One-dimensional harmonic oscillator form domain Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-11-05
This Hilbert space has norm . Completeness follows from completeness of H1 space and closedness of the multiplication operator . Smooth cutoffs followed by convolution with a mollifier show that smooth compactly supported functions are dense. The space is the natural energy domain of the dimensionless quantum harmonic oscillator, whereas the operator domain additionally requires and to lie in L2 space.
Assume the bounded set is measurable, as needed to define its indicator in . Put and choose a smooth cutoff function of compact support equal to one near . Weak convergence in the H1 space gives a uniform bound, by the Uniform boundedness principle, and therefore is uniformly bounded in with fixed compact support.
Here is a direct Fourier proof of the local compactness in the Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem. For each frequency , , since integrating against the fixed compactly supported function is a continuous linear functional on . Also uniformly, by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality on the fixed support. The dominated convergence theorem gives, for every fixed ,
The uniform derivative bound and the unitary Plancherel theorem control high frequencies:
First let , then . This proves , and hence .
Let . The Sobolev embedding theorem bounds uniformly. For , choose with . Interpolation of Lp norms gives . For , Holder inequality on the fixed finite-measure support gives the same conclusion from convergence. Thus
The same integral estimate covers if those spaces are interpreted with their usual quasi-norm. No conclusion at the critical exponent is asserted.
For every compactly supported smooth test function , integration by parts in the definition of the weak derivative gives
Both and belong to , so the assumed weak limits imply
This is exactly the distributional characterization of . Since are all in , the defining condition of the H1 space is satisfied. Thus
For complex functions the same argument uses conjugated test functions in the pairing. No prior identification of an weak limit is needed.
Work with real-valued functions. The screened sine-Gordon energy is well defined: , and is integrable by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. It is coercive, because
A minimizing sequence is bounded in the Hilbert space . Weak sequential compactness of bounded sequences in a reflexive Banach space supplies a weakly convergent subsequence. The squared H1 space norm is weakly lower semicontinuous, the source pairing is weakly continuous, and the nonlinear term is covered by local Sobolev compactness gives lower semicontinuity of a nonnegative integral. The direct method in the calculus of variations therefore gives a minimizer .
Taking its first variation in any gives
Thus the Euler-Lagrange equation is
as a weak solution, equivalently in distributions when tested against smooth compactly supported functions. The derivative of the nonlinear term is justified by and the second-order remainder bound .
Now , so the supplied elliptic regularity estimate puts in . Applying the Sobolev inequality to and each first weak derivative gives . Morrey's inequality and uniformly continuous integrable functions vanish at infinity prove that its continuous representative tends to zero.
The final printed supremum estimate is false in general. The maximum bound for a monotone reaction term involves , which is odd and strictly increasing: , and its zeros are isolated. If , a positive maximum of satisfies ; apply the same argument to . The valid general estimate is
The bound by is valid if , but can be smaller than for larger positive .
For an explicit failure of the source-size bound for the screened sine-Gordon equation, take , , and . These are smooth functions in the required spaces. With ,
Hence . Moreover has , so the energy is convex and this critical point is a minimizer. The example therefore satisfies even the minimizing and hypotheses of the printed claim.
A contraction semigroup on a Banach space consists of bounded linear operators with , , , and as for each . Its infinitesimal generator of a semigroup is
For density, Yosida averaging of a semigroup gives . Taking the difference quotient of this Bochner integral shows that and . Strong continuity gives , so is dense.
For closedness, the semigroup restricted to its generator domain satisfies
If and , pass to the limit in this identity. After dividing by , strong continuity gives . Hence and . This proves generator of a strongly continuous semigroup is closed and densely defined.
The contraction form of the Hille-Yosida theorem states that a linear operator generates a contraction semigroup if and only if it is densely defined and closed, every real lies in its resolvent set, and
Here the bound implies the others by taking powers of the same bounded resolvent.
The H1 space is with weak derivative and squared norm . The displayed weighted space is the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator form domain, with inner product
If is Cauchy in , it converges in to , and converges in L2 space to some . On each bounded interval, multiplication by is bounded, so there. Thus and convergence holds in , proving completeness and the Hilbert space property. Equivalently this is closedness of the multiplication operator by .
For the Sobolev characterization by bounded difference quotients, if then
The last assertion uses continuity of translation of a function in L2 space. Conversely, if and the quotients are uniformly bounded for , take a weakly convergent subsequence as . For every test function ,
The weak limit is therefore the weak derivative . This proves the characterization.
Sobolev inner product Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
For real-valued functions, the inner product
on the H1 space induces its usual Sobolev norm. For complex-valued functions, use under the convention that the inner product is linear in its first argument. Omitting conjugation in the complex setting would fail positivity, for example on a purely imaginary constant function.
A real reaction-diffusion weak formulation with unit diffusion and unit reaction has this exact bilinear form. Its conforming Galerkin method is therefore an orthogonal projection and gives a best approximation with constant one in the first-order Sobolev norm.
Sobolev space with a partial Dirichlet condition Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be a bounded Lipschitz domain and a measurable portion of its boundary. The space
is a closed vector subspace of the H1 space. The Sobolev trace operator maps continuously into , and restriction to is bounded, so is the kernel of a continuous linear map. Boundary regularity is what makes this ordinary trace formulation available.
No positive-measure assumption is needed for closedness. If is also connected and has positive surface measure, the Poincare inequality with a partial Dirichlet boundary controls the full Sobolev norm by the gradient norm on .