Divergence-free drifts decrease concentration
Analysis of PDEs
2026-03-10 v1
Abstract
We show that bounded divergence-free vector fields decrease the ''concentration'', quantified by the modulus of absolute continuity with respect to the Lebesgue measure, of solutions to the associated advection-diffusion equation when compared to solutions to the heat equation. In particular, for symmetric decreasing initial data, the solution to the advection-diffusion equation has (without a prefactor constant) larger variance, larger entropy, and smaller norms for all than the solution to the heat equation. We also note that the same is not true on .
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@article{arxiv.2503.16723,
title = {Divergence-free drifts decrease concentration},
author = {Elias Hess-Childs and Renaud Raquépas and Keefer Rowan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16723},
year = {2026}
}
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