Local existence for the non-resistive MHD equations in Besov spaces

Abstract

In this paper we prove the existence of solutions to the viscous, non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on the whole of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n=2,3$, for divergence-free initial data in certain Besov spaces, namely $\boldsymbol{u}_{0} \in B^{n/2-1}_{2,1}$ and $\boldsymbol{B}_{0} \in B^{n/2}_{2,1}$. The a priori estimates include the term $\int_{0}^{t} \| \boldsymbol{u}(s) \|_{H^{n/2}}^{2} \, \mathrm{d} s$ on the right-hand side, which thus requires an auxiliary bound in $H^{n/2-1}$. In 2D, this is simply achieved using the standard energy inequality; but in 3D an auxiliary estimate in $H^{1/2}$ is required, which we prove using the splitting method of Calder\'on (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 318(1), 179--200, 1990). By contrast, we prove that such solutions are unique in 3D, but the proof of uniqueness in 2D is more difficult and remains open.