A global bound on positive-time slabs #
This file proves lem:pv-positive-bound: under the critical hypothesis
u ∈ L^∞_t L³_x of thm:ess-global, a Leray–Hopf solution on ℝ³ × (0, T) is
essentially bounded on every slab ℝ³ × (δ, T), δ > 0. The local regularity
theorem thm:ess-local is assumed in the form of hE1.
The proof fixes the scale R = √δ and, around each point z of the slab, the
backward cylinder of radius R / 4 ending at min (z.2 + R² / 32, T), which
may end at the terminal time. Far from the origin the tails of |u|³ and of
|p|^{3/2} for the canonical pressure of thm:assoc-pressure make the
normalized energy small, and pv_epsilon_bound gives the bound C / R. On the
bounded part thm:ess-local gives local bounds, and a finite subcover of the
compact set closure B × [δ, T] makes them uniform.
A global bound on positive-time slabs, lem:pv-positive-bound.