Global well-posedness for inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations in endpoint critical Besov spaces (Q2219902): Difference between revisions

The authors are concerned with the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes system \begin{align*} &~&\rho_t+(u\cdot \nabla)\rho = 0, \ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n,\\ &~&\rho u_t-\mu\Delta u+\rho(u\cdot \nabla)u + \nabla P=0, \ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n,\\ &~& div \, u=0, \ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n,\\ &~&\rho (0,\cdot) = \rho_0, \ u(0, \cdot) = u_0, \nonumber \end{align*} where \(n\ge 2\), \( 0 < T\le \infty \), which describes the motion of a viscous incompressible flow. Global existence for the above initial value problem is proven for \(u_0 \in B_{q, \infty}^{-1+n/q}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) , \(n\le q<2n\), and \(\rho_0\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) positive away from zero, provided \(u_0\) and the initial density variation are ``small'' enough. The proof of the existence is done via an iterative scheme. If, in addition, \(u_0\) is a bit more regular (more precisely, \(u_0 \in B_{q, \infty}^{-1+n/q + \varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) with \(\varepsilon >0\) small), then the solution is unique. This is proved via a Lagrangian approach.