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LeanPool.CaffarelliKohnNirenberg.Leray.ForcePressureOrthogonality

The force-pressure gradient is orthogonal to divergence-free fields #

By Plancherel and the self-adjointness of the frequency projection, the Leray projection fixes the pairing with every weakly divergence-free field. Hence the field (I - ℙ) f of lem:force-pressure is L²-orthogonal to all weakly divergence-free fields.

The real pairing of a real part is the real part of the complex pairing with the complexification.

Complexification preserves the real L² pairing.

The Leray projection does not change the pairing with a field whose Fourier transform is orthogonal to the frequency almost everywhere.

The real Leray projection fixes the pairing with every field whose representative is weakly divergence-free.

The force-pressure gradient field (I - ℙ) f of lem:force-pressure is L²-orthogonal to every weakly divergence-free field.