Liouville conjecture for stationary Navier–Stokes fields

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Let vv be a vector field on R3\mathbb R^{3}, with pressure pp, satisfying the stationary Navier–Stokes system

−νΔv+∑1≤j≤3∂j(vjv)+∇p=0,div⁡v=0,-\nu \Delta v+\sum_{1\le j\le 3}\partial_{j}(v_{j}v)+\nabla p=0,\qquad \operatorname{div}v=0,

where ν>0\nu>0, together with

v∈Lloc⁡1(R3,R3)∩S′(R3,R3),∀s>0, ∣{x∈R3:∣v(x)∣>s}∣<+∞,v\in L^{1}_{\operatorname{loc}}(\mathbb R^{3},\mathbb R^{3})\cap\mathscr S'(\mathbb R^{3},\mathbb R^{3}),\qquad \forall s>0,\ \left|\{x\in\mathbb R^{3}:|v(x)|>s\}\right|<+\infty,

and curl⁡v∈L2(R3,R3)\operatorname{curl}v\in L^{2}(\mathbb R^{3},\mathbb R^{3}). Liouville conjecture. Then vv is identically equal to 00. This is the paper’s main conjecture and asserts that sufficiently decaying stationary three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes fields must vanish; the source states that it remains open.

References

Primary source

Nicolas Lerner, “Wiener Algebras Methods for Liouville Theorems on the Stationary Navier-Stokes System”, arXiv:2601.13916 (2026).

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