On the local well-posedness of fractionally dissipated primitive equations with transport noise
Ruimeng Hu, Quyuan Lin, Rongchang Liu
TL;DR
This work analyzes the 3D primitive equations with fractional dissipation and Stratonovich transport noise on $\mathbb{T}^3$, addressing local well-posedness in Sobolev spaces. The authors develop novel commutator estimates for the hydrostatic Leray projection to counterbalance the partial dissipation and noisy forcing, and they prove local existence and uniqueness of pathwise solutions in $\mathbb{H}^{\sigma}$ for $\sigma>3$ in the subcritical regime $s\in(1,2)$, with arbitrary data, and in the critical regime $s=1$ under smallness conditions. The proof combines Galerkin approximations, uniform energy bounds, compactness to obtain martingale solutions, and a double-cutoff technique to achieve pathwise uniqueness, yielding a maximal local solution. These results advance the mathematical understanding of stochastic geophysical flows with nonlocal dissipation and transport noise, highlighting the delicate balance between fractional dissipation and noise in 3D.
Abstract
We investigate the three-dimensional fractionally dissipated primitive equations with transport noise, focusing on subcritical and critical dissipation regimes characterized by $ (-Δ)^{s/2} $ with $ s \in (1,2)$ and $s = 1$, respectively. For $σ>3$, we establish the local existence of unique pathwise solutions in Sobolev space $H^σ$. This result applies to arbitrary initial data in the subcritical case ($s \in(1,2)$), and to small initial data in the critical case ($s=1$). The analysis is particularly challenging due to the loss of horizontal derivatives in the nonlinear terms and the lack of full dissipation. To address these challenges, we develop novel commutator estimates involving the hydrostatic Leray projection.
