A note on flux integrals over smooth regular domains

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Abstract: We provide new bounds on a flux integral over the portion of the boundary of one regular domain contained inside a second regular domain, based on properties of the second domain rather than the first one. This bound is amenable to numerical computation of a flux through the boundary of a domain, for example, when there is a large variation in the normal vector near a point. We present applications of this result to occupational measures and two-dimensional differential equations, including a new proof that all minimal invariant sets in the plane are trivial.


In this paper the authors extend some existing formulae, which provide bounds on flux-type integrals in the manifold setting. For example, one of the results states that if \(D_1\), \(D_2\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}\) are regular domains with finite surface areas, the intersection \(D_1\cap D_2\) is compact, and \(f\) is a smooth, bounded incompressible vector field on \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\), then it holds that \[ \left|\int_{\partial D_1\cap D_2}f\cdot\mathbf{n}_{\partial D_1}\;dA\right|\leq\frac{1}{2}\text{Area}\left(\partial D_2\right)\| f\|_{\infty}. \] A few other similar results are also stated by the authors, and, furthermore, some applications of these results are provided. The paper is nicely written and should be of interest to those whose interests intersect differential topology and its applications in real analysis.











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