High-contrast homogenization: Provider.Sharp.ReflectionOrder #
Imported from the Apache-2.0 HighContrastHomogenization development at commit
7a13dbcd8d6609264a713373f5c69ceeac870472.
The sharp order and the two signed reflection bounds #
The primal-adjoint involution of s.scale.selection sends a doubled block H
to H^♯ = R H^{-1} R, the reflection being R = (0 I; I 0), and the pathwise
elementary block bounds assert H^♯ ≤ H. This file isolates the
linear algebra of that assertion: on a symmetric positive definite block the
sharp order is equivalent to the pair of signed reflection bounds -R ≤ H and
R ≤ H, that is, to the single scalar statement that half the doubled quadratic
form of H dominates the absolute pairing |P₁ · P₂| of the two halves of a
doubled vector.
Both directions are elementary and use no spectral theory. The quadratic form of
R at (P₁, P₂) is 2 P₁·P₂, so the two signed bounds polarize to
2 (u₁·v₂ + u₂·v₁) ≤ u·Hu + v·Hv; fed the pair u = X, v = H^{-1} R X, that
inequality gives the sharp order at X, because the mixed pairing and the second
quadratic term are then both equal to (RX)·H^{-1}(RX). Conversely the Young
inequality 2 u·v ≤ u·Hu + v·H^{-1}v, itself the expansion of
(u - H^{-1}v)·H(u - H^{-1}v) ≥ 0, evaluated at v = ±RX returns the two signed
bounds.
The direction that produces the sharp order needs no invertibility: where the
flattened block is singular the sharp is the zero block, and the two signed
bounds already force the quadratic form of H to be nonnegative.
The reflection and the dilation as quadratic forms #
The doubled quadratic form of a dilation is the dilated quadratic form.
In dimension zero every doubled quadratic form vanishes, so the block Loewner order holds between any two blocks.
The structural inverse #
The structural inverse is a right inverse where the flattened block is invertible.
The structural inverse is a right inverse of the doubled action.
The sharp quadratic form is the inverse quadratic form at the swapped vector.
Polarization of the signed bounds #
The two signed reflection bounds polarize: the mixed pairing of two doubled vectors is dominated by the sum of their quadratic forms.
The sharp order from the signed bounds #
The signed reflection bounds give the sharp order: this is the linear algebra behind the elementary block bounds. No invertibility is assumed.
The signed bounds from the sharp order #
A positive definite doubled block has a nonnegative doubled quadratic form.