Ill-posedness for the Navier-Stokes equations in critical Besov spaces \(\dot{B}_{\infty, q}^{- 1}\) (Q471685)

This article represents an important contribution to the theory of Navier-Stokes equations. From the author's abstract: ``We study the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two and higher spatial dimension: \[ u_t - \Delta u + u\cdot \nabla u + \nabla p =0, \mathrm{div} \, u = 0; \;u(0,x)=\delta u_0(x). \] For arbitrarily small \(\delta >0\) we show that the solution map \(\delta u_0 \rightarrow u\) in critical Besov spaces \({\dot{B}}^{-1}_{\infty , q}\) (\(\forall q\in [1,2]\)) is discontinuous at the origin. It is known that the Navier-Stokes equation is globally well-posed for small data in \(BMO^{-1}\). Taking notice of the embedding \({\dot{B}}^{-1}_{\infty , q} \subset BMO^{-1}\) (\(q\leq 2\)), we see that for sufficiently small \(\delta >0\), \(u_0\in {\dot{B}}^{-1}_{\infty , q}\) (\(q\leq 2\)) can guaranty that the above problem has a unique global solution in \(BMO^{-1}\), however, this solution is unstable in \({\dot{B}}^{-1}_{\infty , q}\) and can have an inflation in \({\dot{B}}^{-1}_{\infty , q}\) for certain initial data.''