We consider the Cauchy problem for the continuity equation in space dimension $d ge 2$. We construct a divergence-free velocity field uniformly bounded in all Sobolev spaces $W^{1,p}$, for $1 le p 1$, and solutions of the continuity equation with these velocities that exhibit some loss of regularity, as long as the Sobolev space $W^{r,p}$ does not embed in the space of Lipschitz functions. Our constructions are based on examples of optimal mixers from the companion paper Exponential self-similar mixing by incompressible flows (Alberti et al. in J Am Math Soc 32(2):445–490, 2019), and have been announced in Exponential self-similar mixing and loss of regularity for continuity equations (Alberti et al. in Comptes Rendus Math Acad Sci Paris 352(11):901–906, 2014).

Loss of regularity for the continuity equation with non-Lipschitz velocity field

Giovanni Alberti;
2019-01-01

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy problem for the continuity equation in space dimension $d ge 2$. We construct a divergence-free velocity field uniformly bounded in all Sobolev spaces $W^{1,p}$, for $1 le p 1$, and solutions of the continuity equation with these velocities that exhibit some loss of regularity, as long as the Sobolev space $W^{r,p}$ does not embed in the space of Lipschitz functions. Our constructions are based on examples of optimal mixers from the companion paper Exponential self-similar mixing by incompressible flows (Alberti et al. in J Am Math Soc 32(2):445–490, 2019), and have been announced in Exponential self-similar mixing and loss of regularity for continuity equations (Alberti et al. in Comptes Rendus Math Acad Sci Paris 352(11):901–906, 2014).
2019
Alberti, Giovanni; Gianluca, Crippa; Anna Laura, Mazzucato
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