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Fundamental solution for the positive operator minus Laplacian
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and . With in the published chart/polar convention, set for and for , . Extend it as a locally integrable function at the pole. The one-dimensional analogue is ; the subsequent Green theory does not silently include it.
Definition
The kernel candidate for the operator is Its value at may be assigned arbitrarily; the resulting measurable function is interpreted through its locally integrable class. Here is the chart surface measure, which agrees with the polar measure . In dimension one put . This fixes the positive-minus-Laplacian sign convention; the later distributional theorem proves for .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Assume , let , and use the published chart/polar convention for surface measure and Lebesgue polar coordinates. The one-dimensional profile is considered separately.
Countable Choice, written , says every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function. (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
The chart surface measure agrees with the polar measure and satisfies . (Agreement with the existing polar sphere measure).
Every Euclidean ball of positive radius has positive finite Lebesgue measure under Countable Choice. (Euclidean balls have positive finite Lebesgue measure).
The unit ball volume is , hence in dimension two. (The closed form for the volume of the unit -ball).
For nonnegative Borel , polar integration gives . (Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma).
A distribution is a fundamental solution of a constant-coefficient operator when . (Fundamental solution of a constant-coefficient operator).
A locally integrable function defines the regular functional . (Regular distribution from a locally integrable function).
Distributional second derivatives act by the signed test derivative formula. (Distributional derivative).
The Dirac distribution satisfies . (Dirac delta and its derivatives).
The Laplacian is the divergence of the gradient, with . (The Laplacian of a function and of a vector field).
Under Countable Choice, every singleton in is Lebesgue null. (A box with a degenerate side is Lebesgue null, and so is every coordinate hyperplane in ).
Proof
By [F1] and [F2], is finite and strictly positive. In dimension two, [F3] gives , so and the logarithmic coefficient in the Statement is exactly . The operator sign is using the definition [F9]. This uses the Countable Choice assumption [A1] through the measure convention.
In dimension one, , so is locally integrable. For a test , [F7] gives . The slopes of are to the left of zero and to the right; integrating by parts separately on the two half-lines, the compact-support endpoint terms vanish and , so the negative integral equals by [F8]. Thus and [F5] identifies it as the one-dimensional fundamental-solution analogue for .
Let . For , [F4] gives . For , using from step 1.1, it gives . The polar integration use [F4] also assumes [A1].
The formulas are continuous away from zero, so they are integrable on every compact set avoiding the pole. Step 2.1 proves integrability in a neighborhood of the pole; hence . By [F10], changing its value at the single point zero does not change its almost-everywhere class, and [F6] defines the corresponding regular functional.
The zero-dimensional case is outside the stated kernel and has no unit-sphere convention used here. The polar endpoint is included as an improper integral in step 2.1; away from zero the kernel is smooth. Countable Choice is used only through [F1], [F2], and [F4]; no full Axiom of Choice is used.
Source notes
Hunter §2.6 equations (2.12)–(2.13), printed p. 33; Teschl §5.3 equations (5.22)–(5.26), printed pp. 117–118. The one-dimensional formula is checked directly by its slope jump; for the distributional Dirac identity is proved later rather than assumed in this definition.
Depends on
- Fundamental solution of a constant-coefficient operator
- The polar surface set function on the unit sphere
- Agreement with the existing polar sphere measure
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma
- Euclidean balls have positive finite Lebesgue measure
- The closed form for the volume of the unit $n$-ball
- Regular distribution from a locally integrable function
- Distributional derivative
- Dirac delta and its derivatives
- The Laplacian of a $C^2$ function and of a $C^2$ vector field
- A box with a degenerate side is Lebesgue null, and so is every coordinate hyperplane in $\mathbb{R}^n$
Used by
- An isolated boundary point obstructs pointwise-zero Green data Counterexample
- The fundamental Hessian is not absolutely locally integrable Counterexample
- Dirichlet Green function for minus Laplacian Definition
- Newtonian potential of compactly supported data Definition
- The canonical Green kernel of a plane domain Definition
- Flux normalization on every centered sphere Example
- Newton shell theorem from harmonic mean values Example
- Newtonian potential of radial compact data Example
- One-dimensional Dirichlet Green kernel on an interval Example
- The two-dimensional logarithmic kernel has unit normalized flux Example
- A bounded-domain Dirichlet Green function is unique and positive Lemma
- Bounded compact data give an everywhere finite Newtonian potential Lemma
- Local integrability of the Laplace fundamental kernel Lemma
- The Laplace fundamental solution is harmonic off its pole Lemma
- Canonical Green kernels are unique, symmetric and domain monotone Theorem
- Far-field asymptotics of compact-source Newtonian potentials Theorem
- Green and harmonic-measure representation with the 2π sign Theorem
- Green functions exist on all bounded plane domains Theorem
- Green representation for classical Poisson data Theorem
- Hölder data give a classical Newtonian solution Theorem
- Newtonian potentials solve the distributional Poisson equation Theorem
- Symmetry of the Dirichlet Green function Theorem
- The negative Laplacian of the fundamental solution is the unit Dirac distribution Theorem
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, Notes on Partial Differential Equations (2014) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Gerald Teschl, Partial Differential Equations: From Classical to Modern (2025 archived author manuscript) (standard reference, not scraped)