The Hölder 1/2 a priori estimate conjecture for the Hilbert transport equation

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Let θ\theta be a bounded solution on [0,T][0,T] of

∂tθ+Hθ ∂xθ=0,\partial_t\theta+H\theta\,\partial_x\theta=0,

where HH is the Hilbert transform. The C1/2C^{1/2} Hölder seminorm measures the quotient ∣θ(t,x)−θ(t,y)∣/∣x−y∣1/2|\theta(t,x)-\theta(t,y)|/|x-y|^{1/2}. The Hölder 1/2 a priori estimate conjecture. There is a universal constant CC such that

sup⁡x,y∈Rθ(T,x)−θ(T,y)∣x−y∣1/2≤C∥θ∥L∞1/2∣x−y∣1/2T3/2.\sup_{x,y\in\mathbb R}\frac{\theta(T,x)-\theta(T,y)}{|x-y|^{1/2}}\leq \frac{C\|\theta\|_{L^\infty}^{1/2}|x-y|^{1/2}}{T^{3/2}}.

The conjecture is motivated by the exact cusp profile −∣x∣1/2−Ct-|x|^{1/2}-Ct and is intended to describe immediate Hölder regularization. The source also explains that vanishing-viscosity limits are expected to satisfy the same estimate, and that such an estimate would have consequences for critical and supercritical dissipative variants.

References

Primary source

Luis Silvestre and Vlad Vicol, “On a transport equation with nonlocal drift”, arXiv:1408.1056 (2014).

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