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Each coordinate of the oriented area vector is the Jacobian determinant of the matching cyclic projection
Statement
Let be open and let be , with parameters named and , . Then at every point of ,
for each of the three coordinate directions , where is the cyclic coordinate projection of Simple solid regions in a coordinate direction and their cyclic coordinate projection.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The open set and the map of the Statement.
For and in , (The cross product in ).
For a map of an open subset of into , its Jacobian determinant is , the determinant of its Jacobian matrix (The Jacobian determinant of a square-dimensional map is the determinant of its Jacobian matrix).
If every partial derivative of exists, the Jacobian matrix is (The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case).
For a commutative ring , and , , with columns indexed by and rows by (For , the determinant over a commutative ring by the Leibniz formula, and for a real matrix).
An inversion of is a pair with and , and (Inversions, inversion number, the sign , and even and odd permutations).
The cyclic coordinate projections are , and (Simple solid regions in a coordinate direction and their cyclic coordinate projection).
A map is of class when each component is of class ( Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms).
Proof
Each is a map of the two parameters into whose two components are components of , hence by [F7], so by [F2] and [F3] it has a Jacobian matrix with and of its th component. There are exactly two elements of : the identity, with no inversion and sign , contributing , and the transposition sending to and to , with the single inversion and sign , contributing . So [F4] and [F5] give .
By [F1] with and , whose coordinates are the partial derivatives named in [F3], the oriented area vector has coordinates
By [F6] the projection retains the coordinates then , so and step 1.1 gives , which is the first coordinate computed in step 1.2.
By [F6] the projection retains the coordinates then , in that cyclic order, so and step 1.1 gives , the second coordinate computed in step 1.2. Retaining then in increasing order instead would exchange the two rows and give the opposite sign, which is why the cyclic order is part of the projection.
By [F6] the projection retains the coordinates then , so and step 1.1 gives , the third coordinate computed in step 1.2.
Steps 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are the three asserted identities, valid at every point of ; in particular all three determinants vanish exactly where the oriented area vector does.
Remarks
- The identity holds where the patch is not regular. Nothing above uses . That matters because the lateral faces of a boundary presentation are exactly the patches whose th projected Jacobian determinant vanishes, and the identity is what turns that analytic condition into a geometric one.
Depends on
- The cross product in $\mathbb R^3$
- The Jacobian determinant of a square-dimensional $C^1$ map is the determinant of its Jacobian matrix
- Simple solid regions in a coordinate direction and their cyclic coordinate projection
- $C^k$ Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms
- The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case
- For $n\ge1$, the determinant over a commutative ring by the Leibniz formula, and $|\det A|$ for a real matrix
- Inversions, inversion number, the sign $\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)=(-1)^{\operatorname{inv}(\sigma)}$, and even and odd permutations
Used by
- Boundary presentations adapted to a simple solid region in a coordinate direction Definition
- A right circular cylinder is an elementary solid region, presented by two caps and four side quarters Example
- The closed ball is an elementary solid region, presented by the eight spherical octants Example
- The closed unit box, with its six faces, is an elementary solid region Example
- The flux of a single-component field through a graph face is a base integral of its trace Lemma
- The single-direction flux identity on a simple solid region Lemma
- At interior base points, the graph faces of an adapted presentation induce the outward unit normal Proposition
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Sources
- G. Strang and E. Herman, Calculus Volume 3 (OpenStax), section 6.8 (standard reference, not scraped)