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Test function operations are continuous
Statement
In ZF the following linear maps are continuous for the LF test-function topologies: ; multiplication by a fixed ; translation from to ; and composition from to for a smooth diffeomorphism . Here smooth complex functions mean componentwise smooth real and imaginary parts. The translation and composition maps are topological isomorphisms. No joint continuity in varying or is asserted here.
Facts & Assumptions
A linear map out of is continuous exactly when its restrictions to all are continuous; fixed-support inclusions are continuous (Test function lf topology universal property).
Ordered partial derivatives and smoothness have the conventions of maps and multi-index derivative notation in Euclidean space.
The total chain rule holds for differentiable Euclidean maps (The chain rule for total derivatives: ).
Continuous higher mixed partials commute (Continuous mixed partials of order are invariant under permutations).
Proof
Given: the maps and domains of the statement, and a fixed compact source support .
Differentiation does not enlarge support, and F4 gives . Thus it is continuous on each fixed-support space. For products the one-coordinate product rule follows by subtracting from , inserting and dividing by ; continuity and the derivative limits give the two terms. Induction using F4 and Pascal's identity then gives [given, F2, F4, algebra] All derivatives of through order are bounded on compact , so , where . Support again stays in .
Translation takes support into and preserves each derivative supremum. Its inverse is . Composition takes support into , compact because it is the image of under the continuous inverse. The first derivative formula is , by F3. Inductively, each derivative of order is a finite sum of , , times products of derivatives of of orders at most : differentiating a term either differentiates its coefficient by the product rule of step 1.1 or raises by a coordinate using the first derivative formula. All coefficients are bounded on , so for a finite constant.
The bounds in steps 1.1 and 2.1 prove continuity from each source stage into the indicated target stage. Composing with its continuous inclusion and applying F1 proves all asserted LF continuities. Apply the composition argument to and the translation argument to for continuous inverses. Empty support gives the zero test and all bounds hold with zero left side; the zero multi-index gives the identity map. Only finitely many derivative bounds are used for each estimate, so no choice axiom is needed.
Depends on
Used by
- Distributional derivative Definition
- Multiplication of a distribution by a smooth function Definition
- Pullback of a distribution by a diffeomorphism Definition
- Distribution pairing with smooth parameter families Lemma
- Distributional differentiation is continuous and commutes Theorem
- Mollifier approximation in distributions Theorem
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Sources
- Semyon Dyatlov, Lecture notes for 18.155 (2022) (standard reference, not scraped)