The time-t map of a C¹ vector field agrees with a complete integral curve through interior points
ProvedAnosovPlugs.flowMap_eq_of_isMIntegralCurveLet be a Hausdorff smooth 3-manifold with boundary (modelled on the closed half-space) and let be a C¹ vector field on . Let be a complete integral curve of (defined for all times) all of whose points are interior points of . Then for every real ,
where is the time- map of the (partial) flow of .
In words: the time- map is given by the complete integral curve whenever one exists through the interior. This is the uniqueness of integral curves of a C¹ vector field, applied to the mission's definition of the flow; it is a general fact, not stated in the paper. In the formal proof of the parent statement it gives the invariance of the maximal invariant set under the time- maps.
Formalization Note The time- map is the mission's flowMap: when some integral curve of through is defined on the closed time interval between and , is the value at time of a chosen such curve; otherwise . Nothing in the definition asserts that this choice is unique. The statement says that this choice agrees with when is a complete integral curve through interior points. The interior hypothesis matches Mathlib's uniqueness theorem isMIntegralCurveOn_Ioo_eqOn_of_contMDiff, which is proved for curves through interior points; the statement is expected to hold without it, but that is not asserted. C¹ is the mission's IsC1VectorField (the section of the tangent bundle is C¹).
import Mathlib import Definitions.Def_AnosovPlugs_Gluing open scoped Manifold ContDiff Topology open Set
namespace AnosovPlugs
theorem flowMap_eq_of_isMIntegralCurve
{M : Type} [TopologicalSpace M] [ChartedSpace (EuclideanHalfSpace 3) M] [IsManifold I3 ∞ M]
[T2Space M]
(X : (x : M) → TangentSpace I3 x) (hX : IsC1VectorField X) (γ : ℝ → M)
(hγ : IsMIntegralCurve γ X) (hint : ∀ s : ℝ, I3.IsInteriorPoint (γ s)) (t : ℝ) :
flowMap X t (γ 0) = γ t := by sorry
end AnosovPlugs