Axisymmetry on a fixed ball from axisymmetry on a shrinking core #
The reduction of Section sec:reduction:core: at a fixed time t at which the velocity
slice u(·, t) is real analytic on B(1), axisymmetry on a core ball B(ρ) with ρ > 0
propagates to all of B(1).
The argument is the one printed after eq:interior:defect. For an angle φ the defect
F_φ(x) = u(x, t) - Q_φ u(Q_φ^{-1} x, t) is real analytic on B(1), because the rotation
Q_φ is a continuous linear automorphism of the space which preserves the ball. On the core
ball F_φ vanishes, since there u agrees with its angular mean and the angular mean is
fixed by every rotation. The identity theorem on the connected set B(1) then gives
F_φ ≡ 0 on B(1); as φ is arbitrary, u is fixed by every rotation there, which is
axisymmetry.
The time variable is a spectator throughout: the analyticity radius and the core radius may
depend on t in any way, which is what eq:interior:global:symmetry needs.
Balls centred on the axis are connected #
The triangle inequality for the Euclidean norm of Vec3.
A ball centred on the axis is convex.
A ball centred on the axis is connected, so the identity theorem applies on it.
A space-time slab over a ball centred on the axis is rotation invariant.
Analyticity of the rotated slice #
If every component of the velocity slice u(·, t) is real analytic on a ball centred on
the axis, then so is every component of the rotated slice (ℛ_φ u)(·, t): the rotation is a
continuous linear automorphism preserving the ball.
The reduction #
Axisymmetry from an axisymmetric core. At a time t at which every component of
u(·, t) is real analytic on B(1), axisymmetry on a core ball B(ρ) with 0 < ρ ≤ 1
forces axisymmetry on all of B(1); this is the step from eq:interior:core to
eq:interior:global:symmetry in the proof of thm:main.
The symmetry of eq:interior:global:symmetry. If at every time of (-1, 0) the
velocity slice is real analytic on B(1) and axisymmetric on some core ball, then it is
axisymmetric on the whole unit cylinder Q. The two radii are allowed to degenerate as
t ↑ 0, at unrelated rates.
The same conclusion from the quantitative form of the analyticity of the velocity: on each
ball B(R') with R' < 1 the iterated spatial derivatives of every component obey a factorial
bound, with constants that may degenerate as R' ↑ 1 and as t ↑ 0. This is the way
eq:analytic:interior:velocity is used in the proof of thm:main.