Local regularity of weak solutions of the hypodissipative Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract: We consider the 3D incompressible hypodissipative Navier-Stokes equations, when the dissipation is given as a fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta )<sup>s$ for $s\in (\frac34,1)$, and we provide a new bootstrapping scheme that makes it possible to analyse weak solutions locally in space-time. This includes several homogeneous Kato-Ponce type commutator estimates which we localize in space, and which seems applicable to other parabolic systems with fractional dissipation. We also provide a new estimate on the pressure, $$|(-\Delta)^s p |<em>{\mathcal{H}^1}\lesssim | (-\Delta )^{\frac s2} u |²</em>{L<sup>2}$$. We apply our main result to prove that any suitable weak solution $u$ satisfies $$\nablaⁿ u \in L^{p,\infty }_{\mathrm{loc}}(\mathbb{R}<sup>3\times(0,\infty))$$ for $p=\frac{2(3s-1)}{n+2s-1}$, $n=1,2$. As a corollary of our local regularity theorem, we improve the partial regularity result of Tang-Yu [Comm. Math. Phys., 334(30), 2015, pp. 1455--1482], and obtain an estimate on the box-counting dimension of the singular set $S$, $$d_B(S\cap {t\geq t_0 } )\leq \frac13 (15-2s-8s²⁾$$ for every $t_0&gt;0$.