Margin-safe parabolic cylinders and their closures #
This file records the elementary geometry behind the "doubling with a margin" step: a parabolic cylinder that meets the carrier region and whose radius is at most one third of the margin separating the carrier from the outer ball has its doubled-radius cylinder, and hence the closure of that cylinder, contained in the outer region. This is what lets a slice estimate proved at a single cell radius be applied at twice that radius, at the price of a third of the gap between the inner and outer regions.
The results are stated in the two settings used later: a one-sided cylinder based at the origin of the unit parabolic cylinder, and a parabolic metric ball about an arbitrary centre.
Two Euclidean balls that meet are closer than the sum of their radii: if some
point lies within radius r of x and within radius a of c, then the centres
themselves are less than a + r apart. This is the quantitative form of the
separation between a cell that meets the carrier and the outer ball.
A parabolic cylinder that meets the carrier at a radius at most a third of the
margin between the carrier and the outer ball has its DOUBLED cylinder inside the
outer region. Concretely, if x is within R₁ + r of the origin, 3 * r ≤ R₀ - R₁
and R₀ ≤ 1, then every point of parabolicCylinder x t (2 * r) lies in the unit
cylinder parabolicCylinder 0 0 1, provided the base time t lies below zero and
the doubled time-depth stays at or above the unit depth. The factor three is the
margin that absorbs the doubling of the radius.
The closure form of the margin-safe doubling: if the closure of the unit
parabolic cylinder lies in the space-time carrier Ω × I, then so does the closure
of every doubled cylinder whose radius is at most a third of the margin and whose
base point lies within R₁ + r of the origin, with the same time-side bounds. The
closure is taken because the slice estimate is applied on closed one-sided
cylinders.
The margin-safe doubling for a parabolic metric ball: a closed doubled cylinder
whose radius is at most a third of R, and whose base point is within R/2 + r of
the centre and whose base time lies in the one-sided window around the centre time,
is contained in the parabolic ball of radius 2 * R. This is the version applied
when the outer region is a parabolic ball rather than the unit cylinder.
A margin-safe cell that meets the carrier ball has its own ball, and hence a fortiori the region where its slice estimate is read, inside the outer ball.
The three margin premises of the doubling step for a parabolic metric ball, read off a cell that meets the inner ball: the spatial centres are close, and the cell's top time lies in the one-sided window around the centre time.