Remarks on the global regularity issue of the two and a half dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamics system

Abstract

Whether or not the solution to the $2\frac{1}{2}$-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamics system starting from smooth initial data preserves its regularity for all time remains a challenging open problem. Although the research direction on component reduction of regularity criterion for Navier-Stokes equations and magnetohydrodynamics system have caught much attention recently, the Hall term has presented much difficulty. In this manuscript we discover a certain cancellation within the Hall term and obtain various new regularity criterion: first, in terms of a gradient of only the third component of the magnetic field; second, in terms of only the third component of the current density; third, in terms of only the third component of the velocity field; fourth, in terms of only the first and second components of the velocity field. As another consequence of the cancellation that we discovered, we are able to prove the global well-posedness of the $2\frac{1}{2}$-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamics system with hyper-diffusion only for the magnetic field in the horizontal direction; we also obtained an analogous result in the 3-dimensional case via discovery of additional cancellations. These results extend and improve various previous works.