Decay rates for mild solutions of QGE with critical fractional dissipation in L 2 (R 2 )
Jamel BenameurAbstract
We investigate the long-time behavior of global mild solutions to the two-dimensional critical quasi-geostrophic equation with critical fractional dissipation in Sobolev–Gevrey spaces. A recent result by Melo, Rocha and dos Santos Costa establishes the decay of Gevrey–Sobolev norms under the additional assumption that the initial data possess a decay character
r
*(
θ
0
) ∈ (−1,
∞
). In the present paper, we show that this assumption is, in fact, unnecessary. Our approach is based on a new analysis of the
L
2
-asymptotic behavior of global solutions. Instead of relying on the decay characterization of the associated linear semigroup, we prove directly that every global solution satisfies