Local energy estimate for smooth solutions of the heat equation #
For a smooth solution of ∂ₜ w - Δ w = div F on a cylinder B_R × (a, b), a space-time cutoff
vanishing near the bottom of the cylinder gives the interior bound for the spatial L² norm of
w at every later time up to the top and for the spatial gradient of w in L², in terms of
the L² norms of w and F on the cylinder. This is the smooth estimate behind the energy
levels of thm:vorticity-regularity.
The residual of the localized heat equation: the product η w solves the heat equation with
the flux η F - 2 w ∇η, up to lower-order cutoff terms and η times the residual of w.
Euclidean balls lie in the closed coordinate balls of the same radius.
Continuous functions are integrable on bounded boxes.
Continuous functions are integrable on Euclidean balls.
Fubini on a space-time box, with the time integral outside.
A continuous function vanishing outside a compact spatial set has integrable spatial slices and a continuous spatial integral.
Spatial derivative of a separated product G(x) c(t).
Time derivative of a separated product G(x) c(t).
Outside the topological support, a function and its first two coordinate derivatives vanish.
The pointwise algebra of the localized energy: the localized flux and residual are controlled by the solution and its flux, given bounds for the cutoff and its derivatives.
Local energy estimate for smooth solutions of ∂ₜ w - Δ w = div F on B_R(x₀) × (a, b):
the spatial L² norm on the inner ball at every time from a + κ to the top, and the spatial
gradient in L² on the inner cylinder, are bounded by the L² norms of w and F on the whole
cylinder. The constant depends only on the radii and on κ (thm:vorticity-regularity).