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LeanPool.HighContrastHomogenization.Geometry.AspectRatioMonotone

High-contrast homogenization: Geometry.AspectRatioMonotone #

Imported from the Apache-2.0 HighContrastHomogenization development at commit 7a13dbcd8d6609264a713373f5c69ceeac870472.

Monotonicity of the reference aspect ratio #

The aspect ratio Π of e.reference.aspect.ratio is monotone for the quadratic form order on symmetric positive definite doubled blocks: if A ≤ E then Π(A) ≤ Π(E).

Both factors of Π = Λ_0 |σ_{*,0}^{-1}| are monotone, for different reasons. The spectral bound of the lower-right block is monotone because the doubled order restricts to the lower-right corner along the vectors (0, q).

The constant Λ_0 is monotone because of a slice identity: at a fixed h, the skew-corrected form of e.reference.aspect.ratio is the doubled quadratic form evaluated on the graph of h,

p · (σ + (k - h)ᵗ σ_*⁻¹ (k - h)) p = (p, h p) · H (p, h p),

which is checked by expanding the Schur parametrization into σ + (k - h)ᵗ σ_*⁻¹ (k - h) = H₁₁ + H₁₂ h + hᵗ H₂₁ + hᵗ H₂₂ h. So a doubled inequality between blocks gives, at every fixed h, an inequality of skew-corrected forms, and the defining infima are then compared term by term.

The slice identity #

The skew-corrected form of e.reference.aspect.ratio expanded in the four corners: σ + (k - h)ᵗ σ_*⁻¹ (k - h) = H₁₁ + H₁₂ h + hᵗ H₂₁ + hᵗ H₂₂ h. The Schur relations H₂₂ k = -H₂₁ and kᵗ H₂₂ = -H₁₂ cancel every term carrying the Schur skew block k.

The slice identity. The quadratic form of the skew-corrected form at p is the doubled quadratic form of the block at the vector (p, h p).

Monotonicity of the two factors #

The doubled order restricts to the lower-right corner.

At a fixed skew parameter the skew-corrected form is monotone in the block, by the slice identity.

The reference constant Λ_0 is monotone: the defining set of thresholds only grows as the block decreases.

The conclusion #

The aspect ratio is monotone for the quadratic form order on symmetric positive definite doubled blocks.