Regularity and locality of the concrete Navier--Stokes residual #
All operators below are the ordinary derivatives in ProblemStatement.
The main regularity theorem is on an open spacetime domain; it does not
differentiate an unspecified extension through a time boundary.
Parameter-dependent spatial differentiation lowers regularity by one. The output is the actual Fréchet derivative of each spatial slice.
Parameter-dependent time differentiation lowers regularity by one.
Jointly smooth velocity and pressure have a jointly smooth actual residual.
The candidate's relative smoothness hypotheses suffice at all interior times.
Exact spatial periods #
A spatial unit period passes to the actual derivative of the spatial slice. No differentiability hypothesis is needed for this translation rule.
Time differentiation preserves spatial periods when the period identity holds on an open neighborhood of the time being differentiated.
The concrete residual has the same unit spatial periods as its inputs. Openness is needed only to pass the period identity through time differentiation.
Locality, without differentiability assumptions #
Local agreement of the two inputs implies agreement of their concrete residual at the point, including the iterated spatial derivative.
A local zero extension of velocity and pressure has zero residual.