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.