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Non-uniqueness of weak solutions to 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations

Yachun Li·Zirong Zeng·Deng Zhang
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We prove the non-uniqueness of weak solutions to 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD for short) equations. The constructed weak solutions do not conserve the magnetic helicity and can be close to any given smooth, divergence-free and mean-free velocity and magnetic fields. Furthermore, we prove that the weak solutions constructed by Beekie-Buckmaster-Vicol [2] for the ideal MHD can be obtained as a strong vanishing viscosity and resistivity limit of a sequence of weak solutions to MHD equations. This shows that, in contrast to the weak ideal limits, Taylor's conjecture does not hold along the vanishing viscosity and resistivity limits. Unlike in the context of the NSE [13] and the ideal MHD [2], new types of velocity and magnetic flows, featuring both the refined spatial and temporal intermittency, are constructed to respect the geometry of MHD and to control the strong viscosity and resistivity. Compatible algebraic structure is derived in the convex integration scheme. More interestingly, the new intermittent flows indeed enable us to prove the aforementioned results for the hyper-viscous and hyper-resistive MHD equations up to the sharp exponent $5/4$, which coincides exactly with the Lions exponent for 3D hyper-viscous NSE.

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Yachun Li, Zirong Zeng, Deng Zhang. 2022-02-15. Non-uniqueness of weak solutions to 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10515

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