Whole-space finite-energy comparison #
The reference velocity has one compact spatial support throughout the closed time interval. The competing velocity has only smoothness and a uniform finite-energy bound. No growth, decay, support or derivative bound is assumed for the competing pressure or velocity. The pressure flux estimate is derived from the actual equation by the imported pressure recovery and commutator theorems.
Closing the whole-space comparison estimate #
This module isolates the final PDE energy calculation. Its explicit pressure flux hypothesis is discharged by the pressure reconstruction modules in the whole-space uniqueness theorem; it is not a competitor hypothesis.
The compactly weighted difference-energy identity on R³ #
The cutoff alone has compact support. Both velocities and both pressures may be arbitrary smooth fields on the time slab. Every integral below is an ordinary Lebesgue volume integral on Euclidean three-space.
The Laplacian in a compactly weighted energy identity #
All integrals are ordinary volume integrals on Euclidean three-space. The weight is smooth and compactly supported; the vector field is smooth but is not required to have compact support or globally integrable derivatives.
The one-coordinate weighted integration-by-parts identity.
Compactly weighted Laplacian energy identity for an arbitrary smooth spatial vector field. No global integrability assumption on the vector field or its derivatives is needed.
The same identity in the velocity-field notation used by Navier--Stokes.
A continuous factor needs no decay when multiplied by the compact cutoff.
Energy is continuous on the closed slab, including its initial time.
Joint smoothness and the cutoff justify differentiation under the integral.
The weighted energy integrand remains integrable after time differentiation.
The localized balance follows from equality of the actual Navier--Stokes residuals. No integrability or support condition is imposed on either velocity.
The balance with its time derivative justified on the interior of a closed slab. The only support hypothesis is on the scalar cutoff.
A uniform rate bound from the localized energy estimate #
The Sobolev estimate for the cutoff velocity contains fixed multiplicative
constants. They are absorbed into a single coefficient before applying the
uniform Young estimate. The resulting error decays as 1 / R, and no sign
condition on the energy coefficient or energy value is used.
Scalar absorption for the whole-space comparison estimate #
The constants in these estimates are uniform in the cutoff radius and in the nonnegative quantity that will represent a weighted gradient norm. All fractional powers have real exponents.
The pressure and transport cutoff remainders are controlled by one shifted
subquadratic power. The estimate retains the full factor 1 / R.
Scalar Young absorption of all cutoff remainders. The same nonnegative constant works for every nonnegative gradient norm and every radius at least one.
Non-pressure terms in the localized difference energy balance #
The velocity difference need not have compact support or globally integrable
derivatives. The compact cutoff supplies local integrability; the estimates
use its weighted L⁶ norm and the unweighted L² norm of the difference.
The cutoff makes the coupling integral finite.
The indefinite coupling is controlled by the gradient of the reference velocity and the actual compactly weighted energy.
Derivative of the energy weight.
One power of the cutoff is harmless because it lies in [0,1].
The reference velocity vanishes in the cutoff derivative, leaving only the difference velocity in the transport flux.
A bounded Laplacian can be paired with any square-integrable field.
A fixed derivative bound for the unscaled energy weight.
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Apply scaling to the fixed eighth-power weight before estimating its derivatives. The second derivative has the same inverse-square scaling.
The fixed constant in the inverse-square Laplacian estimate.
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The Laplacian term in the energy identity is of order R⁻² M².
Finiteness is explicit and only requires L² membership of the velocity.
Scalar closure of the whole-space comparison estimate #
The localized energy may have derivatives only in the interior of the time interval. The shared scalar Gronwall estimates therefore use continuity on the closed interval and derivatives on its interior. In particular, no energy inequality at a time endpoint is assumed.
The weighted perturbed Gronwall estimate with a nonpositive initial value.
Only interior derivatives of E are needed.
Perturbed Gronwall, retaining the actual time in the bound.
Perturbed Gronwall with one bound valid throughout the closed interval.
A forcing error of order 1 / R gives a uniform energy error of the same
order. The numerator depends only on C, K, and the time interval.
Apply the scalar estimate to a family of localized energies. All radii share the same constant in the numerator.
Removing the spatial energy cutoff #
At a fixed time, square integrability gives an integrable dominating function. This module removes the cutoff only after that hypothesis has been supplied.
A bound on actual weighted integrals, uniform over large radii, forces a continuous square-integrable field to vanish everywhere.
The final scalar and cutoff step of uniqueness. The differential estimate is an explicit input here; deriving it from the PDE and pressure is separate.
Pressure envelope, given by `(B ^ (1 / 2 : ℝ) + 1) * (A / R + 1 / R ^ 2) + R ^ (-7 / 4 : ℝ)
- B ^ (3 / 4 : ℝ)`.
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Once the pressure flux has been estimated from the equations, compact localized integration, Sobolev, Young and Gronwall imply equality everywhere. All constants precede the radius and time quantifiers.
Constants supplied by the compactly supported comparison solution #
These bounds are consequences of joint smoothness and one fixed compact spatial support. They impose no condition on the competing solution.
The shared compact support contains the support of every spatial slice.
The candidate's first spatial derivative is bounded on all of space and uniformly over the closed comparison interval.
Compact support and continuity place every candidate slice in L³.
The ordinary cube-norm integral varies continuously with time.
The finite L³ norm has its ordinary integral formula.
One finite L³ bound works at every time in the comparison interval.
The cutoff weight is locally constant throughout its strict plateau.
Sufficiently large cutoffs have exactly zero derivative in the direction of the compactly supported candidate, at every spatial point.
On a compact time interval, smoothness and one fixed compact spatial support already imply the target's uniform finite-energy condition.
Whole-space comparison on a positive closed time interval. Finite energy of the reference velocity is a consequence of its compact spatial support.
The exact compact candidate agrees with every smooth finite-energy competitor on each closed interval before time one.
A global smooth solution with uniformly finite kinetic energy must agree with the candidate at every time strictly before one.