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LeanPool.CIVAxisymmetric.Prerequisites.Serrin.HeatOperatorLeibniz

The Leibniz rule for the heat operator #

The heat operator ∂ₜ - Δ obeys a product rule on any open set where both factors are jointly smooth: (∂ₜ - Δ)(χ w) = χ (∂ₜ - Δ) w + w (∂ₜ - Δ) χ - 2 ∇χ · ∇w. This is the pointwise identity that expands the cutoff-and-heat-kernel product in the interior estimates of the proof of lem:aniso:annulus, before the divergence term coming from w's own equation is substituted in.

The Leibniz rule for the heat operator ∂ₜ - Δ applied to a product of two functions that are jointly smooth on a common open set (the corresponding statement, the cutoff-decomposition step of the proof of lem:aniso:annulus).