A profile decomposition approach to the L^ _t(L^3_x) Navier-Stokes regularity criterion

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Abstract: In this paper we continue to develop an alternative viewpoint on recent studies of Navier-Stokes regularity in critical spaces, a program which was started in the recent work by C. Kenig and the second author (Ann Inst H Poincar'e Anal Non Lin'eaire 28(2):159-187, 2011). Specifically, we prove that strong solutions which remain bounded in the space L3(R3) do not become singular in finite time, a known result established by Escauriaza, Seregin and Sverak (Uspekhi Mat Nauk 58(2(350)):3-44, 2003) in the context of suitable weak solutions. Here, we use the method of "critical elements" which was recently developed by Kenig and Merle to treat critical dispersive equations. Our main tool is a "profile decomposition" for the Navier-Stokes equations in critical Besov spaces which we develop here. As a byproduct of this tool, assuming a singularity-producing initial datum for Navier-Stokes exists in a critical Lebesgue or Besov space, we show there is one with minimal norm, generalizing a result of Rusin and Sverak (J Funct Anal 260(3):879-891, 2011).


The authors prove that strong solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in \({\mathbb{R}}^3\) which are bounded in \(L^2({\mathbb{R}}^3)\) do not become singular in finite time. This result was established by \textit{L. Escauriaza} et al. [Russ. Math. Surv. 58, No. 2, 211--250 (2003); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 58, No. 2, 3--44 (2003; Zbl 1064.35134)] for weak solutions. Here, the method of ``critical elements (or minimal blow-up solutions) is used, as developed recently by C. E. Kenig and F. Merle. The main tool is a ``profile decomposition for the Navier-Stokes equations in critical Besov spaces.



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