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Along a characteristic curve, the Liouville equation gives $d[f({\Phi }_t(z_0),t)]/dt=0$. HenceComposition preserves nonnegativity, so $f\ge 0$. For locally integrable data this formula defines the transported weak solution, and the Lipschitz invertible flow preserves null sets locally. Thus the same assertion holds almost everywhere without requiring pointwise smooth data.

Write $z=(x,v)$ and $B(z)=(v,-\nabla V(x))$. The characteristic flow map ${\Phi }_t$ solves $\dot{z}=B(z)$. Its vector field is globally Lipschitz continuous, so Picard-Lindelöf theorem gives a unique global flow with inverse ${\Phi }_{-t}$. Also ${\mathrm{div}}_{z}B=0$.

The proposed Dirac measure is the unit mass at ${\Phi }_t(z_0)$. For every compactly supported smooth test function $\psi$,This is the weak formulation of $f_t+\mathrm{div}(Bf)=0$, equal to the Liouville equation because $\mathrm{div}B=0$. The initial unit mass is recovered at $t=0$. The characteristic equations are precisely $\dot{\hat{x}}=\hat{v}$, $\dot{\hat{v}}=-\nabla V(\hat{x})$; the time-derivative dots, lost in the converted text, are present in the PDF.

For the quadratic potential the characteristic curves are harmonic oscillations:The inverse is $x_0=x\cos t-v\sin t$, $v_0=v\cos t+x\sin t$. Therefore the Liouville equation has solutionThis formula works for smooth data or by transport for locally integrable data, and for measures by pushforward. Although the quadratic $V$ itself is not globally Lipschitz as in the initial sufficient hypotheses, its gradient is globally Lipschitz, which is the property actually needed for this global flow.

Write $F_{12}={\partial }_1{A}_2-{\partial }_2{A}_1$. Up to a total derivative, the covariant-gradient identity and completion of the magnetic and potential terms giveFor positive flux, equality in the Bogomolny bound therefore gives the Bogomolny vortex equationsThe opposite simultaneous signs describe negative winding.

For the orientation $d{x}^1\wedge d{x}^2>0$, the Hodge star operator isThus

A radial vortex of winding $N>0$ haswith $f(0)=a(0)=0$, $f(1)=1$, $a(1)=N$, and equations

For $e^{2\rho }=8/(1-|z{|}^2{)}^2$, put $u=\log |\Phi |$. Away from zeros, the first vortex equation givesSincethe field $\psi =u-\log (1-z\bar{z})+\log 2$ satisfies the Liouville equationFor holomorphic $g:D\to D$, direct use of the Cauchy-Riemann equations verifiesChoosing $g(z)=z^{N+1}$ gives the radial Witten hyperbolic vortexFor $N=1$ these reduce toSince $Bd{\mu }_g=dA=a_1^{\prime }(r)dr\wedge d\theta$,This directly verifies the Abelian Higgs vortex flux relation for unit winding.