The exterior vorticity at the terminal face #
lem:vorticity-top-extension: the vorticity of a suitable weak solution which is bounded, with
bounded gradient energy, on every unit past cylinder centred in the exterior region
{|x| > R₂} × (-2, 0), and whose velocity has zero weak trace at time zero, has a representative
continuous on {|x| > R₂} × (-2, 0], vanishing at time zero, bounded, with space-time weak
derivatives in L² on bounded sets, satisfying |∂ₜω - Δω| ≤ C (|ω| + |∇ω|).
The representative is glued from the continuous representatives of thm:vorticity-regularity on
the half-cylinders below the points of the exterior region, including those with top at time
zero; the weak derivatives are glued from a countable family of half-cylinders and a smooth
partition of unity.
lem:vorticity-top-extension.