A directional Lipschitz extension lemma, with applications to uniqueness and Lagrangianity for the continuity equation

DOI10.1080/03605302.2021.1883650zbMATH Open1477.35070arXiv1812.06817OpenAlexW3134384486MaRDI QIDQ5164840FDOQ5164840

Authors: Laura Caravenna, Gianluca Crippa 

Publication date: 15 November 2021

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a Lipschitz extension lemma in which the extension procedure simultaneously preserves the Lipschitz continuity for two non-equivalent distances. The two distances under consideration are the Euclidean distance and, roughly speaking, the geodesic distance along integral curves of a (possibly multi-valued) flow of a continuous vector field. The Lipschitz constant for the geodesic distance of the extension can be estimated in terms of the Lipschitz constant for the geodesic distance of the original function. This Lipschitz extension lemma allows us to remove the high integrability assumption on the solution needed for the uniqueness within the DiPerna-Lions theory of continuity equations in the case of vector fields in the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}$, where $p$ is larger than the space dimension, under the assumption that the so-called "forward-backward integral curves" associated to the vector field are trivial for almost every starting point. More precisely, for such vector fields we prove uniqueness and Lagrangianity for weak solutions of the continuity equation that are just locally integrable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06817

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zbMATH Keywords

disintegrationgeodesic distancecontinuity equationLipschitz extensionDiPerna-Lions theoryflow of a vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Initial value problems for linear first-order PDEs (35F10)

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