Séminaire Analyse non linéaire et EDP

Mini-course: Flows of nonsmooth vector fields Consider a vector field v on the Euclidean space. The classical Cauchy-Lipschitz (also named Picard-Lindelöf) Theorem states that, if the vector field is Lipschitz in space, for every initial datum x there is a unique trajectory γ starting at x at time 0 and solving the ODE γ'(t) = v(t, γ(t)). The theorem looses its validity as soon as v is slightly less regular. However, if we bundle all trajectories into a global map allowing x to vary, a celebrated theory started by DiPerna […]