01449nas a2200121   4500008004100000245006900041210006700110260001000177520104800187100002301235700002101258856004801279       2017                        en  d00aA uniqueness result for the decomposition of vector fields in Rd0 auniqueness result for the decomposition of vector fields in Rd  bSISSA3 a<p>Given a vector field $\rho (1,\b) \in L^1_\loc(\R^+\times \R^{d},\R^{d+1})$ such that $\dive_{t,x} (\rho (1,\b))$ is a measure, we consider the problem of uniqueness of the representation $\eta$ of $\rho (1,\b) \mathcal L^{d+1}$ as a superposition of characteristics $\gamma : (t^-_\gamma,t^+_\gamma) \to \R^d$, $\dot \gamma (t)= \b(t,\gamma(t))$. We give conditions in terms of a local structure of the representation $\eta$ on suitable sets in order to prove that there is a partition of $\R^{d+1}$ into disjoint trajectories $\wp_\a$, $\a \in \A$, such that the PDE \begin{equation*} \dive_{t,x} \big( u \rho (1,\b) \big) \in \mathcal M(\R^{d+1}), \qquad u \in L^\infty(\R^+\times \R^{d}), \end{equation*} can be disintegrated into a family of ODEs along $\wp_\a$ with measure r.h.s.. The decomposition $\wp_\a$ is essentially unique. We finally show that $\b \in L^1_t(\BV_x)_\loc$ satisfies this local structural assumption and this yields, in particular, the renormalization property for nearly incompressible $\BV$ vector fields.</p>1 aBianchini, Stefano1 aBonicatto, Paolo  uhttp://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/3527401084nas a2200133   4500008004100000245014200041210006900183260005100252520053000303100002200833700002300855700002100878856005100899       2014                        en  d00aA uniqueness result for the continuity equation in two dimensions: dedicated to constantine dafermos on the occasion of his 70th birthday0 auniqueness result for the continuity equation in two dimensions   bEuropean Mathematical Society; Springer Verlag3 aWe characterize the autonomous, divergence-free vector fields b on the plane such that the Cauchy problem for the continuity equation ∂tu +div(bu) = 0 admits a unique bounded solution (in the weak sense) for every bounded initial datum; the characterization is given in terms of a property of Sard type for the potential f associated to b. As a corollary we obtain uniqueness under the assumption that the curl of b is a measure. This result can be extended to certain nonautonomous vector fields b with bounded divergence.1 aAlberti, Giovanni1 aBianchini, Stefano1 aCrippa, Gianluca  uhttp://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/3469200413nas a2200121   4500008004100000245007000041210006800111260001000179100002200189700002300211700002100234856003600255       2011                        en  d00aA uniqueness result for the continuity equation in two dimensions0 auniqueness result for the continuity equation in two dimensions  bSISSA1 aAlberti, Giovanni1 aBianchini, Stefano1 aCrippa, Gianluca  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/4663