High-contrast homogenization: Geometry.AnnealedSharpOrder #
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The annealed sharp order #
The annealed primal-adjoint order says that the expectation of the random block
matrix A(U) dominates its own sharp: E(U)^♯ ≤ E(U). The reference proof has
three moves: an algebraic identity, an external pathwise bound, and matrix
Jensen.
The primal-adjoint involution F ↦ R F⁻¹ R and the dual block, formed with the
swap matrix R of s.scale.selection, make the inverse of the sharp
conjugation by the reflection, so the random matrix Z := R A R has Z⁻¹ = A^♯;
that is fullBlockSharp_inv below. The pathwise block order, which gives
0 < A^♯ ≤ A along every realization, is one of the properties of the coarse
block that s.introduction takes from HC: it is not proved here and appears as
the explicit hypothesis hsharp. It is what makes
both Z and Z⁻¹ integrable, so that no inverse moment is needed. Matrix
Jensen then gives (E Z)⁻¹ ≤ E (Z⁻¹), and the chain
E(U)^♯ = (E Z)⁻¹ ≤ E (Z⁻¹) = E (A^♯) ≤ E (A) = E(U)
closes the lemma, the last step being monotonicity of the average.
The dual identity: the inverse of the sharp is conjugation by the reflection.
Conjugation by the reflection recovers the sharp, in the direction the averaging argument uses.
Conjugation by the reflection keeps an integrable function integrable.
Conjugation by the reflection commutes with the average, the reflection being a fixed matrix.
The annealed primal-adjoint order: the average of a random positive
definite block matrix dominates its own sharp. The pathwise block order enters
as the hypothesis hsharp; it is one of the properties of the coarse block
taken from HC and is not proved here.