Sharp nonuniqueness for the Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In this paper, we prove a sharp nonuniqueness result for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the periodic setting. In any dimension $d \geq 2$ and given any $ p<2$, we show the nonuniqueness of weak solutions in the class $L^{p}_t L^\infty$, which is sharp in view of the classical Ladyzhenskaya-Prodi-Serrin criteria. The proof is based on the construction of a class of non-Leray-Hopf weak solutions. More specifically, for any $ p<2$, $q<\infty$, and $\varepsilon>0$, we construct non-Leray-Hopf weak solutions $ u \in L^{p}_t L^\infty \cap L^1_t W^{1,q}$ that are smooth outside a set of singular times with Hausdorff dimension less than $\varepsilon$. As a byproduct, examples of anomalous dissipation in the class $L^{ {3}/{2} - \varepsilon}_t C^{ {1}/{3}} $ are given in both the viscous and inviscid case.