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A convex integration scheme for the continuity equation past the Sobolev embedding threshold

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-07 v1

Abstract

We introduce a convex integration scheme for the continuity equation in the context of the Di Perna-Lions theory that allows to build incompressible vector fields in CtWx1,pC_{t}W^{1,p}_x and nonunique solutions in CtLxqC_{t} L^{q}_x for any p,qp,q with 1p+1q>1+1dδ\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} > 1 + \frac{1}{d}- \delta for some δ>0\delta>0. This improves the previous bound, corresponding to δ=0\delta=0, or equivalently q>pq' > p^*, obtained with convex integration so far, and critical for those schemes in view of the Sobolev embedding that guarantees that solutions are distributional in the opposite range.

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@article{arxiv.2504.03578,
  title  = {A convex integration scheme for the continuity equation past the Sobolev embedding threshold},
  author = {Maria Colombo and Roberto Colombo and Anuj Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.03578},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages

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