We are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of solutions with
only bounded density for the barotropic compressible Navier–Stokes
equations. Assuming that the initial velocity has slightly subcritical
regularity and that the initial density is a small perturbation (in the
norm) of
a positive constant, we prove the existence of local-in-time solutions. In the case where
the density takes two constant values across a smooth interface (or, more generally, has
striated regularity with respect to some nondegenerate family of vector fields), we get
uniqueness. This latter result supplements the work by D. Hoff (Comm. Pure Appl.Math.55:11 (2002), 1365–1407) with a uniqueness statement, and is valid in any
dimension
and for general pressure laws.
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