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The planar divergence theorem on a rectangle, checked against a direct boundary computation
Example
Let and let . Then the flux form of Green's theorem gives and the boundary integral can be checked directly edge by edge. On the same field, the circulation form gives
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The unit square with its positive boundary chain and the field .
For a positively oriented finite elementary Green region and a planar field on an open neighbourhood of it, the flux form of Green's theorem is (The planar divergence theorem: the flux form of Green's theorem).
The circulation form of Green's theorem identifies with the area integral of the third coordinate of the curl of the lifted field (Green's theorem is the curl statement for a planar field lifted to ).
The unit square is an elementary Green region (Type I, Type II, and elementary regions for Green's theorem).
Its positive boundary traverses the lower edge left to right, the right edge upward, the upper edge right to left, and the left edge downward (Positive orientation of elementary-region boundaries).
Vector line integrals are computed from (Scalar line integrals with respect to arc length and vector-field line integrals).
The planar divergence is (Divergence and curl of a vector field).
Jordan Fubini computes a multiple integral by iterated section integrals (Fubini over a bounded Jordan set when all but a content-zero family of sections are integrable).
If , is differentiable on , and is integrable there, then (The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then ).
Verification
The square is an elementary Green region by [F1], [F2] fixes the four directed edges of its positive boundary chain, and the polynomial field is on the open neighbourhood of .
Here and , so [F4], [L3], and [L4] give .
On the bottom edge , , one has , , and , so the flux-form integrand vanishes and this edge contributes .
On the right edge , , one has , , and , so the contribution is .
On the top edge , , one has , , and , so the contribution is by [L4].
On the left edge , , one has , , and , so the contribution is .
For the circulation form, has edge contributions , , , and , so it equals ; the lifted field has curl third coordinate , and [L3], [L4], and [L2] give as well.
Steps 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 give , agreeing with [L1].
On each directed edge, rotating the unit tangent clockwise gives the outward unit normal of the square, by the positive-orientation convention of [F2].
Remarks
- The two zero edge contributions in steps 2.2 and 2.5 are computed, not inferred from symmetry. They vanish for two different reasons: on the bottom edge and on the left edge.
Depends on
- The planar divergence theorem: the flux form of Green's theorem
- Green's theorem is the curl statement for a planar field lifted to $\mathbb R^3$
- Type I, Type II, and elementary regions for Green's theorem
- Positive orientation of elementary-region boundaries
- Scalar line integrals with respect to arc length and vector-field line integrals
- Divergence and curl of a $C^1$ vector field
- Fubini over a bounded Jordan set when all but a content-zero family of sections are integrable
- The second fundamental theorem: if $G$ is differentiable on $[a,b]$ with $G' = f$ and $f$ is integrable, then $\int_a^b f = G(b)-G(a)$
- The Euclidean inner product $\langle x,y\rangle = \sum_{k<n} x_k y_k$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$
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Sources
- J. Feldman, A. Rechnitzer and E. Yeager, CLP-4 Vector Calculus, Example 4.3.4 (standard reference, not scraped)