Local estimates on two linear parabolic equations with singular coefficients (1905.13329v1)

Abstract: We treat the heat equation with singular drift terms and its generalization: the linearized Navier-Stokes system. In the first case, we obtain boundedness of weak solutions for highly singular, "supercritical" data. In the second case, we obtain regularity result for weak solutions with mildly singular data ( those in the Kato class). This not only extends some of the classical regularity theory in [AS], [CrZ] and others from the case of elliptic and heat equations to that of linearized Navier-Stokes equations but also proves an unexpected gradient estimate, which extends the recent interesting boundedness result [O]. In the addendum in May 2019, a missing term in Theorem 1.7 and Lemma 3.3 is added. This is due to the use of a formula in a cited reference, which omitted a term. The main conclusion that local solutions of certain linearized Navier-Stokes equation have bounded spatial gradient is intact. This includes bounded local Leray-Hopf solutions to the Navier Stokes equation without condition on the pressure.