Non-Uniqueness of Smooth Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations from Critical Data

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in dimension three and construct initial data in the critical space $BM{O}^{-1}$ from which there exist two distinct global solutions, both smooth for all $t>0$. One consequence of this construction is the sharpness of the celebrated small data global well-posedness result of Koch and Tataru. This appears to be the first example of non-uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes equations with data at the critical regularity. The proof is based on a non-uniqueness mechanism proposed by the second author in the context of the dyadic Navier-Stokes equations.

54 pages, 1 figure. This new version makes a single change in the acknowledgments

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