The comparison principle applied to the two ancient limits of prop:aniso:small #
The last step of each branch of the zoom argument of prop:aniso:small applies the last
assertion of lem:aniso:comparison to the limiting scalar:
- in the finite-axis case, to the lifted limit
Ω_∞(X, Z, τ) = Ω(|X|, Z, τ)of the rescaled potential vorticities onℝ⁴ × ℝ × (-∞, -1), with(m, d) = (5, 4)andκ = 3/2 + h(the paragraph aftereq:aniso:zoom:finite:limit); - in the receding-axis case, to the limit
Θof the rescaled azimuthal vorticities onℝ² × (-∞, -1), with(m, d) = (2, 1)andκ = 1 + h(the paragraph aftereq:aniso:zoom:receding:limit).
In both cases the limit is continuous on the relevant open set up to the endpoint τ = -1
(it is a locally uniform limit) and obeys the decay bound inherited from
eq:aniso:zoom:finite:bound or eq:aniso:zoom:receding:bound. The two theorems below take
exactly these facts, together with the admissible drift and the distributional limit equation,
and conclude that the limit vanishes at every point of {τ = -1} (off the axis in the
finite-axis case). The local boundedness, the measurability and the decay premise of the
comparison lemma are derived here from the continuity and the pointwise bound; the axis
{X = 0} of the lifted variables is a null set.
The axis of the lifted variables is a null set #
The axis {X = 0} of the lifted variables Vec 5 × ℝ is contained in the null
hyperplane {X₀ = 0}.
Almost every lifted point lies off the axis.
Almost every lifted spatial point lies off the axis.
The finite-axis case, (m, d) = (5, 4) #
The lift of a function continuous on {R > 0, τ ≤ -1} and bounded there by
C |τ|^{-3/2-h} is locally bounded on ℝ⁵ × (-∞, -1) (the axis is a null set).
The comparison principle applied to the finite-axis limit (the paragraph after
eq:aniso:zoom:finite:limit): a function Ω of ((R, Z), τ), continuous on
{R > 0, τ ≤ -1} and bounded there by C |τ|^{-3/2-h}, whose lift to ℝ⁴ × ℝ solves the limit
equation eq:aniso:zoom:finite:limit in the sense of distributions on (-∞, -1) with an
admissible drift, vanishes at every point (R, Z, -1) with R > 0. This is the last
assertion of lem:aniso:comparison with (m, d) = (5, 4) and κ = 3/2 + h.
The receding-axis case, (m, d) = (2, 1) #
The comparison principle applied to the receding-axis limit (the paragraph after
eq:aniso:zoom:receding:limit): a function Θ of ((R, Z), τ), continuous on {τ ≤ -1} and
bounded there by C |τ|^{-1-h}, which solves the limit equation
eq:aniso:zoom:receding:limit:a in the sense of distributions on ℝ² × (-∞, -1) with an
admissible drift and diffusion in R alone, vanishes at every point (R, Z, -1). This is the
last assertion of lem:aniso:comparison with (m, d) = (2, 1) and κ = 1 + h.