Lie brackets of nonsmooth vector fields and commutation of their flows

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12597arXiv2011.07351OpenAlexW3103449431MaRDI QIDQ6134508FDOQ6134508

Authors: Chiara Rigoni, Eugene Stepanov, Dario Trevisan 

Publication date: 22 August 2023

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known that the flows generated by two smooth vector fields commute, if the Lie bracket of these vector fields vanishes. This assertion is known to extend to Lipschitz continuous vector fields, up to interpreting the vanishing of their Lie bracket in the sense of almost everywhere equality. We show that this cannot be extended to general a.e. differentiable vector fields admitting a.e. unique flows. We show however that the extension holds when one field is Lipschitz continuous and the other one is merely Sobolev regular (but admitting a regular Lagrangian flow).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07351

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zbMATH Keywords

Sobolev vector fieldsregular Lagrangian flowcommuting flowsLipschitz vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05)

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