How statement and proof provenance work
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Gibbs cancellation and entropy-production identity
Statement
Assume : every sequence of nonempty sets has a function with for every . Let be open and let have continuous total derivatives through order two. For , is the specific-volume coordinate, the specific-entropy coordinate, and the specific-energy value; set and , with each state partial derivative holding the other coordinate fixed.
Let be a nonempty open interval. Let be a nonempty bounded open set with boundary, meaning that near every boundary point it is the graph of a continuously differentiable function after a rigid coordinate change. Let be open with , and let , where means that all coordinate partial derivatives through total order exist and are continuous. For each , assume is a bijection from onto an open set with a inverse and . Define , , and ; this swept set is open. For a scalar or vector field on , set componentwise. For each nonempty bounded open subdomain with , set ; here a domain is locally on one side of a boundary graph.
Let be fields on with continuous first partial derivatives, with , , , , and . Let on denote the composition . Let be a continuously differentiable stress matrix field, let be a continuously differentiable matrix field, and suppose , where is the identity. For a scalar field , define ; define by , , and . Define for matrices, , and componentwise. Put , , and . The fields are vector-valued and is scalar-valued.
Assume there is a contact traction depending on a surface only through its point and outward unit normal , continuous in and uniformly bounded near each point. Assume its local force balance for every nonempty bounded open subdomain whose closure is compactly contained in . Surface integrals use Euclidean surface measure with chart area density . Suppose the unique Cauchy stress supplied by this contact balance satisfies and has the stated regularity; the contact result alone does not imply that regularity.
Assume the pointwise continuity equation and, for every such material subdomain and every , the integral balances where is the outward unit normal, is the ordinary vector cross product, and all fields are continuous up to the swept closures. The angular-momentum balance gives , and the local internal-energy equation supplied by these hypotheses is . Define the entropy residual . Then At any state with , a unique local branch satisfies ; the local Helmholtz function then satisfies and . The entropy identity does not assert and makes no empirical claim. In the physical SI interpretation, is in , in , in , in , in , in , in , in , in , and in .
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The state relation, motion, fields, countable-choice premise, contact balance, continuity equation, and integral balances in the Statement.
Specific fundamental relation and valid response charts: has continuous total derivatives through order two, , , and each state partial derivative holds the other state coordinate fixed.
Local Helmholtz chart and partial-Legendre derivative identities: when and at a state, a unique local chart exists and satisfies and .
The chain rule for total derivatives: : for differentiable maps on open Euclidean domains, the derivative of a composition is the composition of their derivatives.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): says every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function; it is the only choice strength assumed by the balance-equivalence input.
Momentum, angular, kinetic/internal and total balance algebra: its current Statement assumes , a time interval containing , a orientation-preserving diffeomorphic motion of a bounded material region, positive density and fields on neighborhoods of material subdomains, the continuity equation, linear- and angular-momentum integral balances, total-energy integral balance, a Cauchy stress with regularity, and the stated surface-measure convention. It concludes and . Its Statement denotes pointwise contact traction by ; this item uses for that vector to distinguish it from its matrix in . Those hypotheses and conventions are included in this Statement; the proof translates an arbitrary nonempty open time interval to one containing . The completed supplier provides this exact local-balance interface, including componentwise transport and time recentering; all displayed hypotheses remain binding.
All fields have the domains and continuous first-partial regularity stated in the Statement, with , , and the specified state relation.
The local Cauchy contact balance and material-subdomain continuity, linear/angular-momentum, and total-energy balances in the Statement are hypotheses, not conclusions from a physical postulate.
Assume exactly as stated; no full Axiom of Choice is assumed.
Proof
The stated mass equation expands to , since . Because , the chain rule gives , hence .
By [F1] and [F3], . Multiplying by and using step 1.1 gives .
Choose any and set , an open interval containing . For , define and define each shifted field by . The shifted motion is still and orientation-preserving, , and its material derivative is the original one at time . Time translation preserves the stated regularity, state relations, local contact balance, continuity equation, and each material-subdomain integral balance because under . Thus the actual hypotheses and interval convention of [L1] hold on , so [L1] gives and throughout the original interval. Since , symmetry of implies symmetry of ; therefore . Equating this expression for with step 2.1 and cancelling yields .
Divide step 3.1 by and expand the product rule componentwise: Substitution into the definition of cancels the heat-supply and divergence terms, giving . The Helmholtz-chart identities in the Statement are the conditional consequence [F2].