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Smooth weak equivalence and moving jump residual
Statement
Assume Countable Choice: every sequence of nonempty sets admits a choice function. Let , let be open, and let be an integer. Let and be open, and let have graph contained in an open patch . Here and all space-time points in this lemma use time-first coordinates ; the coordinate permutation identifies these fields and tests with the spatial-first domains in the conservative weak-form definition. The minus and plus sides are and . Let be -valued and be -valued fields that are on their respective sides and admit one-sided extensions to every relatively compact part of . For a matrix flux , denotes its th spatial column and . For any one-sided trace , write . Put , and define the unit normal from minus to plus and its signed normal speed by Interpret as the ordinary locally integrable piecewise functions defined by their side values and traces; no singular measure supported on is added to . The interior weak identity for is the test identity of the conservative weak-form definition for every . It holds if and only if on both sides and on . The initial-data term in the weak initial form is independent; this interior jump condition neither asserts nor requires a strong trace at .
For scalar fields and vector fluxes with the same piecewise regularity, the interior weak inequality means for every nonnegative . It holds if and only if on both sides and on . These are local equivalences for prescribed piecewise-smooth fields, not existence or uniqueness theorems for nonlinear systems. The fields are abstract mathematical variables with no assigned physical units or constitutive model.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: Use the conservative weak identity and weak inequality as defined on the A page. The interface is strictly interior in time and space, its graph is , and the one-sided fields and traces have the stated regularity.
Locally integrable conservative weak and initial forms: for an interior test, the system identity is ; for a scalar inequality , its weak integral is .
Adopt the Countable Choice convention of Locally integrable conservative weak and initial forms for its restricted complete Euclidean Lebesgue spaces, almost-everywhere identification and signed integrals.
A linear map of sends Lebesgue measurable sets to Lebesgue measurable sets, with when is invertible and Lebesgue null when it is not: under Countable Choice an invertible linear map on carries every Lebesgue-measurable set to a measurable set of measure . For , and its inverse are coordinate permutations and .
The piecewise fields have no additional measure-valued source supported on ; all interface terms come from the jump in the ordinary one-sided traces.
Proof
By [A2] and [F2], and preserve the Lebesgue sigma-algebra and measure. Pullback by bijects nonnegative simple minorants and preserves their level-set measures, so the nonnegative integral is preserved by its defining supremum; applying positive and negative parts gives the same conclusion for the integrable tested scalar products in [F1]. Thus the time-first coordinates and the spatial-first weak definition give the same test integrals. For a test supported in , apply the product rule to the space-time current separately on and . Coordinatewise integration by parts in gives , where and . Compact support removes all outer-boundary terms; the remaining graph term is the difference of the two side conormal fluxes.
The unnormalised space-time conormal from minus to plus is . Its contraction with the jump current equals . Since , the graph coefficient vanishes exactly when , and has the same sign as the scalar entropy jump coefficient.
If the weak identity holds, choose tests supported wholly inside either side in step 1.1. Each continuous component of must vanish: a nonzero value would have a fixed strict sign on a small ball and contradict the identity for a nonnegative bump there. With these bulk terms zero, step 1.1 gives zero integral of against every trace of a test. Any compactly supported graph test extends to the patch as , where is a cutoff with and sufficiently small support. Such a uniform tube lies in because the graph over is compact in this open patch. A nonzero component of continuous would have a fixed sign on a small graph patch and contradict the identity. Hence and . Conversely, these equalities make the weak integral zero by step 1.1, and step 1.2 gives the stated jump condition.
For the scalar inequality, step 1.1 gives the weak integral as the negative of the bulk integrals of and the negative graph integral with coefficient . If both bulk residuals and are nonnegative, the weak integral is nonpositive for every nonnegative test. Conversely, a negative bulk residual at a point admits a nonnegative bump supported on that side and violates the weak inequality. If at a graph point, continuity gives a smaller graph patch where is bounded above by a negative constant. Choose a nonnegative test with fixed positive trace on that patch and support in a tube of width about the graph. The negative interface contribution to the weak integral is positive and independent of , while the bounded bulk terms have magnitude ; for small enough the weak integral is positive, a contradiction. Hence both the side inequalities and are necessary. Step 1.2 shows , so the stated jump sign is equivalent.