Uniform-in-time comparison estimates for first spatial variations.
A homogeneous linear flow with operator norm at most M grows by at most
exp (M * (t-s)) on a forward interval.
On a forward interval, the first variational solutions at two starting points differ by at most a constant times the starting-point distance and the initial direction norm. The constant is uniform in target time.
The spatial derivative of the flow has a quadratic Taylor remainder whose linear term is the continuous bilinear second variation.
The first spatial derivative of a forward flow map is differentiable, and its derivative is the continuous bilinear second variation.
On a forward compact time interval, each spatial direction of the first variation is jointly continuous in target time and base point.
The second spatial derivative of the field is globally Lipschitz in its base point, with a constant uniform in time and both directions.
The second variational flow depends Lipschitz continuously on the base point, uniformly over a forward time interval.
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