Sharp well-posedness and ill-posedness of the Navier-Stokes initial value problem in Besov-type spaces

Abstract

We prove that the Navier-Stokes initial value problem is well-posed in the logrithmically refined Besov spaces when the second index is not less than certain critical value, and ill-posed in such spaces when the second index is less than this critical value. The well-posedness result is proved by using some sharp bilinear estimates obtained from some Hardy-Littlewood type inequalities. The ill-posedness assertion is proved by refining the arguments of Wang [18] and Yoneda [20].