The linearly growing barrier of lem:aniso:comparison #
The comparison argument for eq:aniso:comparison:equation is run against the barrier
eq:aniso:comparison:barrier
Ψ_σ(x, τ) = M + σ (⟨x⟩ + K (τ - τ₀)), ⟨x⟩ = (1 + |x|²)^{1/2},
which grows linearly at infinity and is a supersolution of the drift-diffusion operator
∂_τ + B·∇ - Δ_X once the rate K dominates the drift bound and the number d of
diffusive directions.
The Japanese bracket ⟨x⟩ is smooth on Vec m, bounds every coordinate, has gradient of
length at most one, and has partial Laplacian at most d. Its derivatives are computed with
the explicit iterated fderiv … (basisVec i), and the barrier facts are then restated with
timeDeriv, gradPair, and partialLaplacian, so that they can be substituted into the
distributional formulation of eq:aniso:comparison:equation directly.
The carrier of Vec m is the sup norm, for which the Cauchy-Schwarz bound on B·∇⟨x⟩
carries the dimensional factor √m; the rate is therefore K = √m Λ + d instead of the
Λ + d of the printed proof, which measures the drift in the Euclidean norm. The inequality
of eq:aniso:comparison:barrier is unaffected: only the size of K changes, and the
comparison argument uses no upper bound on K.
The Japanese bracket #
The Euclidean length of x is at most ⟨x⟩.
Every coordinate of x is bounded by ⟨x⟩.
The sup norm of x is bounded by ⟨x⟩.
First derivatives #
The gradient of ⟨x⟩ paired with a vector: ∇⟨x⟩ · v = (x · v) / ⟨x⟩.
The coordinate partial derivative ∂_i⟨x⟩ = x_i / ⟨x⟩.
The gradient of ⟨x⟩ has Euclidean length at most one: ∑_i (∂_i⟨x⟩)² ≤ 1.
Second derivatives #
The second coordinate derivative ∂_i∂_i⟨x⟩ = (⟨x⟩² - x_i²) / ⟨x⟩³.
The second coordinate derivatives of ⟨x⟩ are bounded by one.
The partial Laplacian of ⟨x⟩ in the first d coordinates is at most d.
The second coordinate derivatives of ⟨x⟩ are nonnegative: ⟨x⟩² - x_i² = 1 + ∑_{j ≠ i} x_j² ≥ 0, so the whole quotient by ⟨x⟩³ > 0 is nonnegative.
The partial Laplacian of ⟨x⟩ in the first d coordinates is nonnegative: a sum of
nonnegative terms.
The barrier Ψ_σ #
The second spatial derivatives of the barrier:
∂_i∂_iΨ_σ = σ (⟨x⟩² - x_i²) / ⟨x⟩³.
The partial Laplacian of the barrier in the first d coordinates is nonnegative: the same
term-by-term rescaling as sum_ite_fderiv_fderiv_barrier_le, against
sum_ite_fderiv_fderiv_japaneseBracket_nonneg instead of the upper bound.
The barrier against the drift-diffusion operator #
The supersolution inequality of eq:aniso:comparison:barrier: with the rate
K = √m Λ + d the barrier satisfies ∂_τΨ_σ + B·∇Ψ_σ - Δ_XΨ_σ ≥ 0 at every point where
the drift is bounded by Λ.
An upper bound on the barrier's supersolution slack. barrier_supersolution bounds
∂_τΨ_σ + B·∇Ψ_σ - Δ_XΨ_σ from below by 0; this bounds the same quantity from above, by
σ (2 √m Λ + d), from the exact value of ∂_τΨ_σ, the Cauchy–Schwarz bound on ∇Ψ_σ·B, and
partialLaplacian_barrier_nonneg (dropping the Laplacian term, which can only decrease the
slack).