Strong solution for Korteweg system in bmo$^{-1}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ with initial density in $L^\infty$

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the question of the local existence of strong solution for the Korteweg system in critical spaces in dimension $N\geq 1$ provided that the initial data are small. More precisely the initial momentum $\rho_0 u_0$ belongs to $\mbox{bmo}_{T}^{-1}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ for $T>0$ and the initial density $\rho_0$ is in $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)$ and far away from the vacuum. This result extends the so called Koch-Tataru Theorem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to the case of the Korteweg system. It is also interesting to observe that any initial shock on the density is instantaneously regularized inasmuch as the density becomes Lipschitz for any $\rho(t,\cdot)$ with $t>0$. We also prove the existence of global strong solution for small initial data $(\rho_0-1,\rho_0u_0)$ in the homogeneous Besov spaces $(\dot{B}^{\frac{N}{2}-1}_{2,\infty} (\mathbb{R}^N) \cap \dot{B}^{\frac{N}{2}}_{2,\infty} (\mathbb{R}^N) \cap L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)) \times (\dot{B}^{\frac{N}{2}-1}_{2,\infty} (\mathbb{R}^N))^N$. This result allows in particular to extend in dimension $N=2$ the notion of Oseen solutions defined for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to the case of the Korteweg system when the vorticity of the momentum $\rho_0 u_0$ is a Dirac mass $\alpha\delta_0$ with $\alpha$ sufficiently small.