Non-uniqueness conjecture for the Sobolev divergence chain rule
Non-uniqueness conjecture for the Sobolev divergence chain rule
Let and assume that
Let and let satisfy the suitable assumptions specified in the source. An incompressible vector field is a vector field with vanishing distributional divergence. The conjecture asserts that there exist a density and an incompressible vector field such that the equations referenced in the source as
hold simultaneously. In certain cases, can moreover be chosen strictly positive.
Non-uniqueness conjecture. Under the stated integrability condition and suitable assumptions on and , such a density and incompressible Sobolev vector field exist, with the divergence equation and chain-rule defect equation holding simultaneously; in certain cases the density may be chosen strictly positive.
The conjecture is motivated by the analogy between the transport equation and the divergence chain-rule problem, together with convex-integration non-uniqueness results for transport by Sobolev vector fields. The source presents the assumptions on and only by reference to later points, and does not provide a resolution of this conjecture.
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Primary source
Miriam Buck and Stefano Modena, “On the failure of the chain rule for the divergence of Sobolev vector fields”, arXiv:2204.01363 (2022).
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