Solution

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Write and . The characteristic flow map solves . Its vector field is globally Lipschitz continuous, so Picard-Lindelöf theorem gives a unique global flow with inverse . Also .
The proposed Dirac measure is the unit mass at . For every compactly supported smooth test function ,
This is the weak formulation of , equal to the Liouville equation because . The initial unit mass is recovered at . The characteristic equations are precisely , ; the time-derivative dots, lost in the converted text, are present in the PDF.

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