1θ0‖Lp,r +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n)

∥∥∥Lp,r

(∥∥∥u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)dτ

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥u(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Lp,r

)dτ,

(3.34)

where we used Fs−1,rp,q ↪→ L∞ for s − 1 > d/p in the last inequality.

Next, we apply Δj to the first equation of (3.31) to obtain

∂tΔjδu(n+1) + u(n) · ∇Δjδu

(n+1) =[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δu(n+1) −Δj

(δu(n) · ∇u(n)

)

− ∇Δjδp(n+1) + Δjδθ

(n+1)ed,

∂tΔjδθ(n+1) + u(n) · ∇Δjδθ

(n+1) =[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δθ(n+1) −Δj

(δu(n) · ∇θ(n)

).

(3.35)

It follows from the definition of X(n)(α, t) that

ddt

Δjδu(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)=[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δu(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)

−Δj

(δu(n) · ∇u(n)

)(X(n)(α, t), t

)

− ∇Δjδp(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)+ Δjδθ

(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)ed,

ddt

Δjδθ(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)=[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δθ(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)

−Δj

(δu(n) · ∇θ(n)

)(X(n)(α, t), t

).

(3.36)

Integrating the previous equations on [0, t] yields

Δjδu(n+1)

(X(n)(α, t), t

)+ Δjδθ

(n+1)(X(n)(α, t), t

)

= ΔjΔn+1u0(α) + ΔjΔn+1θ0(α) +∫ t

0

[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δu(n+1)

(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ

+∫ t

0

[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δθ(n+1)

(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ −

∫ t

0Δj

(δu(n) · ∇u(n)

)(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ

−∫ t

0Δj

(δu(n) · ∇θ(n)

)(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ −

∫ t

0∇Δjδp

(n+1)(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)dτ

+∫ t

0Δjδθ

(n+1)(X(n)(α, τ), τ

)eddτ.

(3.37)

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Then following the similar procedure of estimate leading to (3.20), we get

∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

� ‖Δn+1u0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+ ‖Δn+1θ0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥

∥∥∥2j(s−1)

∣∣∣[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δu(n+1)(τ)

∣∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥∥∥∥∥2j(s−1)

∣∣∣[u(n),Δj

]· ∇δθ(n+1)(τ)

∣∣∣∥∥∥lq(Z)

∥∥∥∥Lp,r

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n) · ∇u(n)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n) · ∇θ(n)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥∇δp(n+1)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

dτ +∫ t

0

∥∥∥δθ(n+1)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

� ‖Δn+1u0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+ ‖Δn+1θ0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)∥∥∥∞

)(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)dτ

+∫ t

0

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(τ)∥∥∥∞+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥∞

)∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n)(τ)∥∥∥∞

(∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥∇θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)dτ

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

(∥∥∥∇u(n)(τ)∥∥∥∞+∥∥∥∇θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥∞

)dτ,

(3.38)

where we used the commutator estimates (2.19) and the product estimates (2.16) in lastinequality. This together with (3.34), Sobolev embedding theorem, and the boundedness ofRiesz transform gives that

∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

� ‖Δn+1u0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+ ‖Δn+1θ0‖Fs−1,rp,q

+∫ t

0

(1 +

∥∥∥u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)dτ

+∫ t

0

∥∥∥δu(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

(∥∥∥u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)dτ

� 2−(n+1)(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)

+ T1

(

1 + supt∈[0,T1]

∥∥∥u(n)(t)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)

supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)

+ T1 supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥u(n)(τ)∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

+∥∥∥θ(n)(τ)

∥∥∥Fs,rp,q

)sup

t∈[0,T1]

∥∥∥δu(n)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

.

(3.39)

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It follows from the uniform bounds (3.29) that

supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)

≤ C2−(n+1)(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)+ CT1 sup

t∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)

+ CT1 supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

).

(3.40)

If we choose T1 small enough such that CT1 ≤ 1/2, then

supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)

≤ C2−(n+1)(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)+ 2CT1 sup

t∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

).

(3.41)

By the standard induction arguments, we obtain

supt∈[0,T1]

(∥∥∥δu(n+1)(t)∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

+∥∥∥δθ(n+1)(t)

∥∥∥Fs−1,rp,q

)≤ 2C2−n

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

), (3.42)

which implies that (u(n)(x, t), θ(n)(x, t)) is a Cauchy sequence in (C([0, T1];Fs−1,rp,q ))

d+1with

T1 ≤ min{T0, 1/2C}. Thus u(n)(x, t) → u(x, t) and θ(n)(x, t) → θ(x, t) in (C([0, T1];Fs,rp,q))

d+1

as n → ∞. From (3.22) and the uniform estimates (3.29), we have actually (u(x, t), θ(x, t)) ∈(C([0, T1];F

s,rp,q))

d+1 solving the Boussinesq equation (1.1).

Step 4 (uniqueness). To get the uniqueness we closely follow the arguments in last step.Assume that (u, θ) and (u, θ) are two solutions of the Boussinesq equations (1.1) with thesame initial data (u0, θ0) in the class L∞([0, T1];F

s,rp,q(Rd)). Denote

δu := u − u, δθ := θ − θ, δp := p − p. (3.43)

Then it follows that δθ satisfies the following:

∂tδu + u · ∇δu +∇δp = −δu · ∇u + δθed, in Rd × (0, T1),

∂tδθ + u · ∇δθ = −δu · ∇θ, in Rd × (0, T1),

div u = 0, in Rd × (0, T1),

δu(x, 0) = 0, δθ(x, 0) = 0, in Rd.

(3.44)

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We follow the strategy used to derive (3.40) to obtain

supt∈[0,T]

(‖δu(t)‖Fs−1,r

p,q+ ‖δθ(t)‖Fs−1,r

p,q

)≤ CT sup

t∈[0,T]

(‖δu(t)‖Fs−1,r

p,q+ ‖δθ(t)‖Fs−1,r

p,q

)(3.45)

for any T ≤ T1. Whenever T is small enough such that CT < 1, we have δu(x, t) ≡ δθ(x, t) ≡ 0for any t ≤ T , that is, u(x, t) ≡ u(x, t) and θ(x, t) ≡ θ(x, t). By using the standard continuityargument, we see u(x, t) ≡ u(x, t) and θ(x, t) ≡ θ(x, t) for any t ≤ T1.

Step 5 (blow-up criterion). By the a priori estimate (3.21), we only need to dominate ‖∇u‖∞and ‖∇θ‖∞. Indeed, it follows from the logarithmic Triebel-Lizorkin-Lorentz inequality (2.20)with s − 1 > d/p that

‖∇u‖L∞ � 1 + ‖∇u‖F0∞,∞

(log+‖∇u‖Fs−1,r

p,q+ 1

)� 1 + ‖u‖F1∞,∞

(log+‖u‖Fs,r

p,q+ 1

),

‖∇θ‖L∞ � 1 + ‖∇θ‖F0∞,∞

(log+‖∇θ‖Fs−1,r

p,q+ 1

)� 1 + ‖θ‖F1∞,∞

(log+‖θ‖Fs,r

p,q+ 1

).

(3.46)

Thus, the a priori estimate (3.21) gives that

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q≤ C

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)exp

(

C

∫ t

0

(‖u(τ)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(τ)‖F1∞,∞

)

×(log+

(‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q

)+ 1

)dτ

)

.

(3.47)

By using Gronwall’s inequality, we have

‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q≤ C

(‖u0‖Fs,r

p,q+‖θ0‖Fs,r

p,q

)exp

(

C exp

(

C

∫ t

0

(‖u(τ)‖F1∞,∞+‖θ(τ)‖F1∞,∞

)dτ

))

.

(3.48)

Thus if lim supt→ T∗−(‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q) = ∞, then

∫T∗

0 (‖u(t)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(t)‖F1∞,∞)dt = ∞.On the other hand, it follows from Sobolev embedding Fs,r

p,q ↪→ W1,∞ ↪→ F1∞,∞ for

s − 1 > d/p that

∫T∗

0

(‖u(t)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(t)‖F1∞,∞

)dt ≤ T ∗ sup

0≤τ≤T∗

(‖u(τ)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(τ)‖F1∞,∞

)

� T ∗ sup0≤τ≤T∗

(‖∇u(τ)‖L∞ + ‖∇θ(τ)‖L∞)

� T ∗ sup0≤τ≤T∗

(‖u(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q+ ‖θ(τ)‖Fs,r

p,q

).

(3.49)

Thus∫T∗

0 (‖u(t)‖F1∞,∞ + ‖θ(t)‖F1∞,∞)dt = ∞ implies lim supt→ T∗−(‖u(t)‖Fs,rp,q+ ‖θ(t)‖Fs,r

p,q) = ∞.

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Acknowledgments

This work was completed while the first author visited the Beijing Institute of AppliedPhysics and Computational Mathematics. He is very grateful to this institution for itshospitality and financial support and to Professor ChangxingMiao for his useful suggestions.Z. Xiang was partially supported by NNSF of China (11101068), the Sichuan Youth Science& Technology Foundation (2011JQ0003), the Fundamental Research Funds for the CentralUniversities (ZYGX2009X019), and by SRF for ROCS, SEM. W. Yan was partially supportedby NNSF of China (11071025), the Foundation of CAEP 2010A0202010, and the Foundationof LCP.

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