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Outgoing source Helmholtz field: fundamental solution, Fraunhofer and Fresnel error terms
Statement
Assume Countable Choice (), with the exact meaning of The Axiom of Countable Choice (). For define off the origin, a locally integrable complex function. Then
distributionally: for every , , , and (Locally integrable functions as regular distributions, Distributional derivative, Dirac delta and its derivatives); thus the displayed identity means . For and a finite complex measure supported in the closed ball , the field is smooth outside the support, solves there and is outgoing: for , ,
uniformly in direction, and uniformly. For a planar aperture with observation , , , and , the Fresnel approximation replaces by and by with phase error and relative amplitude error , hence absolute field error . Aperture data are an explicitly specified scalar source, not asserted to be the unknown exact Maxwell boundary traces, and no uniqueness or existence for arbitrary obstacle boundary data is claimed.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, , a radius , the kernel (with arbitrary value for the integral representation), a finite complex measure on the Borel sets of supported in , meaning , and, for , the field . No value on the source support is needed.
Radial Laplacian and derivative rules. For a function of one has for (The Laplacian of a function and of a vector field, The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ); the modulus is the real fundamental kernel, which is locally integrable (Local integrability of the Laplace fundamental kernel).
Second Green identity. On a bounded domain, with outward normal (Second Green identity); apply the real identity to real and imaginary components and combine complex-bilinearly.
General measure integrals and total variation. The integral is that of Integration against a signed or complex measure, and the class L^1(nu) = L^1(|nu|): , and its value is the limit of the simple integrals of approximants. The total variation is (The total variation |nu|(E) from countable measurable partitions). For a Borel function with -almost everywhere, , so and (Integrals against signed or complex measures are bounded by total variation). Kernels continuous and bounded on the compact source support extended by zero off that closed support are Borel, and their values off that support do not affect the integral. The integral triangle bound is The modulus of an integral is bounded by the integral of the modulus.
Real calculus and norm conventions. The real Newton–Leibniz theorem Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on , differentiability on , and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative applies to continuous functions on a closed interval with the stated integrable interior derivative. Positive real powers have derivatives and by applying the first-derivative rule twice (Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers), supplying the square-root and reciprocal-square-root derivatives below. The Euclidean inner product and norm are those of The Euclidean inner product on .
Complex exponential. is the convergent power-series exponential of The complex exponential by its power series. Its addition law is and it extends the real exponential (, and the complex exponential extends the real exponential). For real , and (, , and ). It is entire with (The complex exponential is entire and its complex derivative is itself); equivalently, along a real parameter, the sine/cosine derivatives and chain rule give and all higher derivatives.
Phase norm and Lipschitz tools. , (The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine) and (Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine). The complex modulus is the Euclidean norm of its two real coordinates, is multiplicative and satisfies the triangle inequality (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive). Clause 2 of If is differentiable with integrable then ; and a bounded derivative makes Lipschitz says that a continuous curve , differentiable inside with , is -Lipschitz.
Distribution conventions. A locally integrable complex kernel defines (Locally integrable functions as regular distributions), distributional derivatives pair by (Distributional derivative), and (Dirac delta and its derivatives). Pairings are complex-bilinear, without conjugating the test.
Proof
For real , set , and on . By [F6] this curve is continuous on the closed interval and differentiable inside, with and . The Lipschitz clause with , gives . Euler's formula [F5] and the modulus convention [F6] identify this with ; for the inequality is equality. For real , the addition law and unit modulus [F5] give . Thus the phase bound holds for either sign and for every real phase pair, without differentiating a modulus.
For write ; then and the chain and algebra rules [F1] give for functions of one variable, and with a direct computation gives , so off the origin; since is locally integrable, defines a regular distribution.
For fixed with and put , ; then is with , , and because ; hence two applications of the FTC [F4] give and, since and , also .
For choose with and , and apply the second Green identity [F2] on to , : since there, ; the outer sphere term vanishes because vanishes there, and on the inner sphere, where the outward normal of is , one has and , so the boundary summand contributes and the derivative-test term is ; hence , that is , so distributionally.
If , the integral and every asserted field bound vanish. Otherwise the field is smooth outside and solves there: on a compact observation set with the kernel and all its parameter derivatives are continuous and uniformly bounded on , so the difference-quotient limits pass through the measure integral by the total-variation bound [F3], giving all derivatives by differentiation under the integral sign, and the two spatial derivatives may be moved inside to apply step 1.2 at .
For the kernel difference from the Fraunhofer product is bounded by , using from step 1.1 with the phase error of step 1.3 and ; integrating this difference against with the total-variation bound [F3] gives the displayed Fraunhofer formula with the stated error, uniformly in the direction .
For the outgoing relation compute with , and and by step 1.3, so ; integrating against [F3] and multiplying by gives uniformly, the term being bounded because .
For the planar aperture write , and , so ; on the declared range the derivatives in [F4] give and on ; integrating the second-derivative bound twice and the first-derivative bound once by the FTC gives and ; hence the phase error is , the relative amplitude error is , and with from step 1.1 the kernel error is at most ; integrating against with [F3] gives the stated absolute field error, while the aperture datum remains an explicitly specified scalar source and no uniqueness or existence statement for obstacle boundary data is made; Countable Choice is inherited from the cited Green, surface and measure interfaces and no stronger principle is used.
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Locally integrable functions as regular distributions
Distributional derivative
Dirac delta and its derivatives
Second Green identity
The Laplacian of a function and of a vector field
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
The chain rule for total derivatives:
Local integrability of the Laplace fundamental kernel
Integrals against signed or complex measures are bounded by total variation
Integration against a signed or complex measure, and the class L^1(nu) = L^1(|nu|)
The total variation |nu|(E) from countable measurable partitions
The modulus of an integral is bounded by the integral of the modulus
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on , differentiability on , and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative
The Euclidean inner product on
The complex exponential by its power series
, and the complex exponential extends the real exponential
, , and
The complex exponential is entire and its complex derivative is itself
If is differentiable with integrable then ; and a bounded derivative makes Lipschitz
The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine
Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
Continuity and derivatives of positive-base real powers