Rotations about the vertical axis and the angular mean #
Basic properties of the rotation rotZ, the rotated field rotField, and the angular
mean angularMean of eq:interior:average: the group law of the rotations, their
2π-periodicity, preservation of the Euclidean norm and hence of the balls centred on
the axis and of the unit cylinder, linearity and smoothness in the space variable, the
rotation invariance of the angular mean, and the equivalence of IsAxisymmetricOn with
pointwise rotation invariance on a rotation-invariant set (Section
sec:aniso:notation).
None of the statements needs an integrability hypothesis: the change of variables in the angular integral is the translation invariance of the interval integral of a periodic function, and the rotation commutes with the integral because it is a continuous linear automorphism.
Components and the group law #
A rotation about the vertical axis does not move the vertical coordinate.
The group law Q_{φ+ψ} = Q_φ Q_ψ.
The rotations are 2π-periodic in the angle.
Linearity, continuity, and smoothness in the space variable #
Joint continuity of the rotation in the angle and the point.
The rotation rotZ φ as a continuous linear automorphism of Vec3, with inverse
rotZ (-φ).
Equations
Instances For
The axis and the meridional plane #
The Euclidean norm, balls centred on the axis, and the unit cylinder #
Rotations preserve the Euclidean norm.
The unit cylinder is invariant under every rotation about the axis.
The rotated field #
The rotated fields compose according to the group law, ℛ_φ ℛ_ψ = ℛ_{φ+ψ}.
At a fixed point, the rotated field is a 2π-periodic function of the angle.
The angular mean #
The integral over a period of a periodic function is translation invariant.
A field fixed by every rotation is its own angular mean.
The angular mean is fixed by every rotation: ℛ_ψ 𝒫u = 𝒫u.
The angular mean of a rotated field is the angular mean of the field: 𝒫 ℛ_ψ u = 𝒫u.
The angular mean is a projection: 𝒫 𝒫u = 𝒫u.
Axisymmetry on a set #
On a rotation-invariant set, an axisymmetric field is fixed pointwise by every rotation.
On a rotation-invariant set, axisymmetry is pointwise invariance under every rotation.
Axisymmetry on the unit cylinder is pointwise rotation invariance there.