“…The problem of interaction between a viscous incompressible fluid and a rigid body has been studied intensively in the recent years (see [2], [4], [6], [7], [11], [15], [18], [19], [20], [21], etc.). However, as far as we know, only few results concerning the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the problem (1.1), (1.2), (1.4)-(1.10) are available in the case where the system fills the whole space.…”