arXiv:2601.08854v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a geometric and microlocal framework for the Navier–Stokes equations by lifting the dynamics to the cosphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold. In this formulation, the velocity field and vorticity are represented as microlocal distributions whose evolution is governed by a transport–dissipation system generated by a canonical dynamical vector field described with differential forms. We introduce microlocal amplitudes, directional energy functionals, and monotone volume invariants on the compact phase space, which quantify directional concentration and alignment mechanisms associated with potential loss of regularity. The viscous term induces effective geometric diffusion on the cosphere bundle, yielding closed differential inequalities in a geometric setting. To capture the interaction between fluid deformation and geometry, we define an effective connection and curvature tensor encoding the influence of the symmetric velocity gradient. This structure gives rise to a Ricci-type geometric evolution at the microlocal level, controlled by a dissipative functional that excludes extreme directional concentration and persistent transverse stretching. Our results do not resolve the global regularity problem in full generality, but provide a coherent geometric mechanism that severely restricts blow-up scenarios compatible with viscous Navier–Stokes dynamics, reformulating the analytic regularity question as a problem of dissipative stability on a compact phase space.