Leray's self-similar solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations with profiles in Marcinkiewicz and Morrey spaces

Abstract

We rule out the existence of Leray's backward self-similar solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations with profiles in $L^{12/5}(\R^3)$ or in the Marcinkiewicz space $L^{q,\infty}(\R^3)$ for $q\in(12/5, 6)$. This follows from a more general result formulated in terms of Morrey spaces and the first order Riesz's potential.