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Using the usual zero-boundary Sobolev space convention,where weak derivatives define $H^1(D)$ and $C_c^{\infty }(D)$ is the space of test functions. In the Gaussian free field convention, the same notation often denotes the Dirichlet energy space, the completion in the gradient norm alone. On bounded domains the Poincaré inequality makes the two definitions equivalent; on unbounded domains one must distinguish them. The following gradient-pairing argument applies in either setting whenever the energy completion is realized as weak functions.

Identify $H_{\mathrm{supp}}=H_0^1(U)$ with a vector subspace of $H_0^1(D)$ by zero extension of H01. Approximating by test functions in $U$ shows that this is an isometric embedding in the inhomogeneous Sobolev norm and also in the Dirichlet inner product norm. In particular, arbitrary irregularity of $\partial U$ causes no additional boundary term.

DefineThese are weakly harmonic Sobolev functions. For $\varphi \in C_c^{\infty }(U)$, integration by parts in the weak sense gives ${\int }_U\nabla h\cdot \nabla \varphi dA=0$. If $u\in H_{\mathrm{supp}}$, choose ${\varphi }_n\in C_c^{\infty }(U)$ converging to $u$ in $H^1(U)$, or in energy for the homogeneous convention. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesHence the orthogonality of supported and harmonic Dirichlet functions isBoth are linear vector subspaces. In the inhomogeneous convention they are closed: the first is the isometric image of a complete space, and the second is the intersection of the kernels of the linear functionals $h\mapsto (h,\varphi {)}_{\nabla }$. No spanning assertion is needed. The PDF contains this orthogonality statement; the TeX has badly corrupted it into an assertion about openness.

For a classical solution of $\Delta u=f$ on a half-ball with zero data on its flat face, a tangential Caccioppoli inequality controls every second partial derivative having at least one tangential index. The equation recovers the remaining second normal derivative. The resulting Sobolev norm estimate has a dimension-only constant for the fixed radii one and two. Nonzero data are handled by homogenization of Dirichlet boundary data, adding the $W^{2,2}$ norm of the supplied boundary extension. No condition is imposed on the curved face because the smooth cutoff function vanishes there.

A skew-coupled elliptic system has zeroth-order couplings with opposite signs. For the displayed example with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, its weak formulation on $V=H_0^1(\Omega )\times H_0^1(\Omega )$ has the bilinear formThe coupling cancels for equal arguments, so $b((p,q),(p,q))=\Vert \nabla p{\Vert }_0^2+\Vert \nabla q{\Vert }_0^2$. On a domain satisfying the Poincaré inequality, this is a coercive bilinear form. With the product first-order Sobolev norm, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality applied to $(\nabla p,\nabla q,-q,p)$ and $(\nabla v,\nabla z,v,z)$ gives $|b(P,T)|\le \Vert P{\Vert }_V\Vert T{\Vert }_V$. The Lax-Milgram theorem therefore applies even though the bilinear form is not symmetric. Eliminating $w=-\Delta u$ recovers ${\Delta }^{2}u+u=f$, involving the biharmonic operator.

Smooth compatible data sufficiently small in high weighted Sobolev norms relative to a constant map produce global smooth wave maps in three and four spatial dimensions. In four dimensions, derivative decay $(1+t{)}^{-3/2}$ is time-integrable and closes commuted wave energy estimates. In three dimensions the weaker $(1+t{)}^{-1}$ decay requires the cancellation of null forms for wave equations, exploited by the vector field method for wave equations. These classical localized-data statements do not assert global regularity from small supercritical energy alone.

For $1\le p<\infty$, an integer $k\ge 0$, and a normalized nonnegative mollifier $\rho \in C_c^{\infty }({\mathbb{R}}^n)$, put ${\rho }_{\epsilon }(x)={\epsilon }^{-n}\rho (x/\epsilon )$. If $u\in W^{k,p}({\mathbb{R}}^n)$, its mollification is smooth and converges to $u$ in the Sobolev norm. The definition of a weak derivative and Fubini's theorem give ${\partial }^{\alpha }({\rho }_{\epsilon }\ast u)={\rho }_{\epsilon }\ast {\partial }^{\alpha }u$ for every multi-index with $|\alpha |\le k$. The approximate identity theorem in the Lp space $L^p$ applied to these finitely many weak derivatives proves the claim. On a domain with boundary this direct convolution argument applies only away from the boundary unless an extension is first supplied.

The displayed inner product on the first-order Sobolev space induces its usual Sobolev norm. A continuous reaction-diffusion weak formulation with unit diffusion and unit reaction has this exact bilinear form, so its conforming Galerkin method gives a best approximation with constant one in the first-order Sobolev norm.

For $a<b$ and $0\le \theta \le 1$, the displayed estimate holds on Euclidean space and a torus with the Fourier definition of the Sobolev norm. In the squared norm, write the weighted squared Fourier coefficient as the product of its weight-$a$ value to the power $1-\theta$ and its weight-$b$ value to the power $\theta$. Holder inequality then proves the estimate. On a compact manifold, a finite coordinate cover and a partition of unity give the same estimate up to a constant. Young inequality implies the useful absorption form $\Vert u{\Vert }_{H^{s+1}}\le \epsilon \Vert u{\Vert }_{H^{s+2}}+C_{s,\epsilon }\Vert u{\Vert }_2$ for nonnegative $s$.

For an integer $k\ge 0$ and sufficiently regular bounded functions, $\Vert fg{\Vert }_{H^k}\le C_k(\Vert f{\Vert }_{\infty }\Vert g{\Vert }_{H^k}+\Vert g{\Vert }_{\infty }\Vert f{\Vert }_{H^k})$. The Leibniz rule and derivative interpolation give the estimate. In a differentiated semilinear wave equation, this separates a controlled low-order coefficient from an arbitrarily high Sobolev norm, allowing propagation of smoothness after a fixed base norm has been controlled.