Integral curves through interior points on a compact time interval persist for nearby initial points
ProvedAnosovPlugs.exists_integralCurveOn_nhdsLet be a smooth 3-manifold with boundary (modelled on the closed half-space) and let be a C¹ vector field on . An integral curve of on a set of times is a curve whose derivative within at every is (Mathlib's IsMIntegralCurveOn; at the endpoints of an interval the derivative is one-sided). We write for the closed interval between and , in either order (Mathlib's uIcc 0 t). Let be an integral curve of on all of whose points , , are interior points of . Then every point in some neighbourhood of is the starting point of an integral curve of on through interior points: for all near ,
In words: orbits that stay in the interior of for a compact span of time persist for nearby initial points. This is the continuous dependence of solutions of a C¹ ordinary differential equation on initial conditions (continuation plus the Gronwall estimate in charts), restricted to what the formal development needs. A general fact, not stated in the paper; it is one of the facts behind footnote 2 of Section 1 (p. 2 of arXiv v1: the differentiable structure on W is compatible with those of U and V by restriction) and behind the fourth and fifth sentences of the proof of Proposition 1.1 (Section 3.1 of arXiv v1, p. 14), which state without proof that Λ_Z contains Λ_X and Λ_Y (through the inclusions) and use, without comment, that Λ_X and Λ_Y are hyperbolic sets of Z. In the proof of the companion statement plugGluing_local_conjugacy it provides, for near a point of , an orbit of that stays in the interior of up to time , so that the time- map of the glued field at can be computed inside .
Formalization Note No uniqueness is asserted and no Hausdorff or compactness hypothesis is assumed. Mathlib (at the pinned version) has short-time existence at interior points (exists_isMIntegralCurveAt_of_contMDiffAt) and, on boundaryless manifolds, global existence from a uniform existence time (exists_isMIntegralCurve_of_isMIntegralCurveOn); it has no continuous dependence on initial conditions, so existence on a prescribed compact time interval for nearby initial points is not available, which is why this statement is left open. C¹ is the mission's IsC1VectorField (the section of the tangent bundle is C¹). The conclusion is stated with Mathlib's ∀ᶠ y in 𝓝 (γ 0).
import Mathlib import Definitions.Def_AnosovPlugs_Gluing open scoped Manifold ContDiff Topology open Set
namespace AnosovPlugs
theorem exists_integralCurveOn_nhds
{M : Type} [TopologicalSpace M] [ChartedSpace (EuclideanHalfSpace 3) M] [IsManifold I3 ∞ M]
(X : (x : M) → TangentSpace I3 x) (hX : IsC1VectorField X) (γ : ℝ → M) (t : ℝ)
(hγ : IsMIntegralCurveOn γ X (uIcc 0 t)) (hint : ∀ s ∈ uIcc 0 t, I3.IsInteriorPoint (γ s)) :
∀ᶠ y in 𝓝 (γ 0), ∃ γ' : ℝ → M, γ' 0 = y ∧ IsMIntegralCurveOn γ' X (uIcc 0 t) ∧
∀ s ∈ uIcc 0 t, I3.IsInteriorPoint (γ' s) := by sorry
end AnosovPlugs