Spatial decay/asymptotics in the Navier-Stokes equation

Abstract

We discuss the appearance of spatial asymptotic expansions of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation on ${\mathbb{R}}^n$. In particular, we prove that the Navier-Stokes equation is locally well-posed in a class of weighted Sobolev and asymptotic spaces. The solutions depend analytically on the initial data and time and (generically) develop non-trivial asymptotic terms as $|x|\to \infty$. In addition, the solutions have a spatial smoothing property that depends on the order of the asymptotic expansion.