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LeanPool.Superdiffusion.Algsuperdiff.Section3.Provider.Diffusivity.Corrector.HarmonicReplaceExistence

HarmonicReplaceExistence #

Ported from scottnarmstrong/Superdiffusion at 7f20476385d4af418f110303085ad0740c9eba46. Module imports, support namespace and local option directives adapted for Lean Pool.

Harmonic replacement, and the energy minimality of the correction #

Let w be an H^1 function on a bounded open convex domain U which solves, in the weak sense against H^1_0 (U) competitors, a Laplace equation with divergence-form right-hand side,

  int_U <grad w, grad psi> = int_U <G, grad psi>   for every  psi in H^1_0 (U) .

Subtracting from w the H^1_0 potential phi of the recentred forcing G - c produces h := w - phi, and the two weak formulations cancel exactly: the residual pairing is int_U <c, grad psi>, which vanishes because the mean gradient of a zero-trace function is zero. Thus h is variationally harmonic, hence -- through HarmonicReplaceBridge -- weakly harmonic in the distributional sense that the interior Weyl lemma and the oscillation decay consume.

The same solve is energy-minimal: testing the equation for phi against phi itself gives int |grad phi|^2 = int <G - c, grad phi>, and expanding the nonnegative square int |(G - c) - grad phi|^2 >= 0 turns that identity into

  int_U |grad w - grad h|^2 = int_U |grad phi|^2 <= int_U |G - c|^2 ,

for every constant c. Dividing by |U| states it as a comparison of normalized mean squares, which is the shape the oscillation telescope consumes: the deviation of the correction is bounded by the deviation of the forcing from an arbitrary constant, in particular from its own average.

No Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and no Poincare inequality is used; the argument is the completed square only.

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Portability #

This file depends only on Mathlib, on CoarseGraining (Homogenization.*) and on the harmonic layer of this same directory. It mentions no object of the manuscript: no model, no cutoff, no shell, no corrector, no sigmaBar. It is intended to be portable into CoarseGraining by a single mechanical namespace rename.

References #

Left additivity of the coordinate inner product in subtracted form.

The concentric cube z + cu_m is a bounded open convex domain, hence a legal domain for the Laplace-Dirichlet solve.

Harmonic replacement with energy minimality.

Let w be an H^1 function on a nonempty bounded open convex domain U which weakly solves - Delta w = div G against H^1_0 (U) competitors, and let c be an arbitrary constant vector. Then there is phi in H^1_0 (U) such that

  • w - phi is weakly harmonic on U in the distributional sense of HarmonicWeak, and
  • int_U |grad phi|^2 <= int_U |G - c|^2.

The first conclusion is the cancellation of the two weak formulations, using that a constant pairs to zero with the gradient of a zero-trace function; the second is the completed square.

Harmonic replacement on a concentric cube, in normalized mean-square form.

The specialization of the previous theorem to U = z + cu_m, with the energy bound divided by the volume of the cube so that both sides are the normalized mean squares that the oscillation telescope compares. Taking c to be the average of G on the cube turns the right-hand side into meanSquareOscillationVecOn (z + cu_m) G, which is the quantity the birth-scale forcing atom of OscillationApproxForcing bounds.