BoundaryFreezingRadius #
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Freezing at a point of a closed axis cube #
At any point of the closed cube — a face, an edge or a corner included — the coefficient frozen and normalized at that point equals the identity there. Continuity on the closed cube therefore produces a radius on which it stays uniformly close to the identity, and the finitely many coordinate gaps produce a radius on which no unincident face is met. Taking the smaller of the two radii gives the scale at which the boundary sector is the intersection of a ball with the cube and the frozen coefficient has small contrast.
A coefficient whose symmetric part is the scalar matrix nu * I is elliptic
with lower constant nu, and its upper constant is controlled by any bound on
the operator norm of its skew part; on a compact set continuity supplies such a
bound. So continuity alone, with no restriction on the size of the skew part,
produces a full ellipticity certificate.
1. Continuity of the distance to the identity #
The operator distance of a matrix from the identity is continuous.
2. Measurability of the frozen coefficient #
3. The freezing radius at a point of the closed cube #
A radius at a point of the closed cube on which no unincident face is met
and the frozen normalized coefficient is delta-close to the identity.
4. Ellipticity from a scalar symmetric part and a bounded skew part #
Ellipticity of a matrix with scalar symmetric part. If the symmetric
part of A is nu * I then the quadratic form of A is exactly nu |xi|^2,
and the skew part contributes nothing to it, so an operator-norm bound M on
the skew part gives the flux inequality with upper constant
(nu ^ 2 + M ^ 2) / nu. No smallness of the skew part is required.
Ellipticity of a continuous coefficient field with scalar symmetric
part. A bound M on the operator norm of the skew part over a set K
carrying the continuity gives the ellipticity certificate on every measurable
subset W of K, with constants nu and (nu ^ 2 + M ^ 2) / nu.
Ellipticity from compactness and continuity alone. On a compact set the skew part is bounded, so a coefficient with scalar symmetric part and continuous skew part of arbitrary size is elliptic on every measurable subset, with constants that compactness supplies.