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Complete test Frechet space and uniform scaling order
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let , , and have finite real scaling degree . For every compact and every real , there are an integer and such that
where and are the fixed-support test-function space and seminorms of Fixed support test function frechet space. The estimate is uniform over the entire moving-scale family, not merely over each fixed test separately.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , , with , a compact , and . Assume the Axiom of Choice.
Scaling degree and local extension space: , and is the infimum of the real exponents for which on every fixed test.
Fixed support test function frechet space: has increasing derivative seminorms and the compatible metric .
Fixed support test function spaces are complete: this metric on is complete and induces the seminorm topology, without a choice axiom.
The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain: DC supplies an -indexed chain for any serial relation and prescribed initial point.
The Axiom of Choice: AC selects an element from every set-indexed family of nonempty sets.
AC implies DC implies countable choice: in ZF, AC implies DC.
Under Dependent Choice, a nonempty complete metric space is not a countable union of closed sets with empty interior: under DC, a nonempty complete metric space cannot be a countable union of closed sets with empty interior.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): AC selects a point from each sequence of nonempty sets.
The Axiom of Choice is assumed.
Proof
Given: The hypotheses in the statement.
Let with the metric of [F2]. It is nonempty because it contains , and it is complete by [F3]. AC supplies DC by [F4]–[F6], so the Baire theorem [F7] applies. The proof of [F7] also chooses centers for its recursively constructed balls; that countable family of nonempty balls is covered by AC from [F6] and [F8].
For fixed , set . The exponents for which for every fixed test form an upward-closed set: if the limit holds at , then for multiply by . Since its infimum is , some such is below , and consequently as .
On any compact scale interval with , the tests have support in one compact subset of and vary continuously in every derivative seminorm by the chain rule. Continuity of the distribution therefore makes continuous there. Together with step 1.2 this proves for every .
For each positive integer , let . Each is closed because every is a continuous linear functional on . Step 2.1 gives . By [F7], some has nonempty interior.
The topology of is generated by the increasing seminorms in [F2], so for some , , and , the set lies in . For every such , subtracting the two bounds for and gives for all . If , apply this to ; if , then and hence . Thus for every and every . Replacing by its definition proves the claimed uniform order estimate.
Depends on
The Axiom of Choice
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain
Fixed support test function frechet space
Scaling degree and local extension space
Fixed support test function spaces are complete
Under Dependent Choice, a nonempty complete metric space is not a countable union of closed sets with empty interior
AC implies DC implies countable choice
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Sources
- R. Brunetti and K. Fredenhagen, Microlocal Analysis and Interacting Quantum Field Theories: Renormalization on Physical Backgrounds, §5.1–§5.2
- Klaus Fredenhagen and Katarzyna Rejzner, “Perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory,” in Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theories, ed. Damien Calaque and Thomas Strobl, Springer (2015), Section 7
- K. J. Keller, Dimensional Regularization in Position Space and a Forest Formula for Regularized Epstein-Glaser Renormalization, dissertation, §I.1