Bilinear estimates in dyadic BMO and the Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

We establish bilinear estimates in dyadic BMO as an extension of Kozono and Taniuchi’s result on the usual BMO. To establish the bilinear estimates we use sharp maximal functions, while they used the boundedness of pseudo-differential operators by Coifman and Meyer. By this extension we prove that the dyadic BMO norm of the velocity controls the blow-up phenomena of smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. Moreover, we give an odd function with type II singularity which clarifies the difference between BMO and dyadic BMO.