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Theorem 1: the marginal continuity equation

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FlowMatchingT1.theorem_one

by MiltMont · Sep 23, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

analysiscontinuity-equationflow-matchingmeasure-theory

Let d∈Nd\in\mathbb Nd∈N, E=RdE=\mathbb R^dE=Rd, QQQ a Borel probability measure on EEE, ρ(t,x,z)\rho(t,x,z)ρ(t,x,z) a real conditional density, and v(t,x,z)v(t,x,z)v(t,x,z) an EEE-valued conditional velocity. At every t∈[0,1]t\in[0,1]t∈[0,1], assume strict positivity and joint measurability of ρ(t,⋅,⋅)\rho(t,\cdot,\cdot)ρ(t,⋅,⋅), normalization and Lebesgue integrability in xxx for every zzz, and QQQ-integrability in zzz for every xxx. At every interior time and position, assume the local time-domination conditions for ρ\rhoρ and local spatial-domination conditions for F=ρvF=\rho vF=ρv: integrability at the base point, local almost-everywhere strong measurability, measurable derivatives at that point, and differentiability on a common neighborhood with a derivative-norm bound integrable in zzz.

Suppose that for every 0<t<10<t<10<t<1 and every xxx, the conditional density has time derivative −div⁡xF(t,x,z)-\operatorname{div}_xF(t,x,z)−divx​F(t,x,z) for QQQ-almost every zzz. Define p=∫ρ dQp=\int\rho\,dQp=∫ρdQ, J=∫F dQJ=\int F\,dQJ=∫FdQ, and u=p−1Ju=p^{-1}Ju=p−1J. Then p(t,⋅)p(t,\cdot)p(t,⋅) is a strictly positive probability density for every t∈[0,1]t\in[0,1]t∈[0,1], the flux p(t,⋅)u(t,⋅)p(t,\cdot)u(t,\cdot)p(t,⋅)u(t,⋅) is spatially differentiable for interior times, and

∂tp(t,x)+div⁡x(p(t,x)u(t,x))=0(0<t<1, x∈E).\partial_t p(t,x)+\operatorname{div}_x\bigl(p(t,x)u(t,x)\bigr)=0\qquad(0<t<1,\ x\in E).∂t​p(t,x)+divx​(p(t,x)u(t,x))=0(0<t<1, x∈E).

Formalization Note. This target formalizes the continuity-equation formulation of Theorem 1 with a concrete sufficient interpretation of Appendix A's Leibniz-rule assumptions. It allows arbitrary conditioning probability measures, including empirical ones. It does not assert an endpoint time derivative or the separate equivalence between the PDE and transport by a global ODE flow.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_FlowMatchingT1
open MeasureTheory
open FlowMatchingT1

Formal statement
theorem FlowMatchingT1.theorem_one
    {d : ℕ} (Q : Measure (Space d)) [IsProbabilityMeasure Q]
    (ρ : ℝ → Space d → Space d → ℝ) (v : ℝ → Space d → Space d → Space d)
    (hρ : DensityHypotheses Q ρ) (hreg : AnalyticHypotheses Q ρ v)
    (hconditional : ∀ t ∈ Set.Ioo (0 : ℝ) 1, ∀ x, ∀ᵐ z ∂Q,
      HasDerivAt (fun s => ρ s x z)
        (-divergence (fun y => conditionalFlux ρ v t y z) x) t) :
    (∀ t ∈ Set.Icc (0 : ℝ) 1,
      ProbabilityDensity (marginalDensity Q ρ t) ∧
      ∀ x, 0 < marginalDensity Q ρ t x) ∧
    ContinuityEquation (marginalDensity Q ρ) (marginalVelocity Q ρ v) := by sorry
Source
Y. Lipman, R. T. Q. Chen, H. Ben-Hamu, M. Nickel, M. Le, Flow Matching for Generative Modeling, ICLR 2023; https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747v2; Section 2, Section 3.1, Theorem 1, equations (6), (8), (26), Appendix A proof of Theorem 1.
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For every natural number ddd, let E=R{0,…,d−1}E=\mathbb R^{\{0,\ldots,d-1\}}E=R{0,…,d−1}, with its usual coordinatewise real vector-space structure, product topology, maximum norm, and Lebesgue measure λ\lambdaλ; let QQQ be any probability measure on EEE (so Q(E)=1Q(E)=1Q(E)=1); and let ρ:R×E×E→R\rho:\mathbb R\times E\times E\to\mathbb Rρ:R×E×E→R and v:R×E×E→Ev:\mathbb R\times E\times E\to Ev:R×E×E→E be arbitrary functions satisfying the following assumptions. Write F(t,x,z)=ρ(t,x,z)v(t,x,z)F(t,x,z)=\rho(t,x,z)v(t,x,z)F(t,x,z)=ρ(t,x,z)v(t,x,z) for scalar multiplication of the vector v(t,x,z)v(t,x,z)v(t,x,z) by the real number ρ(t,x,z)\rho(t,x,z)ρ(t,x,z). For every t∈[0,1]t\in[0,1]t∈[0,1] and every x,z∈Ex,z\in Ex,z∈E, ρ(t,x,z)>0\rho(t,x,z)>0ρ(t,x,z)>0; for every such ttt, the function (x,z)↦ρ(t,x,z)(x,z)\mapsto\rho(t,x,z)(x,z)↦ρ(t,x,z) is measurable on E×EE\times EE×E; for every such ttt and every z∈Ez\in Ez∈E, the function x↦ρ(t,x,z)x\mapsto\rho(t,x,z)x↦ρ(t,x,z) is everywhere nonnegative, is integrable with respect to λ\lambdaλ, and satisfies ∫Eρ(t,x,z) dλ(x)=1\int_E\rho(t,x,z)\,d\lambda(x)=1∫E​ρ(t,x,z)dλ(x)=1; and for every such ttt and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, the function z↦ρ(t,x,z)z\mapsto\rho(t,x,z)z↦ρ(t,x,z) is integrable with respect to QQQ. For every t∈(0,1)t\in(0,1)t∈(0,1) and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, additionally assume all of the following time regularity conditions: z↦ρ(t,x,z)z\mapsto\rho(t,x,z)z↦ρ(t,x,z) is QQQ-integrable; there is a neighborhood of ttt on which, for every real sss, z↦ρ(s,x,z)z\mapsto\rho(s,x,z)z↦ρ(s,x,z) is almost everywhere strongly measurable with respect to QQQ; the function z↦ddsρ(s,x,z)∣s=tz\mapsto\left.\frac{d}{ds}\rho(s,x,z)\right|_{s=t}z↦dsd​ρ(s,x,z)​s=t​ is almost everywhere strongly measurable with respect to QQQ; and there exist a set N⊆RN\subseteq\mathbb RN⊆R containing a neighborhood of ttt and a QQQ-integrable real function b:E→Rb:E\to\mathbb Rb:E→R such that, for QQQ-almost every zzz, ∣ddrρ(r,x,z)∣r=s∣≤b(z)\left|\left.\frac{d}{dr}\rho(r,x,z)\right|_{r=s}\right|\le b(z)​drd​ρ(r,x,z)​r=s​​≤b(z) for every s∈Ns\in Ns∈N, and, for QQQ-almost every zzz, s↦ρ(s,x,z)s\mapsto\rho(s,x,z)s↦ρ(s,x,z) is differentiable at every s∈Ns\in Ns∈N. For every t∈(0,1)t\in(0,1)t∈(0,1) and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, also assume all of the following spatial regularity conditions: z↦F(t,x,z)z\mapsto F(t,x,z)z↦F(t,x,z) is QQQ-integrable; there is a neighborhood of xxx on which, for every yyy, z↦F(t,y,z)z\mapsto F(t,y,z)z↦F(t,y,z) is almost everywhere strongly measurable with respect to QQQ; the function z↦DyF(t,x,z)z\mapsto D_yF(t,x,z)z↦Dy​F(t,x,z), taking values in the continuous real linear maps from EEE to EEE, is almost everywhere strongly measurable with respect to QQQ; and there exist a set M⊆EM\subseteq EM⊆E containing a neighborhood of xxx and a QQQ-integrable real function c:E→Rc:E\to\mathbb Rc:E→R such that, for QQQ-almost every zzz, ∥DyF(t,y,z)∥op≤c(z)\|D_yF(t,y,z)\|_{\mathrm{op}}\le c(z)∥Dy​F(t,y,z)∥op​≤c(z) for every y∈My\in My∈M, and, for QQQ-almost every zzz, y↦F(t,y,z)y\mapsto F(t,y,z)y↦F(t,y,z) is Fréchet differentiable at every y∈My\in My∈M. The neighborhoods and bounds in these assumptions may depend on ttt and xxx; in each bound and differentiability assertion, the exceptional null set is independent of the point ranging over the indicated neighborhood, while the separate assertions may initially have different exceptional null sets. Here DyF(t,y,z)D_yF(t,y,z)Dy​F(t,y,z) denotes the real Fréchet derivative of w↦F(t,w,z)w\mapsto F(t,w,z)w↦F(t,w,z) at yyy, with operator norm induced by the maximum norm on EEE; scalar derivatives and Fréchet derivatives used as functions are assigned the value zero at points where the corresponding function is not differentiable. Let eie_iei​ be the vector with coordinate 111 at iii and 000 elsewhere, and define the divergence of any function G:E→EG:E\to EG:E→E at xxx to be div⁡G(x)=∑i=0d−1(DG(x)[ei])i\operatorname{div}G(x)=\sum_{i=0}^{d-1}(DG(x)[e_i])_idivG(x)=∑i=0d−1​(DG(x)[ei​])i​, using that same total Fréchet derivative convention. The final assumption is that, for every t∈(0,1)t\in(0,1)t∈(0,1) and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, for QQQ-almost every zzz the scalar function s↦ρ(s,x,z)s\mapsto\rho(s,x,z)s↦ρ(s,x,z) has a derivative at ttt equal to −div⁡(y↦F(t,y,z))(x)-\operatorname{div}(y\mapsto F(t,y,z))(x)−div(y↦F(t,y,z))(x); the exceptional null set in this assumption is allowed to depend on both ttt and xxx. Define, for every real ttt and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, p(t,x)=∫Eρ(t,x,z) dQ(z)p(t,x)=\int_E\rho(t,x,z)\,dQ(z)p(t,x)=∫E​ρ(t,x,z)dQ(z), J(t,x)=∫EF(t,x,z) dQ(z)J(t,x)=\int_EF(t,x,z)\,dQ(z)J(t,x)=∫E​F(t,x,z)dQ(z), and u(t,x)=p(t,x)−1J(t,x)u(t,x)=p(t,x)^{-1}J(t,x)u(t,x)=p(t,x)−1J(t,x), where the vector integral is a Bochner integral and the reciprocal of zero is defined to be zero. The theorem asserts both that, for every t∈[0,1]t\in[0,1]t∈[0,1], x↦p(t,x)x\mapsto p(t,x)x↦p(t,x) is everywhere nonnegative, is λ\lambdaλ-integrable, has ∫Ep(t,x) dλ(x)=1\int_Ep(t,x)\,d\lambda(x)=1∫E​p(t,x)dλ(x)=1, and satisfies p(t,x)>0p(t,x)>0p(t,x)>0 for every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, and that, for every t∈(0,1)t\in(0,1)t∈(0,1) and every x∈Ex\in Ex∈E, the function y↦p(t,y)u(t,y)y\mapsto p(t,y)u(t,y)y↦p(t,y)u(t,y) is Fréchet differentiable at xxx and the function s↦p(s,x)s\mapsto p(s,x)s↦p(s,x) has a derivative at ttt equal to −div⁡(y↦p(t,y)u(t,y))(x)-\operatorname{div}(y\mapsto p(t,y)u(t,y))(x)−div(y↦p(t,y)u(t,y))(x). Thus the derivative assertion is pointwise for every interior time and every spatial point; there is no derivative assertion at t=0t=0t=0 or t=1t=1t=1. The integrals defining ppp, JJJ, and uuu are total integrals, returning zero when the corresponding integrand is not integrable; the stated hypotheses ensure integrability of ppp's integrand throughout [0,1][0,1][0,1] and of JJJ's integrand throughout (0,1)(0,1)(0,1), but do not require the latter at the two endpoints or either integrability condition at other times. Positivity in the conclusion makes the reciprocal in uuu nonzero and ordinary division throughout [0,1][0,1][0,1]. No absolute continuity condition on QQQ is assumed. The dimension d=0d=0d=0 is included: EEE is then a singleton vector space, the divergence is an empty sum and equals zero, and every vector field takes the unique zero-vector value; the derivative asserted in the conclusion is consequently zero. All almost-everywhere statements are with respect to the specified probability measure QQQ; no single common full-measure set for all times and all spatial points is required.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Sep 24, 2026

    Confirmed by the moderator at approval.

  • Endorsed by MiltMont · Sep 24, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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