Space-time Sobolev families of the Leray projection #
prop:lps-smoothing: if a vector field B lies in L²(I; H^M(ℝ³)), with space-time
derivative families DB, then the time slices of the Leray projection -P B(t) form a field
in L²(I; H^M(ℝ³)): for each word α the curve t ↦ -P(DB α)(t) of L² classes is
measurable, and a jointly measurable representative gives the derivative family. The
projection commutes with weak derivatives and does not increase L² norms, so the new family
satisfies the weak derivative relations and has norm at most that of DB.
A square-integrable function on a slab has a strongly measurable curve of L²(ℝ³) classes
agreeing with almost every time slice (prop:lps-smoothing).
A curve of fields in L²(ℝ³; ℝ³) whose three components are strongly measurable curves is
strongly measurable (prop:lps-smoothing).
prop:lps-smoothing: the Leray projection of a field in L²(I; H^M(ℝ³)). If the three
components f k have space-time derivative families DB k through order M on
ℝ³ × (a, b), and almost every time slice of g is the negative Leray projection of the
slice of f, then g has space-time derivative families through order M whose total
squared norm is at most that of DB.
prop:lps-smoothing: the source of a strong solution in L²(I; H^M). On a time interval
(a, b) ⊆ (t₀, T), if the convection field (u·∇)u, with components Σⱼ uⱼ ∂ⱼuᵢ, has
space-time derivative families DB through order M, then so does the source
∂ₜu - Δu = -P((u·∇)u), with total squared L²(I; H^M) norm at most that of DB.