Global regularity and time decay for the SQG equation with anisotropic fractional dissipation

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the two-dimensional surface quasi-geostrophic equation with fractional horizontal dissipation and fractional vertical thermal diffusion. On the one hand, when the dissipation powers are restricted to a suitable range, the global regularity of the surface quasi-geostrophic equation is obtained by some anisotropic embedding and interpolation inequalities involving fractional derivatives. On the other hand, we obtain the optimal large time decay estimates for global weak solutions by an anisotropic interpolation inequality. Moreover, based on the argument adopted in establishing the global ${\dot{H}}^1$-norm of the solution, we obtain the optimal large time decay estimates for the above obtained global smooth solutions. Finally, the decay estimates for the difference between the full solution and the solution to the corresponding linear part are also derived.