Global Low-Energy Weak Solutions of the Equations of Three-Dimensional Compressible Magnetohydrodynamics

We prove the global-in-time existence of weak solutions of the equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamics in three space dimensions with initial data small in L (2) and initial density positive and essentially bounded. A great deal of information concerning partial regularity is obtained: velocity, vorticity, and magnetic field become relatively smooth in positive time (H (1) but not H (2)) and singularities in the pressure cancel those in a certain multiple of the divergence of the velocity, thus giving concrete expression to conclusions obtained formally from the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions.