Infinitely many Leray-Hopf solutions for the fractional Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract: We prove the ill-posedness for the Leray-Hopf weak solutions of the incompressible and ipodissipative Navier-Stokes equations, when the power of the diffusive term $(-\Delta)^\gamma$ is $\gamma < \frac{1}{3}$. We construct infinitely many solutions, starting from the same initial datum, which belong to $C_{x,t}^{\frac{1}{3}-}$ and strictly dissipate their energy in small time intervals. The proof exploits the "convex integration scheme" introduced by C. De Lellis and L. Sz\'ekelyhidi for the incompressible Euler equations, joining these ideas with new stability estimates for a class of non-local advection-diffusion equations and a local (in time) well-posedness result for the fractional Navier-Stokes system. Moreover we show the existence of dissipative H\"older continuous solutions of Euler equations that can be obtained as a vanishing viscosity limit of Leray-Hopf weak solutions of a suitable fractional Navier-Stokes equations.