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The core of the existence and smoothness problem of the Navier-Stokes equations is: under arbitrary initial conditions, do the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations always produce smooth, physically reasonable solutions, or can singularities (velocity fields tending to infinity) develop in finite time.
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