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Completeness of the periodic Sobolev spaces H^s(T^3_{2 pi}; R^N)
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be an integer and , write for the periodic Sobolev space with its norm and Fourier coefficients of The 2 pi-periodic three-torus, its normalized measure, test functions and the Sobolev spaces H^s, and put Then:
(a) every Cauchy sequence in converges in ; that is, is a real Banach space;
(b) more precisely, for every Cauchy sequence in there is with , and then , where is the constant of clause (b) of Periodic Fourier differentiation identity and equivalence of the derivative and Fourier-weight Sobolev norms; this is the unique limit of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, integers and , the torus with its normalized measure and the spaces of The 2 pi-periodic three-torus, its normalized measure, test functions and the Sobolev spaces H^s, and a sequence in that is Cauchy for .
Fourier differentiation and norm equivalence: there are constants , depending only on , with for every ; and conversely, if a class satisfies , then and the same two inequalities hold (Periodic Fourier differentiation identity and equivalence of the derivative and Fourier-weight Sobolev norms clause (b)).
is a real Hilbert space, hence complete; for and every one has , because and Cauchy--Schwarz applies ( with the integral pairing is a Hilbert space, The 2 pi-periodic three-torus, its normalized measure, test functions and the Sobolev spaces H^s, Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs).
is an orthonormal family of , so for finitely supported coefficient families (The trigonometric characters are orthonormal in of the torus, The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus, The 2 pi-periodic three-torus, its normalized measure, test functions and the Sobolev spaces H^s).
is complete. Under the elementary identification it is the space of Square-summable families on an arbitrary index set and the space , and is complete for every index set and every (A Hilbert space with a given orthonormal basis is of the index set).
A convergent sequence in a metric space has exactly one limit (A sequence in a metric space has at most one limit).
Proof
(Weighted coefficient Cauchy sequences.) is a vector space, so ; put and . By [L1], , so is a Cauchy sequence in .
(Coefficientwise limit.) By [L4] there is with ; convergence in gives coordinate convergence, so for every . Put ; then and .
(Conjugate symmetry of the limit coefficients.) Each is real-valued, so for every , by conjugating the defining integral and using ; passing to the limit of the convergent coordinate sequences gives for every .
(The limit class.) For let , a finite sum defining a class in : conjugating the finite sum gives by step 3.1, so it is real-valued, and its Fourier coefficients are for and otherwise. By [L3] and step 2.1, as , because and gives ; since is complete [L2], converges in to a class . For every , by [L2], so ; hence and [L1] gives .
(Convergence in .) By steps 2.1 and 4.1, , and [L1] gives .
(Conclusion.) Steps 4.1 and 5.1 produce, for every Cauchy sequence in , a limit with and ; this is (a) and the first two assertions of (b), and the limit is unique by [L6].
Remarks
- Role. This supplies the completeness of used in Compactness of H^r-bounded families in H^{r-1} and locally uniform H^{s-1} subsequences of Galerkin solutions (the Cauchy diagonal subsequence converges) and of used in A limit of Galerkin solutions is a Sobolev and then a classical solution of the symmetric hyperbolic system (the extracted limit of the time derivatives), and more generally the Banach-space property of the periodic Sobolev scale.
- What is used. Only the Fourier characterisation of the norm and of the space, completeness of , completeness of the weighted coefficient space and the elementary conjugate-symmetry consequence of real-valuedness. No differentiability of the limit class is assumed; membership in follows from the finite weighted norm through clause (b) of Periodic Fourier differentiation identity and equivalence of the derivative and Fourier-weight Sobolev norms.
Depends on
The 2 pi-periodic three-torus, its normalized measure, test functions and the Sobolev spaces H^s
Periodic Fourier differentiation identity and equivalence of the derivative and Fourier-weight Sobolev norms
The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus
with the integral pairing is a Hilbert space
The trigonometric characters are orthonormal in of the torus
A Hilbert space with a given orthonormal basis is of the index set
Square-summable families on an arbitrary index set and the space
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs
A sequence in a metric space has at most one limit
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
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Sources
- M. E. Taylor, Fourier Analysis, Distributions, and Constant-Coefficient Linear PDE (UNC lecture notes, 2018), Section 1 (Fourier series on the torus T^n): characters, Fourier coefficients, the Parseval identity, the coefficient isometry onto the square-summable sequences and the completeness of the weighted coefficient spaces
- E. Wiedemann (ed. J. Skipper), Lecture Notes: Navier-Stokes Equations (Universitat Ulm, WS 2018/19), Section 2.1 (Fourier characterisation of the Sobolev spaces H^s(T^3) as weighted square-summable coefficient spaces, hence Hilbert spaces for every real s, and the continuous embedding H^s(T^3) into L-infinity for s>3/2)
- J. K. Hunter, Notes on Partial Differential Equations (UC Davis lecture notes), Chapter 3 (Sobolev Spaces), Sections 3.5 and 3.10 (Sobolev spaces and compactness results): completeness of Sobolev spaces by passage of the weak identities to the limit