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Some Liouville-Type Results for the 3D Incompressible MHD Equations

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In this paper, we investigate some Liouville-type properties for the stationary incompressible MHD equations in three dimensions. Liouville-type properties are concerned with the uniqueness of trivial solutions to the stationary MHD equations. We show that the velocity field u and the magnetic field b are vanishing provided that \( u \in {BMO}^{-1}({\mathbb {R}}^3) \) and \( b\in L^{p,\infty }({\mathbb {R}}^3)\) with \(2 < p \le 6\). Moreover, we also prove that if

then u and b are vanishing for the stationary 3D MHD equations with partial viscosity and partial diffusivity.

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The authors thank the reviewers for their helpful comments on the initial manuscript. The second author was partially supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20201478) and Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Universities.

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Wang, P., Guo, Z. Some Liouville-Type Results for the 3D Incompressible MHD Equations. J Geom Anal 34, 39 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-023-01480-x

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