Take the dot product of Ampère-Maxwell equation with and of Faraday's law with . The divergence of a cross product identity
then gives the local Poynting theorem
Integration and the divergence theorem produce the stated equation. Its terms are the rate of change of electromagnetic energy, the work per unit time done on charges, and the outward flux of the Poynting vector .
Let the plate separation be and their radius be , so . Between the plates,
For a circular Amperian loop of radius , the displacement current in the Ampère-Maxwell equation gives
Therefore
which points radially outward. Its flux through the cylindrical side is , exactly for the stored capacitor energy .
The positive uniform ellipticity condition from part (i) is needed here. It is not explicitly imposed in the printed preamble. Without it the conclusion is false: on , take , , and . The Neumann boundary condition is satisfied by , and for arbitrarily large shifts.
There is also an actual error in the PDF's supplied trace inequality: a nonzero constant has nonzero trace and zero gradient. Use instead the valid multiplicative trace inequality on a bounded smooth domain
For completeness, choose a smooth vector field agreeing with the outward normal vector on the boundary. The divergence theorem gives, for smooth ,
Approximation and the Sobolev trace theorem extend it to . Thus the intended existence result remains true after correcting the hint.
Set , , , , and
Uniform ellipticity and the Young inequality give
For , the bilinear form is coercive on the real Hilbert space with coercivity constant .
All coefficients are bounded, and the Sobolev trace theorem gives . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality applied to each volume and boundary term therefore proves . Also is a continuous linear functional, with . Every hypothesis of the Lax-Milgram theorem is now verified, and it gives
For the spherical average , rescaling the sphere and applying the divergence theorem gives
By continuity, as . Integrating these spherical averages in radius proves the mean value property for harmonic functions:
For the strong maximum principle for harmonic functions, suppose an interior point attains the maximum on a connected domain. The continuous nonnegative function has zero average on each sufficiently small ball around that point, so it vanishes there. The maximum set is therefore open as well as closed, and connectedness makes it the entire domain. Apply the same argument to for a minimum.
Write for the kinetic helicity density, and retain . Since is a curl, . Differentiating the density and using the equations from the preceding part gives
The divergence of a cross product gives
The first term on the right is zero, while . Thus the kinetic helicity conservation law has flux
The last equality for the flux uses the vector triple product identity. Integrating and applying the divergence theorem gives for a fixed volume. Hence its total kinetic helicity is conserved when the boundary flux vanishes; for example, tangency of both velocity field and vorticity to the boundary is sufficient. The local conservation law does not by itself imply that its density follows each fluid particle unchanged.
Work in an inertial frame centred on the centre of mass, and follow a fixed material mass, with no stellar wind or accretion through its boundary. Assume nonrelativistic motion, Newtonian self-gravity, no external gravitational field, and sufficiently regular integrable fields. Define
Here is the scalar second mass moment, rather than a moment of inertia about one axis. The kinetic energy measures resolved internal motions relative to the centre of mass; random microscopic motion contributes to pressure and internal energy, and must not be counted again in .
The paper's symmetric compressive tensor is minus the tensile stress tensor, so its force per unit volume is . Differentiating the material integral twice and substituting the equation of motion gives
Integration by parts and the divergence theorem turn the stress contribution into
For the requested scalar stellar virial theorem, assume isotropic pressure, , with uniform surface pressure . Then and the surface integral is . No spherical shape is needed for this step.
Finally, symmetrizing the pair integral for the Newtonian gravitational potential gives
Therefore
Anisotropic magnetic or viscous stresses retain their full trace and boundary terms; a changing integration mass adds transport terms.
Take to be the force and couple exerted by the body on the fluid, equivalently the external force and couple needed to maintain its motion. This fixes the sign for a positive hydrodynamic resistance matrix. If one uses the fluid's force on the body, both resultants have the opposite sign.
For two Stokes flows and in the same fluid domain , with zero body force, the Lorentz reciprocal theorem for Stokes flow is
Here points out of the fluid. To see the identity, take the divergence of the difference of the two cross-work fluxes. The stress divergences vanish, while incompressibility and symmetry of the Newtonian fluid stress tensor reduce the remaining terms to . The divergence theorem proves the result.
On the body, the no-slip boundary condition is , and the far-field contribution vanishes for decaying exterior flows. Reciprocity becomes
With and , this is for all pairs, so . The power identity gives
Equality would force zero strain throughout the connected exterior domain, hence a rigid fluid motion. Decay at infinity makes that motion zero, and the no-slip boundary condition then gives . This proves the symmetry and positivity of a rigid-body resistance matrix:
For the helix, assume and use cylindrical unit vectors. Its arclength element and tangent are
Integrating to gives . In a combined axial translation and rotation, . The slender-body force density, or local resistive-force theory, gives
Writing , , its axial and azimuthal components are
The axial couple density is . Integration over arclength gives the axial resistance matrix of a slender helix:
Thus pure translation gives , and pure rotation gives . The mixed coefficients agree, as reciprocity requires, and . The sign of follows the handedness in the parametrization; reversing handedness reverses propulsion.
For the helical microswimmer with a spherical head, the diagram's rotation relation is . Neutral buoyancy and the absence of external forcing make the whole swimmer force-free and torque-free. Neglecting interactions between its parts gives
With , solving this pair gives
The head counterrotates, providing the reaction to the flagellum's rotation. The figure fixes this relative rotation convention; it is duplicated and corrupted in the local TeX.
For a very large head, the coefficient regime is and . Consequently
The large translational resistance makes the microswimmer slow even though the flagellum rotates almost at the motor rate.
For a very small head, and . The appropriate denominator retains the translation-rotation coupling:
Both tend to zero with , while . The motor mainly rotates the low-resistance head, and produces little flagellar motion relative to the fluid.
In the intermediate coefficient regime and , the head supplies a strong rotational reaction with little translational penalty. Then
The head radius has dropped out. To find the optimal pitch of a helical microswimmer, put . The dimensionless speed becomes and has derivative . Hence, for with the chosen handedness,
The angle is measured from the horizontal plane. An intermediate pitch combines axial and transverse tangent directions, allowing anisotropic drag to convert rotation into translation; either extreme removes that coupling.
The geometric head-size regimes quoted in the paper hold with the logarithmic slenderness factor treated as fixed. More precisely, requires , while requires . These coefficient inequalities state the validity of the intermediate approximation when the logarithm is quantitatively important. The many-turn and local-drag assumptions of slender-body theory also remain in force.
Integrating the continuity equation over state space and applying the divergence theorem gives
Assume the probability density function and its derivatives decay sufficiently rapidly at infinity, or impose a zero-flux boundary condition. The boundary integral then vanishes, so is constant. Since it is initially one, the distribution remains normalized for all time.
For each incompressible Stokes flow without body force, and
The divergence theorem gives
Incompressibility removes the pressure term, antisymmetric velocity-gradient parts do not contract with the symmetric stress, and the remaining integrand is , symmetric under . This proves the Lorentz reciprocal theorem for Stokes flow:
By Linearity of Stokes flow, the drag on a translating body is linear in its velocity, so . Apply the reciprocal theorem to two translation solutions with velocities and . Their surface velocities are constant and the far-field contribution vanishes, yielding
Since the two vectors are arbitrary,
Thus the hydrodynamic resistance matrix is symmetric and, for fixed fluid viscosity, depends only on body geometry.
A straight rod has fore-aft symmetry about its centre. Gravity acts through that centre, so the translational-rotational coupling and applied torque vanish. Kinematic reversibility of Stokes flow and Uniqueness of Stokes flow then rule out spontaneous rotation: the inclination remains constant.
Let the speed for perpendicular translation be . The given factor of two makes the parallel speed for the same force component. Resolving gravity parallel and perpendicular to the rod gives
Resolving these velocities horizontally and vertically gives
Therefore
Using the Levi-Civita symbol and the epsilon-delta identity,
Therefore
One particularly simple vector potential for is
Direct differentiation gives and .
Parametrize the curved cone by
The outward oriented surface element is
Substitution and integration over , give
Because , the divergence theorem predicts that the two outward fluxes sum to zero. On the top disk , and , so, with ,
as predicted.
The outward orientation on induces the stated anticlockwise orientation on , whereas the outward orientation on induces the reverse orientation. Since , Stokes theorem predicts
On , put . Then
verifying both identities.
For an arbitrary constant vector , the product rule for divergence gives
The divergence theorem therefore implies
Since this holds for every ,
For , . The ball of radius has volume , so
On the sphere, use , and the stated outward oriented surface element. The first component of the surface integral is
and symmetry gives the same second component and a zero third component. The two sides agree.
Use and Gauss's law . The divergence theorem and the decay at infinity give
Multiplying by proves that the two expressions for the electrostatic energy agree.
The uniform volume charge density in the thick shell is
Spherical symmetry and the integral form of Gauss's law give
Thus is zero inside, rises continuously through the charged region, reaches at , and then decays as . Taking and integrating gives
The electric potential is continuous, constant inside, decreases smoothly across the charge, and continues as outside.
As , the charge becomes a surface shell. Then
The potential remains continuous, but the normal electric field jumps by across the surface charge density.
The field-energy expression gives
The charge-potential expression gives the same result directly because the entire charge lies where the potential equals :
This is the electrostatic energy of a uniformly charged spherical shell.
Since is proportional to ,
to first order. This is the work required to bring the additional charge from infinity to the potential created by the charge already present.
The free-space Green function of the Laplacian for the Poisson equation gives the electric potential
For , its electric multipole expansion begins with
Define the total electric charge and electric dipole moment by
Then
The analogous solution for the magnetic vector potential is
Its apparent coefficient is . For each component, the supplied identity and the divergence-free vector field condition give
The divergence theorem turns this into a surface integral outside the compact support of the current density, where . Hence , so the term vanishes.
Fix and . Differentiate the ball mean-value formula and apply the divergence theorem:
Since and ,
Letting and taking both maxima proves
Assume nonrelativistic pressureless matter, an initial irrotational vector field of growing-mode linear cosmological density perturbations, a homogeneous expanding background, and no shell crossing. All gradients below refer to initial comoving coordinates. Let , with , and normalize the linear growth factor by . The paper calls a growth rate, but it is the dimensionless growth factor; is its time derivative.
Writing for the actual position at , the Zeldovich approximation is, to first order,
This explicitly gives . The usual notation instead uses the uniform reference Lagrangian coordinate , with . The two labels can be interchanged inside a first-order displacement, but not in the unperturbed position without the initial displacement correction.
To determine , mass conservation between the initial and current positions gives
Demanding gives . The irrotational vector field assumption makes a gradient; the initial cosmological Poisson equation is . With the same boundary conditions for these potential equations, and after removing an irrelevant uniform translation,
The evolution of follows from the linearized peculiar-motion equation . Since cosmological Poisson equation gives to this order, substitution yields the linear growth equation
Thus the approximation extrapolates the linear growing displacement along a fixed initial direction, even as its density mapping becomes nonlinear.
The early spin of a dark matter halo comes from an external gravitational torque on its nonspherical initial mass region. A uniform external acceleration moves its centre of mass without spinning it; the spatially varying tidal tensor exerts different forces on different parts. The tidal torque theory requires misalignment of the region's shape and the surrounding tidal field. A local irrotational vector field of velocity does not imply zero integrated angular momentum for a nonspherical region.
Put and use the physical peculiar velocity . The physical lever arm is , while a leading-order mass element is . Substituting the velocity formula into the supplied definition of angular momentum about the centre of mass gives
Terms from the perturbed mass measure are higher order. Subtracting the barycentre's velocity also changes nothing because at this order.
Apply the divergence theorem componentwise:
The antisymmetry of the Levi-Civita symbol kills the last term. Consequently, for the ordinary oriented comoving surface element ,
The original PDF prints a different coefficient, . That coefficient does not follow from its own mass measure and velocity equation and has the wrong dimensions for total angular momentum. The corrected coefficient above also gives the time dependence consistent with the paper's later tensor expression; this is a source typo, not a TeX transcription issue.
For a spherical centered on its barycentre, the outward normal is parallel to , so pointwise. Hence
For an equipotential surface, on , and
Therefore
The second conclusion holds for any boundary shape at this order, not just a sphere.
To extract the leading tidal torque, expand the initial peculiar gravitational potential about the barycentre using its Taylor series:
The constant has no force; has zero integrated torque because the first mass moment vanishes. With the mass second-moment tensor
we obtain
The second equality swaps the indices and uses the symmetry of both tensors. Define the initial acceleration tidal tensor by
Then the formula in the question has exactly the stated sign:
If one defines as the positive Hessian matrix of instead, the displayed contraction has a plus sign. Defining the convention is essential. Also, the paper's is a mass second-moment tensor; the mechanical inertia tensor is .
Only the anisotropic parts contribute: a multiple of the identity produces zero contraction with the Levi-Civita symbol. In axes where , for example,
Thus a spherical region or tensors sharing principal axes have zero leading torque; unequal principal moments together with off-diagonal tidal components create spin. The Taylor series truncation assumes that higher spatial derivatives of the tidal field are sufficiently small across the region.
In an Einstein-de Sitter universe, , , and . The initial and are time independent, so
This is early-time growth for fixed initial matter, before collapse invalidates the extrapolation. It does not predict indefinite linear spin growth for a virialized halo.
Two reasons for only approximate agreement with simulations are that nonlinear collapse and shell crossing change the trajectories and the tidal field, invalidating the first-order displacement and fixed leading tidal tensor; and that real halos undergo dark-matter halo mergers, anisotropic accretion, and exchange of material and angular momentum, so the halo identified at a later time need not be the same isolated collection of initial particles. These processes can change both the magnitude and the direction of the spin.
Let be the Stokes flow and let be any other admissible incompressible flow with the same no-slip boundary condition on the sphere and the same decay at infinity. Put
Then and on the sphere. The viscous dissipation satisfies
For the Stokes stress
incompressibility of gives
The divergence theorem, the homogeneous boundary data, decay at infinity, and give
Therefore
This proves the Minimum-dissipation theorem for Stokes flow.
The Bendixson-Dulac criterion says the following. Let be a simply connected domain, let be continuously differentiable, and suppose there is a continuously differentiable function such that
has one sign throughout and does not vanish identically on any open subset. Then has no periodic orbit contained in .
Indeed, if a periodic orbit existed, simple connectivity would put its interior inside . The vector field , and hence , is tangent to , so its outward flux is zero. The divergence theorem would give
contradicting the sign hypothesis.
The Poincaré-Bendixson theorem states that a nonempty compact omega-limit set of a continuously differentiable planar flow that contains no equilibrium point is a periodic orbit. More generally, when the omega-limit set contains only finitely many equilibria, it is either an equilibrium, a periodic orbit, or a union of equilibria and connecting trajectories.
Fix the first index and form the vector field with components . The divergence theorem gives
Substitution yields the tensor divergence theorem
The vector identity from Question 3 gives
Integrating over and applying the divergence theorem proves the Poynting theorem
Introduce a Lagrange multiplier for the normalization and vary
For a smooth variation with on , integration by parts gives
The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore yields the Euler-Lagrange equation
Multiplying by and integrating, while using
the divergence theorem and on the boundary give
The normalization is one, so the multiplier equals the stationary value:
In spherical symmetry, the velocity is radial and constant over each sphere. Hence
Apply the divergence theorem to the fluid shell between radii and . Since the flow is incompressible,
Thus is independent of and is a function of time alone. This is the flux law for spherically symmetric incompressible radial flow.