High-contrast homogenization: Analytic.NormEquivalence #
Imported from the Apache-2.0 HighContrastHomogenization development at commit
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Removing the coefficient field from the approximation conditions #
h1sNormSqOn b V u Du is ‖u‖_{L¹(V)}² + ∫_V Du · σ Du, the squared H¹_s
norm of s.introduction evaluated on a pair (u, Du). Only the second
summand sees the coefficient field, and where the field is uniformly elliptic
almost everywhere on V it is pinched between lam and Lam multiples of
∫_V ‖Du‖², with the constants of V. The whole quantity is therefore
two-sidedly comparable to an unweighted companion, and a sequence tends to 0 in
one exactly when it does in the other: every approximation condition of the
membership classes is a condition on the classical unweighted space, with the
rough coefficient field absent from it.
The ellipticity hypothesis is not removable, but it is a per-set hypothesis: what
the comparison needs on V is a pair of constants for V. Both comparison
constants, min 1 lam and max 1 Lam, degenerate without it, and the
equivalence fails for a coefficient field whose symmetric part is not bounded
below on V.
The second section treats the skew part, which the comparison says nothing
about: on every bounded set, with that set's constants, the two inequalities
packaged in IsEllipticMatrix bound the whole matrix, hence its skew part, by
Lam.
The norm-equivalence reduction #
h1sNormSqOn b V u Du = ‖u‖_{L¹(V)}² + ∫_V Du · s Du. Only the second summand
sees the coefficient field, and on every bounded set, with that set's constants,
it is pinched between lam and Lam multiples of ∫_V ‖Du‖² by the two halves
already proved for the weighted energy. Consequently the whole quantity is
two-sidedly comparable to the unweighted quantity below, and — the point of
this section — a sequence tends to 0 in the weighted quantity exactly when it
does in the unweighted one. The rough coefficient field is therefore absent
from the residual density question, which becomes a citable classical fact
about the ordinary space L¹(V) × L²(V) rather than an open question about
weighted spaces.
The lower half of the two-sided comparison. The constant min 1 lam is the
worse of the two summandwise constants: 1 on the L¹ term, which carries no
weight, and lam on the energy term.
The lower half of the two-sided comparison, with the pinching read on all of
ℝ^d.
The upper half of the two-sided comparison, with constant max 1 Lam and the
pinching read on V alone.
The upper half of the two-sided comparison, with constant max 1 Lam.
Domination transfers a limit 0 in ℝ≥0∞.
The reduction. On every bounded set, with that set's constants,
convergence to 0 in the weighted H¹_s quantity is equivalent to convergence
to 0 in the unweighted quantity. The coefficient field b has disappeared from the right
hand side: every remaining density question about the H¹_s part of MemH1a,
MemH1a0 and MemH1sLoc is a question about the classical unweighted space.
The reduction, with the pinching read on all of ℝ^d.
The reduction at the exact shape occurring in MemH1a, MemH1a0 and
MemH1sLoc, with the pinching read on V alone: the H¹_s approximation
condition on a smooth approximating sequence is unweighted H¹ approximation.
The reduction at the exact shape occurring in MemH1a, MemH1a0 and
MemH1sLoc: the H¹_s approximation condition on a smooth approximating
sequence is unweighted H¹ approximation.
The skew flux is not a second obstruction #
MemH1a carries a third clause beyond the H¹_s approximation, namely
skewFluxDualNorm b V (∇vₙ - Du) → 0, and the previous section says nothing
about it. One might
fear that this clause is a genuinely separate density problem, with no ambient
bound on the skew part k available — that is what "high contrast" would
normally mean.
It is not. On the class actually used here, AEUniformlyEllipticField, the two
inequalities packaged in IsEllipticMatrix (coercivity of A and coercivity of
A⁻¹) already bound the whole matrix on every bounded set, with that set's
constants, hence its skew part; the fact
is vecNormSq_matVecMul_skewPart_le_of_isEllipticMatrix in CoarseGraining. The
three lemmas below are the pointwise ingredients of the resulting domination
skewFluxDualNorm b V F ≲ Lam · lam^{-1/2} · ‖F‖_{L²(V)}, which makes the third
clause a consequence of the second rather than an independent obligation.
Only the integrability bookkeeping of the ⊤ branch of skewFluxPairing
separates these ingredients from that statement.
The skew part is bounded on the coefficient class. The uniform
ellipticity that AEUniformlyEllipticField supplies on each bounded set bounds
the whole matrix there, hence its skew part, by Lam: the high-contrast
degeneracy does not reach the skew flux.
Cauchy–Schwarz for the integrand of skewFluxPairing: it is bounded by
Lam times the product of the two Euclidean norms.
The test class of skewFluxDualNorm is bounded in L². A test of unit
weighted H¹_s norm has squared L² gradient at most lam⁻¹, so the supremum
defining the dual norm ranges over an L²-bounded family.