A phase function is a real smooth function
that is positively homogeneous of degree one in and has no critical point in all variables:
The symbol class consists of all such that, for every compact and multi-indices ,
For a cutoff equal to one near zero, define the oscillatory integral by
Repeated integration by parts makes the limit meaningful and independent of the cutoff.
The singular support is the complement of the largest open set on which the distribution is represented by a smooth function. Suppose does not belong to
On a sufficiently small neighborhood of , homogeneity and compactness of the unit sphere give a lower bound for . The differential operator
satisfies . Repeatedly transferring to the amplitude lowers its symbol order until the integral and all its -derivatives converge absolutely. Hence is smooth near , proving
For the stated distribution on , rotational symmetry lets us align the polar axis with and write . The angular integral is
Therefore, for ,
The original amplitude is not Lebesgue integrable in , so this computation illustrates how oscillation assigns a distribution to a divergent ordinary integral. The result is smooth away from the origin and has singular support . It is a constant multiple of the three-dimensional Yukawa potential, satisfying with the normalization used in the question.
Using multi-index notation, the Schwartz space is
Its topology is generated by the displayed seminorms. The tempered distribution is its continuous dual, with weak convergence defined by convergence of every pairing with a Schwartz function.
For the convention
differentiation under the integral and integration by parts give
These identities bound every Schwartz seminorm of by finitely many seminorms of , proving continuity. The Fourier inversion theorem gives the continuous inverse
so the Fourier transform is a continuous isomorphism of . By duality,
defines a continuous isomorphism of .
Define the perturbation vorticity component
Taking the curl of the linear momentum equation and using the buoyancy equation gives
Multiply the first equation by , the second by , and horizontally average. Periodicity makes the averaged derivatives vanish, while
by incompressibility and integration by parts. It follows that
Therefore the wave activity conservation law is
The equation can be written
For the squared L2 norm, periodic integration by parts and the reality of give
Thus the Schrodinger equation generates a unitary flow and is constant.
The volumetric flow rate is . Integration by parts, using finite and , gives
Because the stress magnitude is , change variables from to :
Therefore the required power is . The fundamental theorem of calculus gives the pipe form of the Weissenberg–Rabinowitsch equation:
Finally , so
A measured pressure-drop--flow-rate curve therefore recovers the wall viscosity without assuming a constitutive form.
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma states that the Fourier transform of an function is continuous and tends to zero at infinity.
For a Schwartz function , differentiation under the integral and integration by parts give
The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma bounds the right side by an seminorm of . Every Schwartz seminorm of is therefore bounded by finitely many Schwartz seminorms of . Hence the Fourier transform maps continuously into itself.
Put . The common Dirichlet boundary condition gives on . Expanding the energy functional,
Integration by parts and the field equation make the cross term zero:
Consequently
For , equality holds exactly when . For , equality holds exactly when , so is constant on the connected region; its zero boundary value then again forces . The minimizing property therefore proves uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem in both cases:
Choose a test function that equals one on the unit ball and vanishes outside the ball of radius two. Since
integration by parts gives
The first term on the right is supported where , where . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and Young inequality bound the second term by
After absorbing the first integral,
This estimate also proves completeness. Indeed, a Cauchy sequence in is Cauchy in locally, while its gradients and the functions converge in . The limits agree locally with a function , so and in the energy norm. Thus is a Hilbert space; it is the confining-potential energy space for .
Write
Differentiating at for a real test function gives
After integration by parts,
Rescaling the dependent and independent variables reduces this Euler-Lagrange equation to the ground-state equation for . The uniqueness of its positive radial solution and the equality cases in rearrangement show that all minimizers are
This is the classification of Weinstein-functional minimizers.
For real , differentiation under the integral gives
The ground-state equation and integration by parts reduce this to
In particular, along the amplitude direction the derivative is . Hence has negative energy for every sufficiently small , while
when is chosen small enough. The ground state has finite variance, so negative-energy blowup for the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation shows that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time.
Write , where is smooth at zero. Then
and a uniformly integrable expansion gives
By integration by parts,
Therefore
Choose the Sobolev space encoding the homogeneous essential boundary conditions, set
after the appropriate integration by parts, and define the energy functional
Its first variation is , so its stationary points are exactly the solutions of the weak formulation
If is bounded, symmetric, and coercive and , the Lax-Milgram theorem supplies a unique weak solution . Moreover, for every ,
unless . Thus is strictly convex, and is its unique global minimizer. This proves existence and uniqueness of the minimizer and of the weak solution simultaneously.
Let and use the clamped energy space , whose traces satisfy on . Two applications of integration by parts give
If equality holds, then . The maximum principle for harmonic functions and the zero Dirichlet boundary condition imply . The biharmonic operator is therefore positive definite. The same identity and conclusion hold for the simply supported conditions ; either standard interpretation of the paper's phrase “zero boundary conditions” gives the result.
For an ultrarelativistic particle, . Including the two spin states of an electron, counting wavevectors in a sphere gives the density of states
The grand canonical partition function of the ideal Fermi gas is therefore
Since the grand potential satisfies , integration by parts gives
Thus
This is the equation of state of an ideal ultrarelativistic gas.
Take a variation , where the differentiable function obeys
because both and its first derivative have fixed endpoint values. The first variation of the functional is
Applying integration by parts once to the second term and twice to the third gives
The endpoint conditions on and make every boundary term zero. Since the remaining integral vanishes for every admissible variation, the fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations yields the higher-order Euler-Lagrange equation
The magnetic field is . The magnetostatic Ampère-Maxwell equation is , so the curl of the curl identity gives
A gauge transformation does not change . We may therefore choose the Coulomb gauge by solving the Poisson equation . It follows component by component in a Cartesian coordinate system that
The free-space Green function of the Laplacian then gives
For a localized steady current density, conservation of electric charge gives ; integration by parts confirms directly that this integral has zero divergence and hence obeys the Coulomb gauge.
A linear operator on a real inner-product space is self-adjoint when
for all .
To prove the finite-dimensional spectral theorem, first note that the continuous quadratic function has a maximum on the unit sphere. The Lagrange multiplier equation at a maximizing vector gives , so has a real unit eigenvector. Its orthogonal complement is invariant because
Induction on the dimension supplies an orthonormal eigenbasis of that complement and hence of .
For ,
while symmetry and bilinearity are immediate, so the displayed formula defines an inner product on . Since
integration by parts gives
The boundary term vanishes for polynomials, proving that is self-adjoint.
On the monomial ,
Thus the matrix of in the monomial basis is triangular with diagonal
These are therefore its eigenvalues. For , corresponding eigenvectors are
for eigenvalues , respectively. They are the first Laguerre polynomials up to normalization, as described by the Laguerre differential operator on polynomials.
Let and , where the variations vanish on the boundary. The first variation is
Applying integration by parts to the four derivative terms and discarding the boundary contributions gives
The variations and are independent and arbitrary in the interior. The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations therefore gives the two Euler-Lagrange equations for two fields
The zero-boundary Sobolev space is
On it define
If this quadratic form vanishes, then . The Poincare inequality gives
so . It is therefore an inner product, and its norm is equivalent to the usual norm.
A function is a weak solution when
This follows from integration by parts and incorporates the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition through membership in .
For a compactly supported variation , differentiation of the area functional at gives the first variation
After integration by parts, this is the minimal surface equation for a graph
For one has . The equation is invariant under this scaling, so solves it on for every .