Global solvability of a continuous model for nonlocal fragmentation dynamics in a moving medium (Q460446)

Summary: Existence of global solutions to continuous nonlocal convection-fragmentation equations is investigated in spaces of distributions with finite higher moments. Under the assumption that the velocity field is divergence-free, we make use of the method of characteristics and Friedrichs's lemma [\textit{S. Mizohata}, The theory of partial differential equations. London: Cambridge University Press (1973; Zbl 0263.35001)] to show that the transport operator generates a stochastic dynamical system. This allows for the use of substochastic methods and Kato-Voigt perturbation theorem [\textit{J. Banasiak} and \textit{L. Arlotti}, Perturbations of positive semigroups with applications. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. London: Springer (2006; Zbl 1097.47038)] to ensure that the combined transport-fragmentation operator is the infinitesimal generator of a strongly continuous semigroup. In particular, we show that the solution represented by this semigroup is conservative.