The force potentials of a slice carry a vanishing weak gradient #
The last two summands p₇ + p₈ of the local pressure decomposition eq:pk
are the force potentials. When the force is distributionally divergence free
in space-time the two cancel on almost every slice, and the slice field of
display (3.5) needs no contribution from them: the zero function is their weak
gradient on the inner ball, with vanishing L^{6/5} norm.
The cancellation itself is the whole-space harmonic uniqueness statement of the force section; this file only converts it into the weak-gradient shape that display (3.5) consumes.
A function vanishing almost everywhere has the zero function as each of its weak partial derivatives on every set.
The zero function is locally integrable on every set.
Display (3.5) for the force potentials of a slice, in the case where they
cancel: the zero field is their weak gradient on the inner ball and its
L^{6/5} norm is zero.
The force slot of display (3.5) for a suitable weak solution whose force is distributionally divergence free in space-time: the slice force potentials cancel and their weak gradient on the inner ball is zero.