# Isotropic realizability of fields and reconstruction of invariant measures under positivity properties. Asymptotics of the flow by a non-ergodic approach

## TL;DR

This paper investigates conditions for the isotropic realizability of vector fields and introduces a new criterion for invariant measures, providing insights into flow asymptotics without relying on classical ergodic assumptions.

## Contribution

It establishes new positivity conditions for realizability, explores limitations in periodic cases, and proposes an alternative criterion for invariant measures based on gradient invertibility.

## Key findings

- Realizability holds under certain positivity conditions.
- Existence of invariant measures is linked to gradient invertibility.
- Flow asymptotics can be studied without classical ergodic assumptions.

## Abstract

The paper is devoted to the isotropic realizability of a regular gradient field u or a more general vector field b, namely the existence of a continuous positive function $\sigma$ such that $\sigma$b is divergence free in R d or in an open set of R d. First, we prove that under some suitable positivity condition satisfied by u, the isotropic realizability of u holds either in R d if u does not vanish, or in the open sets {c j < u < c j+1 } if the c j are the critical values of u (including inf R d u and sup R d u) which are assumed to be in finite number. It turns out that this positivity condition is not sufficient to ensure the existence of a continuous positive invariant measure $\sigma$ on the torus when u is periodic. Then, we establish a new criterium of the existence of an invariant measure for the flow associated with a regular periodic vector field b, which is based on the equality b $\times$ v = 1 in R d. We show that this gradient invertibility is not related to the classical ergodic assumption, but it actually appears as an alternative to get the asymptotics of the flow.