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Coercivity of the principal Dirichlet form
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice, inherited through the Poincaré supplier named below, together with Countable Choice. Let be open and bounded in one direction, and let be the principal part of a uniformly elliptic form with constants and (Uniformly elliptic divergence-form operators and their sesquilinear forms), restricted to . Then is a bounded sesquilinear form on and where is the Poincar'e constant of The Poincare inequality for zero-boundary Sobolev closures on domains bounded in one direction for . Hence is coercive on with constant , and in the model case (so ).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice and Countable Choice; an open bounded in one direction; uniformly elliptic coefficients with constants and (Uniformly elliptic divergence-form operators and their sesquilinear forms); and the principal form on .
Uniform ellipticity: for almost every and every , , and a.e. (Uniformly elliptic divergence-form operators and their sesquilinear forms).
Absolute convergence and boundedness: the principal term is absolutely convergent for and on ; in particular is a bounded sesquilinear form (The elliptic form is well defined and bounded on ).
Poincar'e at : for every , where and is the constant of the cited theorem at ; hence (The Poincare inequality for zero-boundary Sobolev closures on domains bounded in one direction, Integer-order Sobolev spaces and their norms, Zero-boundary Sobolev space as a norm closure).
Nonnegative measurable functions have nonnegative integrals, and the integral of a nonnegative function is monotone under pointwise comparison; the real part of an integral of a complex-valued integrable function is the integral of its real part (Monotone convergence for the integral, Integral over a measurable subset, Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus).
Coercivity of a sesquilinear form means for all and some (Bounded, coercive and symmetric sesquilinear forms).
Proof
Pointwise bound: substituting in the ellipticity condition of [F1] and taking real parts gives, for almost every ,
Poincar'e bound: by [F3], for every , that is .
Integrating the pointwise bound: the function is measurable and its negative part is bounded by a.e., so ; the difference from is nonnegative and measurable, so its integral is nonnegative and .
Coercivity and the model case: combining steps 2.1 and 1.2 gives for every , so is coercive with constant ; it is bounded by [F2]. In the model case , , the pointwise identity gives .
Depends on
The Axiom of Choice
Bounded, coercive and symmetric sesquilinear forms
Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Integral over a measurable subset
Integer-order Sobolev spaces and their norms
Uniformly elliptic divergence-form operators and their sesquilinear forms
Zero-boundary Sobolev space as a norm closure
The elliptic form is well defined and bounded on
Holder's inequality for integrals, including the endpoint cases
Monotone convergence for the integral
The Poincare inequality for zero-boundary Sobolev closures on domains bounded in one direction
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, Notes on Partial Differential Equations (UC Davis, revised 18 June 2014, complete 242-page two-quarter notes)
- Richard S. Laugesen, Linear Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (University of Illinois, 2020, complete 158-page graduate notes)
- Gerald Teschl, Partial Differential Equations: From Classical to Modern (archived 2025 author manuscript)