Passing a drift-diffusion residual to the limit #
Generic in the ambient dimension m, the truncation dimension d, and the time horizon T:
given a sequence of scalars qn converging to q in L¹_{loc} and a sequence of drifts
(b n, divb n) converging weak-* to an admissible drift (B, divB), this file shows that if
the finite-n distributional pairing of qn n against the drift-diffusion residual built from
(b n, divb n) tends to zero for every test function, then the limit data (B, divB, q) solves
eq:aniso:comparison:equation exactly (CIV.IsDistributionalDriftDiffusion).
The four terms of the residual — the time derivative, the drift-gradient pairing, the
divergence pairing, and the truncated Laplacian — are passed to the limit by four different
mechanisms: the two terms free of the drift use only the strong L¹_{loc} convergence of qn
against a fixed weight, while the two drift terms split into a vanishing piece (handled the
same way, since the drift stays uniformly bounded) and a piece driven directly by the weak-*
hypothesis. A limit-uniqueness argument against the hypothesis that the finite-n residual
itself tends to zero then identifies the sum of the four limits as zero.
Elementary sequence lemmas #
A finite sum of a.e. strongly measurable functions is a.e. strongly measurable.
If a n is eventually within b n of L and b n → 0, then a n → L.
A product f_n · g_n, vanishing outside a fixed compact set K, tends to 0 in integral
provided f_n → 0 in the L¹(K) sense (∫⁻_K ‖f_n‖ₑ → 0) and g_n is eventually bounded by a
fixed constant on K. This is the generic dominated-convergence mechanism behind passing a
strongly convergent factor times an eventually-bounded factor to the limit.
A function a.e.-bounded on a compact set is integrable there.
A product f · w, with f a.e.-bounded on a compact set K and w a.e.-bounded and
vanishing outside K, is globally integrable.
Passing a factor converging strongly in L¹(K) against a fixed weight w, bounded and
vanishing outside K, to the limit: the workhorse for the time-derivative and Laplacian
pairings, which do not involve the drift.