Kinetic formulation of vortex vector fields

DOI10.2140/APDE.2017.10.729MaRDI QIDQ524237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Bochard, Radu Ignat

Publication date 2 May 2017

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02961

zbMATH Keywords

level setscharacteristicseikonal equationstream functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F20) Hamilton-Jacobi equations (35F21)

Abstract: This article focuses on gradient vector fields of unit Euclidean norm in $mathbb{R}^N$ . The stream functions associated to such vector fields solve the eikonal equation and the prototype is given by the distance function to a closed set. We introduce a kinetic formulation that characterizes stream functions whose level sets are either spheres or hyperplanes in dimension $Ngeq3$. Our main result proves that the kinetic formulation is a selection principle for the vortex vector field whose stream function is the distance function to a point.

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