Some general external forces and critical mild solutions for the fractional Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In this article we study mild solutions for the forced, incompressible fractional Navier-Stokes equations. These solutions are classically obtained via a fixed-point argument which relies on suitable estimates for the initial data, the nonlinearity and the external forces. Many functional spaces can be considered, however we are mainly interested here in a critical setting which ensures the existence of global solutions. We give some examples of such critical functional spaces and we discuss their relationship with generic external forces.