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OpenAI reports: Navier–Stokes blowup with smooth forcing

For every positive viscosity, the manuscript reports a three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flow starting from rest with smooth compactly supported forcing, bounded kinetic energy, and unbounded velocity in finite time.

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OpenAI reports: Navier–Stokes blowup with smooth forcing

For every positive viscosity, the manuscript reports a three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flow starting from rest with smooth compactly supported forcing, bounded kinetic energy, and unbounded velocity in finite time. It claims Clay alternatives C on R³ and D on the periodic torus.

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Original report: 2026-09-08

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For every positive viscosity, the manuscript reports a three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flow starting from rest with smooth compactly supported forcing, bounded kinetic energy, and unbounded velocity in finite time. It claims Clay alternatives C on R³ and D on the periodic torus.

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If correct, settles the specified smooth-forcing breakdown alternatives of a Millennium Prize problem, despite leaving the unforced question separate.

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