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Transport equations for Osgood velocity fields

Analysis of PDEs 2025-06-26 v2

Abstract

We consider the transport equation with a velocity field satisfying the Osgood condition. The weak formulation is not meaningful in the usual Lebesgue sense, meaning that the usual DiPerna--Lions treatment of the problem is not applicable {(in particular, the divergence of the velocity might be unbounded)}. Instead, we use Riemann--Stieltjes integration to interpret the weak formulation, leading to a well-posedness theory in regimes not covered by existing works. The most general results are for the one-dimensional problem, with generalisations to multiple dimensions in the particular case of log-Lipschitz velocities.

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@article{arxiv.2502.11531,
  title  = {Transport equations for Osgood velocity fields},
  author = {Ulrik Skre Fjordholm and Ola Isaac Høgåsen Mæhlen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11531},
  year   = {2025}
}
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