Work in progress: A Lean 4 Formalization of the Classical Continuation Chain for Periodic Navier-Stokes on T^3: Energy Identity, H^3 Commutator Reduction and the BKM Route
Work in progress (draft). Companion paper to the Lean 4/Mathlib repository. Proved unconditionally: H^3 BKM control and the periodic BKM criterion. Clay Statement (B) is proven only conditionally on the open named Prop PeriodicBKMIntegrability. Does NOT solve the Clay problem or prove Navier-Stokes regularity. Source: https://github.com/BenFrohman/periodic-ns-classical-continuation at commit aa9def3. Sibling reduction paper: 10.5281/zenodo.23842296. © 2026 Benjamin Stanley Frohman (ORCID 0009-0006-7068-3718). Licensed under Apache-2.0. New version: corrected PDF (banner/DOI wording, updated status). Work in progress; does not solve the Clay problem. New version (v3): typeset with new LaTeX harness; claims unchanged. Work in progress; does not solve the Clay problem. New version (v4): adds the Oct 31 2026 bending-rate hidden-property hypothesis (open) and a proved breakdown of the Constantin-Fefferman step (algebraic depletion bound, L1 Gronwall); open steps remain named hypotheses. Work in progress; does not solve the Clay problem. New version: PeriodicH1TrilinearBound (Ladyzhenskaya-type estimate, explicit constant) and PeriodicMeanConservation now proved in Lean; small-data continuation depends only on the named PeriodicH1BlowupCriterion (not formalized). Work in progress; does not solve the Clay problem.
Authors
- Benjamin Frohman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7068-3718)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845554
- Primary Topic
- Navier-Stokes equation solutions
- Type
- preprint