Isotropic realizability of fields and reconstruction of invariant measures under positivity properties. Asymptotics of the flow by a non-ergodic approach

Marc Briane (1)

1 IRMAR - Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes

The paper is devoted to the isotropic realizability of a regular gradient field u or a more general vector field b, namely the existence of a continuous positive function σ such that σb is divergence free in R d or in an open set of R d. First, we prove that under some suitable positivity condition satisfied by u, the isotropic realizability of u holds either in R d if u does not vanish, or in the open sets {c j < u < c j+1 } if the c j are the critical values of u (including inf R d u and sup R d u) which are assumed to be in finite number. It turns out that this positivity condition is not sufficient to ensure the existence of a continuous positive invariant measure σ on the torus when u is periodic. Then, we establish a new criterium of the existence of an invariant measure for the flow associated with a regular periodic vector field b, which is based on the equality b · v = 1 in R d. We show that this gradient invertibility is not related to the classical ergodic assumption, but it actually appears as an alternative to get the asymptotics of the flow.

Mots clés: 78A30; 35B27; Isotropic realizability; dynamical system; asymptotics of the flow Mathematics Subject Classification: 37C10; invariant measure

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]; Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Marc Briane. Isotropic realizability of fields and reconstruction of invariant measures under positivity properties. Asymptotics of the flow by a non-ergodic approach. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2019, 18 (4), pp.1846-1866. ⟨10.1137/19M1240411⟩. ⟨hal-01982014⟩