Electron. J. Differential Equations, Vol. 2025 (2025), No. 101, pp. 1-17.

Global well-posedness of 3D inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal systems in critical Besov spaces with initial density perturbed around the equilibrium

Xinrui Wu, Xingyu Liang

Abstract:
In this article, we establish the existence of unique global solutions for three-dimensional inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal systems. Our analysis does not assume that the initial density \(\rho_0\) is endowed with any regularity, requiring only that the fluid density satisfy \(\|\rho_0-1\|_{L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^3)}\leq c\) for a sufficiently small constant \(c\). While the initial velocity \(u_0\) and the gradient of the initial molecular orientation \(\nabla \text{d}_0\) belong to the critical space \(\dot{B}^{-1+\frac{3}{p}}_{p,1}(\mathbb{R}^3)\). This work extends the result by Danchin and Wang [15] for the Navier-Stokes equations to the three-dimensional inhomogeneous nematic liquid crystal system.

Submitted July 18, 2025. Published October 27, 2025.
Math Subject Classifications: 35Q35, 76D03.
Key Words: Inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal; critical Besov spaces; maximal regularity estimates
DOI: 10.58997/ejde.2025.101

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Xinrui Wu
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Jiangxi Normal University
Nanchang 330022, China
email: xinruiwu2001@163.com
Xingyu Liang
School of Mathematics
Nanjing University
Nanjing 210093, China
email: xingyuliang2000@163.com

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