On the regularity of the flow of analytic vector fields

Lope, Jose Ernie C.; Ona, Mark Philip F.

VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2 (July to December 2023)

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SciEnggJ. 2023 16 (2) 453-455;
available online: December 31, 2023

*Corresponding author
Email Address: mpona@math.upd.edu.ph
Date received: September 9, 2023
Date revised: November 30, 2023
Date accepted: December 23, 2023

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On the regularity of the flow of analytic vector fields

Jose Ernie C. Lope and Mark Philip F. Ona*

Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines-Diliman,
Quezon City, 1101 Philippines

KEYWORDS: Analytic vector field, Cauchy problem, Cauchy-Kowalevsky theorem, Majorization

The flow of vector field X is the solution to the system of linear partial differential equations ∂_t u(t,z)=X(u(t,z)) with initial condition u(0,z)=z. It is known that for an analytic vector field, its flow is given by a convergent Lie series. Recently, Carillo gave a quick and elementary proof of this fact by introducing a special family of norms. This paper gives an even more concise proof by directly estimating the formal series expansion and using a family of majorant functions studied by Lax.