Second-order transport identities for translated mollifier kernels #
This module records the mixed-second-order analogues of the first-order
mollifier transport identities of CKN.Foundation.Measure.SliceDistributionTransport.
In the elliptic-regularity analysis of Caffarelli--Kohn--Nirenberg (1982), the
pairing of a distribution with the countable family of translated mollifier
bumps is integrated by parts; the first-order identities handle the
divergence-form (first-derivative) slots, while the identities here handle the
second-derivative slots of eq:leibniz-lap and eq:commute.
Concretely, we differentiate under the reflected convolution: the integral of a
smooth ψ against the mixed second derivative ∂_i ∂_j of the reflected kernel
mollifier ε (x - ·) equals the mollification of the corresponding mixed second
derivative of ψ. The translation identities spatialDeriv_sub_const and
mixedSecond_sub_const reduce the reflected derivative to the translate of the
derivative, and the kernel vanishes outside its support ball.
Spatial derivative of a translate: ∂_i (z ↦ g (z - y)) (x) = ∂_i g (x - y).
This is the chain rule for the translation z ↦ z - y, used to move the
derivative of a reflected mollifier kernel back onto the kernel.
Mixed second derivative of a translate:
∂_i ∂_j (z ↦ g (z - y)) (x) = ∂_i ∂_j g (x - y). This iterates the
translation chain rule spatialDeriv_sub_const on the smooth function g.
Integration by parts against a translated derivative: for smooth ψ and
smooth compactly supported g, the pairing of ψ with the reflected ith
partial derivative of g equals the pairing of the ith partial derivative of
ψ with the reflected g. This is the weak partial-derivative identity for
ψ tested against the smooth compactly supported translate w ↦ g (x - w).
The mixed second derivative of the radius-ε mollifier is continuous; it is
a second partial derivative of a smooth compactly supported kernel.
The mixed second derivative of the mollifier vanishes outside the support
ball: for ε < ‖z‖, ∂_i ∂_j mollifier ε z = 0. This is because the
topological support of a coordinate derivative is contained in that of the
kernel, which is the closed ball of radius ε.
Integration by parts against the reflected mixed second derivative of the
mollifier: for smooth ψ, the pairing of ψ with ∂_i ∂_j mollifier ε (x - ·)
equals the mollification of the mixed second derivative ∂_i ∂_j ψ. This is the
second-order analogue of the first-order identity
integral_mul_fderiv_mollifier_sub, obtained by applying
integral_mul_spatialDeriv_sub twice and using symmetry of the mixed partials.