Sharp one component regularity for Navier-Stokes

TL;DR

This paper extends the regularity criteria for 3D Navier-Stokes solutions based on one component projections, covering the previously unresolved case where the integrability exponent p is between 2 and 4.

Contribution

It establishes regularity results for Navier-Stokes solutions when the integrability exponent p is in [2,4], completing the range of known criteria.

Findings

Proves regularity for p in [2,4] under one component conditions.

Extends previous results to include the case p in [2,4].

Proof also applies to p in (4,∞).

Abstract

We consider the conditional regularity of mild solution $v$ to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions. Let $e \in \mathbb{S}^2$ and $0 < T^\ast < \infty$. J. Chemin and P. Zhang \cite{CP} proved the regularity of $v$ on $(0,T^\ast]$ if there exists $p \in (4, 6)$ such that $$\int_0^{T^\ast}\|v\cdot e\|^p_{\dot{H}^{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{2}{p}}}dt < \infty.$$ J. Chemin, P. Zhang and Z. F. Zhang \cite{CPZ} extended the range of $p$ to $(4, \infty)$. In this article we settle the case $p \in [2, 4]$. Our proof also works for the case $p \in (4,\infty)$.