Weak continuity and initial trace of the heat orbit #
The Gaussian kernel is even, so the pairing of the heat orbit of an L² datum
with an integrable test field equals the pairing of the datum with the heat
orbit of the test field. For a smooth compactly supported test field the
latter heat orbit is continuous in time, converges to the test field as time
decreases to zero, and has a cubic spatial tail uniformly in time, so dominated
convergence gives the weak continuity and the initial trace of the heat orbit
required in prop:pv-local-solution.
The Gaussian convolution is symmetric: pairing the heat orbit of an L²
datum with an integrable function equals pairing the datum with the heat
orbit of that function.
The pairing of the datum with the heat orbit of a smooth compactly supported test function is continuous in positive time and converges to the pairing with the test function as time decreases to zero.
(h7) The heat orbit of a datum in J is weakly continuous on (0, τ] and
attains the datum weakly as time decreases to zero.