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The trace commutes with smooth cutoffs and is chart local
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let , , be a bounded domain, , and let be the trace operator of The trace operator on a bounded domain.
(i) If , then in for every , and .
(ii) If is a bounded domain and is relatively open in , then a.e. for every , where is the trace operator relative to ; in particular the trace is local and compatible with restrictions to subdomains.
(iii) If a boundary chart flattens a neighbourhood of a boundary point, then for supported in a compact ambient patch inside that chart the transported trace equals of the zero-extended flattened function after reflecting and the corresponding boundary norms agree up to the chart Jacobian.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice; a bounded domain ; ; the trace operator of The trace operator on a bounded domain; and the dense class of restrictions to of functions.
is the unique bounded linear operator with for every , and ; on each boundary chart it is the transported flat half-space trace. (The trace operator on a bounded domain)
If a class in has a continuous representative on , its trace is the classical restriction of that representative. (The trace agrees with classical restriction for continuous Sobolev functions)
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Restriction to an open subset is a contraction , and multiplication by the restriction of an ambient smooth function with bounded value and first derivatives is bounded on with constant depending only on finitely many sup norms of derivatives of . (Bounded restriction and cutoff localisation in Sobolev spaces, Weak Leibniz rule with a smooth factor)
Assume the Axiom of Choice. is dense in ; and for a flattening chart of a bounded domain, , composition with is bounded from of a compact patch to of the corresponding flattened patch. (Ambient smooth restrictions are dense on bounded C^k domains, C^k boundary flattening preserves local W^{k,p})
The half-space trace is bounded from of the half-space to of the flat boundary and agrees with classical restriction on the dense compactly supported smooth class. (The half-space trace estimate and the half-space trace operator)
The surface integral on is defined chartwise with graph density and is independent of the charts and partition; on the overlap of two subdomains sharing a boundary piece the two surface measures agree. (Surface integration on compact C1 hypersurfaces)
Proof
Multiplicativity (i). Let and let with in by [F4]. Each extends to a smooth compactly supported function, so has classical restriction by [F2]; hence . By [F3] in , so in by [F1]; and because is bounded and multiplication by a bounded continuous function is continuous on (Holder). The identity follows, and the bound follows from [F1] and [F3].
Locality (ii). Let be a bounded domain with relatively open in , and let be the trace operator relative to , which is defined by [F1] precisely when is a bounded domain of the type covered there. Define , , a bounded linear map by [F1] and [F3]. On the dense class of smooth restrictions, is the classical restriction of to , which equals by [F2]. Two bounded linear maps that agree on the dense subspace are equal, so the identity holds on all of ; the two surface measures agree on the common piece by [F6].
Chart transport (iii). Fix a compact ambient patch and a smooth ambient cutoff equal to one near . For supported in , choose tending to by [F4]. Then in by [F3]. Flatten, reflect, and extend each chart-supported function by zero within the half-space. These operations are bounded by [F4] (apply the local composition formula on interior patches and exhaust the chart with the uniform compact ambient derivative bounds); zero extension across the artificial chart edge is licensed by the cutoff support margin. The flattened functions are continuous, compactly supported and Sobolev, so their flat traces equal their classical restrictions by [F5], although they need only be , since the chart is . Those restrictions equal the transported by [F2]. Pass to the limit using both trace bounds. The surface formula [F6] gives the claimed norm comparison since its density is bounded above and below on the compact patch.
Conclusion. Step 1.1 proves (i) with the stated bound; step 1.2 proves (ii) by uniqueness of the bounded extension from the dense smooth class; step 1.3 proves (iii), including the equivalence of the transported boundary norms up to the chart Jacobian.
Source notes
Gagliardo's local-representation discussion (printed pp. 286-288) computes the trace chartwise and requires agreement on overlaps; Teschl's localisation argument (Lemma 9.21, printed p. 210) uses a partition of unity and checks compatibility of the traces on the flattened pieces; Schikorra's proofs of Theorems III.3.21-III.3.22 (printed pp. 76-77) are the second treatment. The lemma above isolates the three consequences used later: multiplicativity under smooth cutoffs, locality under restriction to subdomains, and the chart transport of the trace.
Depends on
- The $L^p$ trace operator on a bounded $C^1$ domain
- Bounded restriction and cutoff localisation in Sobolev spaces
- The trace agrees with classical restriction for continuous Sobolev functions
- The half-space trace estimate and the half-space trace operator
- C^k boundary flattening preserves local W^{k,p}
- Ambient smooth restrictions are dense on bounded C^k domains
- Bounded C^k domains and boundary charts
- Surface integration on compact C1 hypersurfaces
- The Axiom of Choice
- Weak Leibniz rule with a smooth factor
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Sources
- Emilio Gagliardo, Caratterizzazioni delle tracce sulla frontiera relative ad alcune classi di funzioni in $n$ variabili, Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 27 (1957), 284-305 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Gerald Teschl, Partial Differential Equations: From Classical to Modern (archived 2025 author manuscript) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Armin Schikorra, Partial Differential Equations (University of Pittsburgh, version 4 December 2019) (standard reference, not scraped)