Weak continuity of the Leray–Hopf limit #
This is the weak-continuity clause (LH2) of def:leray-hopf in the proof of
prop:leray-hopf-limit. Every slice of the limit lies in the L² closure of
smooth, compactly supported, divergence-free fields. Pairings with such fields
are Lipschitz in time by the uniform modulus of lem:reg-equicontinuity, and
the uniform energy bound extends continuity to every L² field: the
component orthogonal to the solenoidal fields pairs to zero.
Continuity of the pairings on a spanning family extends to all tests when the curve stays bounded in the closed span of the family.
The Euclidean L² elements of smooth, compactly supported, divergence-free
coordinate fields.
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Every weakly divergence-free L² field lies in the closure of the smooth
compactly supported solenoidal tests.
A Lipschitz bound for approximating pairings passes to their pointwise limits.
The weak-continuity clause (LH2): if every slice is a weakly
divergence-free L² field with a uniform bound, and the pairings with smooth
compactly supported solenoidal fields are Lipschitz in time, then the pairing
with every L² field is continuous on [0,T].