We prove Lp-Lq estimates of the Oseen semigroup in n-dimensional exterior domains (n 3), which refine and improve those obtained by Kobayashi and Shibata [15]. As an application, we give a globally in time stability theory for the stationary Navier-Stokes flow whose velocity at infinity is a non-zero constant vector. We thus extend the result of Shibata [21]. In particular, we find an optimal rate of convergence of solutions of the non-stationary problem to those of the corresponding stationary problem. (2000). 35B40, 35M20, 73B30. Mathematics Subject Classification

Abstract. In this paper, we prove the R-sectoriality of the resolvent problem for the boundary value problem of the Stokes operator for the compressible viscous fluids in a general domain, which implies the generation of analytic semigroup and the maximal L p -L q regularity for the initial boundary value problem of the Stokes operator. Combining our linear theory with fixed point arguments in the Lagrangian coordinates, we have a local in time unique existence theorem in a general domain and a global in time unique existence theorem for some initial data close to a constant state in a bounded domain for the initial boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations describing the motion of compressible viscous fluids. All the results obtained in this paper were announced in Enomoto-Shibata [12].

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