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Main Authors: Ambrosio, Luigi, Somma, Gianluca, Verzellesi, Simone, Vittone, Davide
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00804
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author Ambrosio, Luigi
Somma, Gianluca
Verzellesi, Simone
Vittone, Davide
author_facet Ambrosio, Luigi
Somma, Gianluca
Verzellesi, Simone
Vittone, Davide
contents In this paper we obtain the well-posedness of the transport and continuity equations in the Heisenberg groups $\mathbb{H}^n$ for a class of contact vector fields $\mathbf b$, under natural assumptions on the regularity of $\mathbf b$ not covered by the, now classical, Euclidean theory [18]. It is the first example of well-posedness in a genuine sub-Riemannian setting, that we obtain adapting to the $\mathbb{H}^n$ geometry the mollification strategy of [18]. In the final part of the paper we illustrate why our result is not covered by the Euclidean $BV$ case solved by the first author in [1], and we compare it with the strategy of [7], based on the representation of the commutator by interpolation à la Bakry-Émery and an integral representation of the symmetrized derivative of $\mathbf b$.
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spellingShingle Renormalization of contact vector fields with horizontal Sobolev regularity in Heisenberg groups
Ambrosio, Luigi
Somma, Gianluca
Verzellesi, Simone
Vittone, Davide
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper we obtain the well-posedness of the transport and continuity equations in the Heisenberg groups $\mathbb{H}^n$ for a class of contact vector fields $\mathbf b$, under natural assumptions on the regularity of $\mathbf b$ not covered by the, now classical, Euclidean theory [18]. It is the first example of well-posedness in a genuine sub-Riemannian setting, that we obtain adapting to the $\mathbb{H}^n$ geometry the mollification strategy of [18]. In the final part of the paper we illustrate why our result is not covered by the Euclidean $BV$ case solved by the first author in [1], and we compare it with the strategy of [7], based on the representation of the commutator by interpolation à la Bakry-Émery and an integral representation of the symmetrized derivative of $\mathbf b$.
title Renormalization of contact vector fields with horizontal Sobolev regularity in Heisenberg groups
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00804