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Sharp norm inflation for 3D Navier-Stokes equations in supercritical spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-14 v1

Abstract

We prove that the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations exhibit norm inflation in B˙p,qs(R3)\dot B^{s}_{p,q}(\mathbb{R}^3) with smooth, compactly supported initial data. Such norm inflation is shown in all supercritical B˙p,qs\dot B^{s}_{p,q} near the scaling-critical line s=1+3ps = -1+ \frac{3}{p} except at s=0s=0. The growth mechanism differs depending on the sign of the regularity index ss: forward energy cascade driven by mixing for s>0s>0 and backward energy cascade caused by un-mixing for s<0s<0. The construction also demonstrates arbitrarily large, finite-time growth of the vorticity, the first of such examples for the Navier-Stokes equations.

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@article{arxiv.2504.08288,
  title  = {Sharp norm inflation for 3D Navier-Stokes equations in supercritical spaces},
  author = {Xiaoyutao Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08288},
  year   = {2025}
}

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31 pages

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