Writing the velocity as gives
so the flow is incompressible. With the convention
a stream function is
The streamlines are its level sets. For , they are the hyperbolas
with separatrices and a saddle at the origin. For , they are concentric ellipses
traversed clockwise. This is the streamline classification of a planar linear saddle or centre.
The scalar vorticity is
Hence the flow is irrotational exactly when
Then , and a velocity potential is
Vanishing net charge density does not require vanishing current. Positive and negative charge carriers can cancel in charge density while their oppositely directed motions add to a nonzero current. Charge conservation only requires
for magnetostatics this becomes .
Because , one may introduce a magnetic vector potential with
It is not unique: gives the same field for any scalar .
For the stated current,
so it is consistent with stationary charge conservation. Direct calculation gives
Thus is a Beltrami field. For , choose
Then and . A convenient Coulomb-gauge potential is
since and . Gradient gauge terms may of course be added.
If , the current is the constant field . The formulas involving do not apply; one valid choice is
Multiplication by puts the equation in Sturm-Liouville theory form:
Multiply the equations for by , subtract and integrate. The boundary term vanishes because at both endpoints and the polynomial derivatives are bounded. Therefore, for ,
This is the usual Chebyshev polynomial orthogonality.
Differentiating the original equation and writing gives
Its self-adjoint form is
The same subtraction argument now yields, for ,
These two relations form the Chebyshev derivative Sturm-Liouville pair.
A map is a contraction if there is a constant such that
for every .
The contraction mapping theorem states that a contraction of a nonempty complete metric space has a unique fixed point, and that the iterates from every starting point converge to it. To prove this, choose and put . Then
so, for ,
Thus is Cauchy and converges, by completeness, to some . A contraction is continuous, so
If is another fixed point, then
forcing .
For the Newton map
one has and
On the given neighbourhood,
Since , choose a closed interval centred at and contained in so small that there. Then
so and is a contraction on the complete interval . The local contraction proof for Newton iteration therefore shows that is the unique fixed point of on .
The Eisenstein criterion says that a primitive polynomial
is irreducible if there is a prime such that
By the Gauss lemma for polynomials, irreducibility over and over agree for primitive polynomials.
If the urn contains green balls, it contains red balls: both update rules preserve the difference . Until absorption at , the green count is therefore a birth-death chain with
The function
is harmonic, since
Let and be the hitting times of and . The optional sampling theorem for a supermartingale, applied to the bounded stopped martingale , gives
Solving,
Letting , the events on the left increase to eventual termination. The harmonic hitting probability for the balanced-difference urn is therefore
A gauge transformation is
Because partial derivatives commute, the added contribution to is
so the electromagnetic field tensor is gauge invariant.
Define
Since and ,
The identity
follows directly from . Its spatial and mixed components are
For the other two equations define the four-current
Then gives
and gives
This is the Covariant Maxwell equation with the minus-plus-plus-plus metric.
Using
one finds
This is the electromagnetic energy density.
For a null vector, the trace term in vanishes. Put
Antisymmetry gives . A vector orthogonal to a null vector has nonnegative Minkowski norm, so
Explicitly, in a frame with ,
Hence the null energy condition for the electromagnetic field is strict whenever the contraction is nonzero:

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