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LeanPool.CIVAxisymmetric.Prerequisites.Serrin.ForwardHeatRepresentation

The forward heat representation of a compactly supported test function #

For a smooth, compactly supported ζ : Vec3 × ℝ → ℝ, the value ζ (x, s) is recovered from the image of ζ under the forward heat operator ∂ₜ - Δ, convolved against the causal heat kernel run backward from (x, s): ζ (x, s) = ∫ Γ(x - z.1, s - z.2) (∂ₜζ - Δζ) z. Since heatKernel vanishes for a nonpositive second argument, the integral is effectively over the past {z | z.2 < s}. This is the base case of the pointwise heat-potential bound used for the interior estimates in the proof of lem:aniso:annulus.

The proof reduces to CKN's backwardTestPotential_heat_equation (which differentiates the potential of a compactly supported source) applied to the time-reflection of ζ, combined with the (heat-equation-free) fact that differentiation commutes with backwardTestPotential. This converts CKN's "potential of a derivative recovers a delta-tested value" statement about the future-integrating kernel into the forward, past-integrating representation stated here; no uniqueness argument for the heat equation is used anywhere.

Time-reflection of a space-time function.

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    The map t ↦ (x - t.1, t.2 - r) is measure preserving on Vec3 × ℝ.