# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

doi: 10.3934/eect.2020078

## Conditional regularity for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in terms of the middle eigenvalue of the strain tensor

 Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education), School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China

* Corresponding author: Fan Wu

Received  April 2020 Revised  April 2020 Published  June 2020

In this paper, we consider the regularity criteria for the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations involving the middle eigenvalue ($\lambda_2$) of the strain tensor. It is proved that if $\lambda^+_2$ belongs to Multiplier space or Besov space, then the weak solution remains smooth on $[0, T]$, where $\lambda^{+}_2 = \max\{\lambda_2, 0\}$. These regularity conditions allows us to improve the result obtained by Miller [7].

Citation: Fan Wu. Conditional regularity for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in terms of the middle eigenvalue of the strain tensor. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, doi: 10.3934/eect.2020078
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##### References:
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