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The chain rule for total derivatives:
Statement
Let be totally differentiable at and let be totally differentiable at . Then is totally differentiable at and
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The total first-order expansions of at and at .
In the total-derivative definition, the normalized remainder tends to zero as tends to zero (The total (Fréchet) derivative as the linear first-order approximation with remainder).
Total differentiability gives a local increment bound and therefore continuity (Total differentiability gives a local increment bound and therefore continuity).
Proof
Write and , with both normalized remainders tending to zero.
By [L2], ; boundedness of and the two remainder limits show both and are , including the case .
Substitution into the two expansions leaves , and the composite of linear maps is linear.
Depends on
- The total (Fréchet) derivative $Df(a)$ as the linear first-order approximation with $o(\|h\|_2)$ remainder
- Total differentiability gives a local $O(\|h\|_2)$ increment bound and therefore continuity
- Every Euclidean linear map has a unique matrix and satisfies $\|Lh\|_2\le K\|h\|_2$ for some $K\ge0$
- A linear map $L:\mathbb{R}^m\to\mathbb{R}^n$ in Euclidean coordinates
Used by
- An everywhere-positive-definite Hessian implies strict convexity Corollary
- Cartesian and polar forms of the Cauchy–Riemann equations agree away from the origin Corollary
- A figure-eight curve is an immersed image but not an embedded submanifold Counterexample
- Analytic transport data Example
- The inverse-square field is divergence free, and its flux through the sphere bounding the translated unit ball vanishes Example
- The image of every immersion need not be an embedded submanifold False statement
- A C¹ map sends a compact set of content zero to a set of content zero Lemma
- A nondegenerate stationary envelope solves the Hamilton–Jacobi equation Lemma
- A quasilinear solution lifts to augmented characteristics Lemma
- A transport equation restricts to a linear ODE along each characteristic Lemma
- A vector line integral along an image arc is the parameter line integral of the pulled-back field Lemma
- Chart and partition independence of surface measure Lemma
- Choice-free smooth inverse function theorem in Euclidean space Lemma
- Compactly supported scaled Euclidean bumps Lemma
- Compatibility of a characteristic strip with Cauchy data Lemma
- Explicit compactly supported smooth cutoffs Lemma
- In source rank coordinates, the remaining components depend only on the rank coordinates Lemma
- Newton maps are uniform contractions near a point with invertible derivative Lemma
- Repeated derivatives along a line expand by the multinomial formula Lemma
- The Burgers slope obeys a Riccati law along characteristics Lemma
- The Charpit flow preserves the PDE constraint Lemma
- The curl flux integrand of a C² patch is a two-dimensional curl of the pulled-back field Lemma
- The inverse-projected characteristic graph satisfies the quasilinear PDE Lemma
- The oriented area vector transforms by the parameter Jacobian determinant Lemma
- The principal symbol depends only on the first derivative of a smooth coordinate change Lemma
- At interior base points, the graph faces of an adapted presentation induce the outward unit normal Proposition
- Chain rule for smooth half-space maps Proposition
- Compatibility of smooth atlases is an equivalence relation, and smooth Euclidean maps compose Proposition
- Identity maps and composites of smooth maps are smooth Proposition
- The tangent plane is invariant under regular reparametrization Proposition
- A C² function is convex exactly when its Hessian is positive semidefinite Theorem
- A constrained local extremum annihilates every velocity of a differentiable parametrization Theorem
- A differentiable map on a connected open Euclidean set has zero derivative exactly when it is constant Theorem
- A divergence-free C¹ field on a star-shaped open subset of ℝ³ has a vector potential Theorem
- A holomorphic function with zero derivative on a domain is constant Theorem
- Change of variables for an injective C¹ map on a compact Jordan set Theorem
- Cᵏ Euclidean maps are closed under componentwise algebra and composition Theorem
- Differentiable convex functions are characterized by the gradient inequality Theorem
- Homogeneous linear transport is solved by the inverse characteristic flow Theorem
- Local linear transport has a unique solution from noncharacteristic Cauchy data Theorem
…and 11 more results.
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Sources
- J. Lebl, Basic Analysis I, §8.3 (standard reference, not scraped)