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Nearby initial values share one Picard–Lindelöf time interval and one state cylinder
Statement
Under the hypotheses of Picard-Lindelof at , there are such that every initial value with and has a unique solution on , and all these solution graphs lie in one compact time-state cylinder.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A compact cylinder contained in the open ODE domain and a smaller cylinder with positive distance from its boundary.
On a cylinder with bound , state-Lipschitz constant , , and , Picard-Lindelöf gives exactly one solution on the full interval of half-length whose graph lies in that cylinder (Picard-Lindelöf local existence and uniqueness for first-order systems).
A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space has bounded image and attains its extrema (A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value).
Proof
On the larger compact cylinder, [L2] bounds by a common , while local state-Lipschitz continuity and a finite compact cover give a common ; the smaller cylinder has a positive spatial and temporal boundary margin.
Choose one radius below the spatial margin and one below the temporal margin so that and ; then [L1] applies with these same data to every initial point in the smaller cylinder, giving the asserted common time and graph cylinder.
Depends on
Picard-Lindelöf local existence and uniqueness for first-order systems
A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value
Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line