Poincaré inequality on arbitrary bounded domains (chain step 5) #
BoxSlice.lean discharges the per-direction slice bound when the domain IS the open
coordinate box. This file removes that restriction: any Ω contained in a box inherits
the slice bound, because a test function of Ω is a test function of the box
(IsTestFn.mono) and the box integrals restrict to Ω (the integrands vanish off
tsupport φ ⊆ Ω). Averaging (poincare_testfn) and density (poincare_H01) are already
domain-general, so the Poincaré inequality follows on every bounded domain
(poincare_H01_of_bounded), with the closed-form constant L²/(2(n+1)) from any
bounding box of side L. This is the p = q = 2 Friedrichs (Poincaré) inequality
for H₀¹; the limit passage from test functions to H₀¹(Ω) by density is the
density step poincare_H01, which is architectural here because H₀¹ is defined
as the closure of the test-function graphs.
Per-direction Poincaré bound for a subset of a box. A test function of any
Ω inside the open box obeys the box slice bound with the integrals taken over Ω.
Poincaré inequality on H₀¹(Ω) for Ω inside a box with sides at most L:
‖U₀‖² ≤ L²/(2(n+1)) · ∑ᵢ ‖Uᵢ‖².
The test-function instance, in the slice-constant form the coercivity layer
consumes. Derived FROM poincare_H01_of_subset_euclBox (test graphs lie in H₀¹).
Every bounded set sits inside an open coordinate box with sides bounded by a
single L (derived from a bounding radius about the origin).
Poincaré inequality on H₀¹ of an arbitrary bounded domain (the
Friedrichs inequality, p = q = 2): some constant C ≥ 0 controls the function part
by the gradient part, uniformly over H₀¹(Ω).
Guo, Partial Differential Equations (JHU AS.110.631-632), Theorem III.4.6 states the
W_0^{1,p} form, ‖u‖_{L^q} ≤ C ‖Du‖_{L^p} for q ∈ [1, p*], and derives it from the
Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequality. This declaration is its p = q = 2 case, proved
on a different route and consequently in every dimension: Guo's hypothesis p ∈ [1, n)
reads n > 2 at p = 2, excluding n = 1 and n = 2, because the GNS route needs a
finite Sobolev conjugate. The route here goes through the one-dimensional inequality and
Fubini, which asks nothing of the dimension, with the constant L²/(2(n+1))
in place of the sharp one.
Coercivity of the bilinear form of the Laplacian on a bounded domain, with no abstract
Poincaré
hypothesis. poincare_H01_of_bounded names the constant, so the only input is boundedness of
Ω. This is the form of coercivity the direct method uses, where the domain is a ball and no
box structure is at hand.