Global well-posedness for an advection-diffusion equation arising in magneto-geostrophic dynamics

We use De Giorgi techniques to prove H"older continuity of weak solutions to a class of drift-diffusion equations, with $L^2$ initial data and divergence free drift velocity that lies in $L_t^{\mathrm{\infty }}BM{O}_x^{-1}$. We apply this result to prove global regularity for a family of active scalar equations which includes the advection-diffusion equation that has been proposed by Moffatt in the context of magnetostrophic turbulence in the Earth’s fluid core.