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Mathematics PDF Available DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111314 Non-peer-reviewed Preprint

Divergence-free drifts decrease concentration

Elias Hess-Childs, Renaud Raquepas, Keefer Rowan  ยท  Published 2025-03-20

Abstract

We show that bounded divergence-free vector fields $u : [0,\infty) \times \mathbb{R}^d \to\mathbb{R}^d$ decrease the ''concentration'', quantified by the modulus of absolute continuity with respect to the Lebesgue measure, of solutions to the associated advection-diffusion equation when compared to solutions to the heat equation. In particular, for symmetric decreasing initial data, the solution to the advection-diffusion equation has (without a prefactor constant) larger variance, larger entropy, and smaller $L^p$ norms for all $p \in [1,\infty]$ than the solution to the heat equation. We also note that the same is not true on $\mathbb{T}^d$.

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