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Stationary solutions and nonuniqueness of weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in high dimensions

Analysis of PDEs 2019-03-27 v6

Abstract

Consider the unforced incompressible homogeneous Navier-Stokes equations on the dd-torus Td\mathbb{T}^d where d4d\geq 4 is the space dimension. It is shown that there exist nontrivial steady-state weak solutions uL2(Td)u\in L^{2}(\mathbb{T}^d). The result implies the nonuniqueness of finite energy weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in dimensions d4d \geq 4. And it also suggests that the uniqueness of forced stationary problem is likely to fail however smooth the given force is.

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@article{arxiv.1807.09318,
  title  = {Stationary solutions and nonuniqueness of weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in high dimensions},
  author = {Xiaoyutao Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09318},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

31 pages; removed an incorrect statement in proposition 3.4 and modified to accommodate the change