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Nonuniqueness of weak solutions for the transport equation at critical space regularity

Analysis of PDEs 2020-12-29 v4

Abstract

We consider the linear transport equations driven by an incompressible flow in dimensions d3d\geq 3. For divergence-free vector fields uLt1W1,qu \in L^1_t W^{1,q}, the celebrated DiPerna-Lions theory of the renormalized solutions established the uniqueness of the weak solution in the class LtLpL^\infty_t L^p when 1p+1q1\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} \leq 1. For such vector fields, we show that in the regime 1p+1q>1\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} > 1, weak solutions are not unique in the class Lt1Lp L^1_t L^p. One crucial ingredient in the proof is the use of both temporal intermittency and oscillation in the convex integration scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2004.09538,
  title  = {Nonuniqueness of weak solutions for the transport equation at critical space regularity},
  author = {Alexey Cheskidov and Xiaoyutao Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09538},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

30 pages; minor corrections per referee comments, to appear in annals of pde