Charles Bouton and the Navier-Stokes Global Regularity Conjecture

Abstract

This article examines the Bouton-Lie group invariants of the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) for incompressible fluids. Bouton's theory is applied to the general scaling transformation admitted by the NSE and is used to derive all self-similar solutions. In light of these, the criticality of the standard NSE system is examined and criticality criteria are derived. The theorem of Beale-Kato-Majda is used to rule out blow-up for a subset of Bouton's self-similar solutions. For a subset of Leray's self-similar solutions, the cavitation number of the fluid is found to be a scale-invariant, conserved quantity. By extending the analysis of Bouton to higher-dimensioned manifolds, additional conserved quantities are found, which could further elucidate the physics of fluid turbulence.