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Remarks on a Liouville-type theorem by Chae and Wolf for stationary Navier-Stokes equations

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In this note, we revisit a Liouville-type theorem of Chae and Wolf for stationary Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ [J. Differential Equations 261 (2016) 5541-5560]. We show that their logarithmic improvement of the classical $L^{9/2}$ condition is part of a substantially broader weighted framework. More precisely, we prove that a solution $u\in\dot H^1(\mathbb{R}^3)$ is necessarily trivial whenever $$ \int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|u(x)|^{9/2}\,\omega(|u(x)|)\,dx<+\infty, $$ for every positive, nondecreasing and bounded weight $\omega$ satisfying a mild growth condition near the origin. This structural condition encompasses the logarithmic weight due to Chae and Wolf, as well as a hierarchy of iterated-logarithmic weights and (genuinely) non-logarithmic examples, including a dyadic weight. Our result identifies a broader class of weighted integrability conditions under which the triviality of stationary Navier-Stokes solutions follows, and shows that the mechanism underlying the Chae-Wolf improvement is not intrinsically tied to a specific logarithmic weight or to a single logarithmic scale.

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