Real analytic solutions to the divergence equation
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a differential-topological method to yield explicit real analytic solutions to the divergence equation on any annali , with , and . The prescribed source term is supposed to be real analytic on satisfying the zero integral condition on . The resulting solution is a real analytic vector field on , which vanishes on . The method which we develop here is different from the standard Bogovski approach and the Kapitanskii-Pileckas approach. The first main step our method is a clever differential-topological argument, which we develop under the inspiration and guidance of the standard proof of the cohomological statement in Spviak book A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol I. This allows us to reduce the problem to that of solving a linear algebra problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.21925,
title = {Real analytic solutions to the divergence equation},
author = {Chi Hin Chan and Jun-Shuo Chen and Cheng-Fang Su},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21925},
year = {2026}
}
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26 pages