Plane electromagnetic wave in a linear medium Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A plane wave in a homogeneous linear medium satisfies
Nilpotent group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
A group is nilpotent when it has a finite central series, equivalently when its lower central series reaches the identity.
Weak solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A weak solution satisfies an integrated identity in which derivatives are transferred to test functions. It can therefore exist with fewer classical derivatives.
Classical solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A classical solution has enough ordinary derivatives for the differential equation and its data to hold pointwise. For the heat equation, and should be continuous in the interior, with the specified initial and boundary traces. A weak solution instead imposes an integrated identity, allowing less regular data; uniqueness must always be stated for the solution class used.
Ladyzhenskaya inequality in two dimensions Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This is the two-dimensional form of Ladyzhenskaya's inequality. For ,
Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus to in each coordinate, multiply the resulting one-dimensional bounds, integrate, and use Cauchy--Schwarz.
Sobolev embedding theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
If , then embeds continuously into bounded continuous functions.
Regularity gain for one plus an even power of the Laplacian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If distributionally on , is even, and , then
and .
Sobolev trace theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
This theorem describes the continuous extension of the Trace operator. For , restriction to the coordinate hyperplane extends uniquely to a bounded linear map
In Fourier variables, Cauchy--Schwarz bounds the integral over the normal frequency because is integrable exactly when .
Compactness from bounded support and an H2 bound Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A sequence bounded in whose members are supported in one bounded set has a subsequence converging strongly in . Apply Rellich compactness simultaneously to the functions and their first derivatives.
Massive Laplacian isomorphism on Sobolev spaces Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For every real ,
is an isomorphism. Its inverse is the Fourier multiplier .
Sobolev derivative estimate Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For every multi-index and real ,
This follows from the Fourier multiplier .
Poincaré inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A Poincare inequality controls a function by its derivatives after the constant ambiguity has been removed. For example, on a bounded connected Lipschitz domain,
Campanato space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Campanato seminorm measures mean oscillation by
On regular bounded domains, for , with equivalent norms.
Affine Sobolev space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For prescribed boundary data , the affine Sobolev space
consists of the functions whose trace equals the trace of . It is the natural admissible set for a variational Dirichlet problem.
Sobolev space with a partial Dirichlet condition Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a boundary portion , the space
is the kernel of the restricted trace map, hence a closed vector subspace of .
First-order Sobolev space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For an open set and , the first-order Sobolev space is
where each is a weak derivative. Its standard norm is .
Orientable smooth manifold Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A smooth manifold is orientable when it admits an atlas whose transition maps have positive Jacobian determinant wherever they are defined.
This atlas criterion expresses orientability for a differentiable manifold.
Partition of unity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Every open cover of a smooth paracompact manifold admits a smooth partition of unity subordinate to it: nonnegative smooth functions with locally finite supports in the cover whose sum is one.
Smooth map between manifolds Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A map between smooth manifolds is smooth when its expression in every pair of coordinate charts is a smooth function.
A map between smooth manifolds is smooth when its coordinate expressions in compatible charts have derivatives of every order. The condition is invariant under smooth chart changes and expresses smoothness in charts.
Abstract smooth surface Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An abstract smooth surface is a two-dimensional smooth manifold. Thus it is a Hausdorff second-countable space with an atlas of plane-valued coordinate charts whose transition maps are smooth.

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