These notes address two problems. First, we investigate the question of "how many" are (in Baire sense) vector fields in L1t Lqx, q is an element of [1, infinity), for which existence and/or uniqueness of local, distributional solutions to the associated continuity equation holds. We show that, in certain regimes, existence of solutions (even locally in time, for at least one nonzero initial datum) is a meager property, whereas, on the contrary, uniqueness of solutions is a generic property. Secondly, despite the fact that non-uniqueness is a meager property, we prove that (Sobolev) counterexamples to uniqueness, both for the continuity equation and for the ODE, in the spirit of [5] and [12] respectively, form a dense subset of the natural ambient space they live in

On some typicality and density results for nonsmooth vector fields and the associated ODE and continuity equation

Cianfrocca, Francesco;Modena, Stefano
2026-01-01

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These notes address two problems. First, we investigate the question of "how many" are (in Baire sense) vector fields in L1t Lqx, q is an element of [1, infinity), for which existence and/or uniqueness of local, distributional solutions to the associated continuity equation holds. We show that, in certain regimes, existence of solutions (even locally in time, for at least one nonzero initial datum) is a meager property, whereas, on the contrary, uniqueness of solutions is a generic property. Secondly, despite the fact that non-uniqueness is a meager property, we prove that (Sobolev) counterexamples to uniqueness, both for the continuity equation and for the ODE, in the spirit of [5] and [12] respectively, form a dense subset of the natural ambient space they live in
2026
Continuity equation; Ordinary differential equations; Existence and uniqueness; Baire category method
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