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Lie brackets of nonsmooth vector fields and commutation of their flows

Authors :
Rigoni, Chiara
Stepanov, Eugene
Trevisan, Dario
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

It is well-known that the flows generated by two smooth vector fields commute, if the Lie bracket of these vector fields vanishes. This assertion is known to extend to Lipschitz continuous vector fields, up to interpreting the vanishing of their Lie bracket in the sense of almost everywhere equality. We show that this cannot be extended to general a.e. differentiable vector fields admitting a.e. unique flows. We show however that the extension holds when one field is Lipschitz continuous and the other one is merely Sobolev regular (but admitting a regular Lagrangian flow).

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2011.07351
Document Type :
Working Paper