Improving the regularity of vector fields

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109537MaRDI QIDQ2672206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian Street, Liding Yao

Publication date 8 June 2022

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10120

zbMATH Keywords

low regularity PDEsnon-smooth differential geometryvector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: Let $alpha>0$, $$, and let $X_1,ldots,X_q$ be $mathscr{C}_{mathrmloc}^{alpha}$ vector fields on a $mathscr{C}^{alpha+1}$ manifold which span the tangent space at every point, where $mathscr{C}^s$ denotes the Zygmund-H"older space of order $s$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for when there is a $$ structure on the manifold, compatible with its $mathscr{C}^{alpha+1}$ structure, with respect to which $X_1,ldots,X_q$ are $$. This strengthens previous results of the first author which dealt with the setting $alpha>1$, $$.

Review text

Let \(q \in \mathbb{N}\), \(0 < \alpha < \beta\), and \(\mathcal{C}^s\) be the Zygmund-Hölder space of order \(s\). Given vector fields \(X_1, \ldots, X_q\) on a \(\mathcal{C}^{\alpha+1}\) manifold \(\mathfrak{M}\) which span the tangent space at every point on \(\mathfrak{M}\), the paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions guaranteeing that there is a \(\mathcal{C}^{\beta+1}\) structure on \(\mathfrak{M}\) compatible with the \(\mathcal{C}^{\alpha+1}\) structure such that \(X_1, \ldots, X_q\) are \(\mathcal{C}^{\beta+1}_{\mathrm{loc}}\) vector fields. The results given in the paper generalize those by \textit{B. Street} ]Am. J. Math. 143, No. 6, 1791--1840 (2021; Zbl 1489.58002)], who examined the cases \(\alpha > 1\) and \(\beta > 2\). The necessary and sufficient conditions in [loc. cit.] were described with the commutators \(\{[X_j,X_k]\}_{j,k=1}^q\) of the vector fields. One main issue in the paper is that each \([X_j,X_k]\) is not immediately well defined for \(\alpha > 0\) small. The authors find suitable conditions alternative to those in [loc. cit.], which make sense in low regularity settings. The proof requires several concepts from differential geometry, Fourier analysis and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.

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