Short time regularity of Navier-Stokes flows with locally $L^3$ initial data and applications

Abstract

We prove short time regularity of suitable weak solutions of 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations near a point where the initial data is locally in $L^3$. The result is applied to the regularity problems of solutions with uniformly small local $L^3$ norms, and of forward discretely self-similar solutions.