Constantin and Iyer's Representation Formula for the Navier-Stokes Equations on Manifolds

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to establish a probabilistic representation formula for the Navier-Stokes equations on compact Riemannian manifolds. Such a formula has been provided by Constantin and Iyer in the flat case of a"e (n) or of T (n) . On a Riemannian manifold, however, there are several different choices of Laplacian operators acting on vector fields. In this paper, we shall use the de Rham-Hodge Laplacian operator which seems more relevant to the probabilistic setting, and adopt Elworthy-Le Jan-Li's idea to decompose it as a sum of the square of Lie derivatives.