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Reflection in $y=0$ preserves the prescribed translational velocity and axial angular velocity. A force transforms as a polar vector, whereas a torque transforms as an axial vector; consequently $F_y=G_x=G_z=0$. Reflection in $x=0$ reverses both imposed motions but preserves the normal force component. The linearity of Stokes flow then gives $F_z=0$. Thus only $F_x$ and $G_y$ can be nonzero.

There is a sign inconsistency in the printed question. In right-handed coordinates, $\mathbf{\Omega }=\Omega {\mathbf{e}}_y$ gives a rotational velocity $-\Omega a{\mathbf{e}}_x$ at the sphere's lowest point. The printed shear and force formulas instead use the opposite rotational sense. Below, let $\omega$ be the right-handed component along $+{\mathbf{e}}_y$; the paper's displayed formulas are recovered by setting $\omega =-\Omega$.

In the translating frame, the parabolic gap and leading boundary velocities areThe no-slip boundary condition and lubrication theory giveThe gap is stationary in this frame, so ${\nabla }_{\parallel }\cdot \mathbf{q}=0$. The Reynolds lubrication equation is thereforeSince $h_x=x/a$ and ${\nabla }_{\parallel }^{2}h=2/a$,Differentiating the velocity profile gives the leading shear stressesThe first expression becomes the printed formula after $\omega =-\Omega$.

For the logarithmic lubrication resistance of a sphere near a wall, write $\ell =\log (1/ϵ)$. The logarithmic region is $a\sqrt{ϵ}\ll r\ll a$, where $h\sim r^2/(2a)$. ConsequentlyThese follow from $\int r/hdr=a\ell +O(a)$ and $\int r^3/h^{2}dr=2a^2\ell +O(a^2)$, with a fixed small outer cutoff. The general logarithmic radial numerator is $r^{2n-1}$ over $h^n$; the numerator in the printed integration hint appears to have a typographical error.

The force exerted on the fluid through the upper gap boundary includes pressure acting on its slope:The pressure cancels the $x^2/h^2$ term, givingPressure exerts no torque about the centre of a sphere because its traction is radial. To logarithmic order, the shear has lever arm $-a{\mathbf{e}}_z$, soThe other components vanish by parity: $G_x$ involves an integral of the $xy$ term, and $G_z$ has an integrand odd in $y$. The combined hydrodynamic resistance matrix isIts equal off-diagonal coefficients are required by the Lorentz reciprocal theorem for Stokes flow. It is a positive-definite matrix, as required by viscous dissipation.

In the rotational convention of the printed force formula, set $\Omega =-\omega$ and measure the scalar couple along $-{\mathbf{e}}_y$, so $G=-G_y$. ThenFor sedimentation under the buoyancy-adjusted weight $F$, a uniform sphere is torque-free. Thus $\omega a=U/4$, and the force balance givesThe rotational scalar in the paper's displayed-force convention is $\Omega =-U/(4a)$. The sphere rolls in the right-handed $+{\mathbf{e}}_y$ sense but still slips: its lowest point has laboratory velocity $U-a\omega =3U/4$. The signs and coefficients of the right-handed resistance agree with the rigid-wall terms of Bertin et al., equations (4.4)–(4.5), after reversing the forces and torques there from fluid-on-sphere to sphere-on-fluid.