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Fixed-coefficient Cattaneo entropy and propagation
Statement
Let . Let be either or the flat torus , and let be an open interval containing . Consider real smooth fields and satisfying
The derivatives are ordinary derivatives of the Euclidean spatial coordinates; on the torus they are defined using periodic lifts. Write and let be the th standard basis vector of . Define
Then the displayed system is . The matrix is a positive symmetrizer, meaning is positive definite and is symmetric for each . For a unit direction , define the principal matrix ; its eigenvalues are (multiplicity two) and , where . For a fixed comparison speed , if and only if .
For every such solution and every , define the specified quadratic effective entropy density and flux by
Every smooth solution satisfies the exact identities
For every unit direction , its quadratic flux satisfies . The density is a positive quadratic Lyapunov density, not a physical energy density. The entropy identity asserts nonnegative production for this specified quadratic effective current; it does not assert positivity of for arbitrary data or a nonlinear material entropy law. These equations define the mathematical subsystem considered here; the sources give model context and do not establish a material-specific realization.
Use the exact global-solution, Fourier-coefficient, and weighted-norm conventions in [F1]. For initial data or , the unique global smooth evolution, its weighted Sobolev contraction, and finite propagation at speed follow conditionally from [F1] after checking the matrices below. On , for every integer , set
where is the heat-capacity coefficient and is the norm in [F1]. The periodic global solution supplied conditionally by [F1] obeys for all whenever . The constant uses only the temperature component of the supplied quadratic norm, so it does not compare heat-flux and temperature coordinates by a least eigenvalue. Although [F1] states a generic periodic supremum bound with unspecified constant , the explicit bound here is derived directly from Fourier reconstruction and the stated norm contraction.
If the symbols receive their conventional SI thermal interpretation, take in K, in J m K, in W m K, in s, in m, in W m, and the comparison speed in m s. Use the spatial coordinates in the inherited Fourier norms as their numerical values in metres, so the unit-frequency term in uses the reference length m. Then and have entropy-density units J m K, has entropy-flux units J m s K, and has units J K m rather than energy-density units. The norm has units and has units , so their product has temperature units. These unit labels do not assert a physical realization of the linear subsystem.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Positive constants , an open time interval containing , a smooth solution of the displayed system on , and the stated spatial setting. For the conditional global-evolution clause, take in the stated Schwartz or smooth-periodic data class.
Conditional evolution supplier Complete symmetrized constant-coefficient evolution: assume , an integer , , and constant real matrices with positive definite, each symmetric, and positive semidefinite. For , the supplier gives a unique global smooth solution for Schwartz data on and smooth periodic data on . Its negative-sign, -normalized Fourier transform is , and contracts for every and . On the torus, with , also contracts. Its finite propagation speed is : if , , and vanishes on , then vanishes on for , with the same result on using geodesic distance; if , every . The current carrier and proof are draft; this exact interface is used conditionally.
The Axiom of Countable Choice () defines as a choice function for each countable family of nonempty sets. This is the only choice strength used through [F1].
Schwartz space and its seminorms: consists of smooth complex-valued functions for which every seminorm is finite; real components are viewed as complex-valued functions with zero imaginary part, and this condition is imposed componentwise on -valued data.
Proof
Differentiate the first system equation in time and take the divergence of the second. Substituting gives , or .
Expanding the derivative of and the divergence of gives . The first equation makes both occurrences of zero, and the second gives . Thus the expression equals .
Differentiating and adding the flux divergence gives , where the first term vanishes by the energy equation and the second equality uses the Cattaneo equation. Since , is a positive definite quadratic form in .
Write , for the th standard basis vector of , , and . With , is symmetric, is positive definite, and is positive semidefinite. For each unit , the longitudinal block of has eigenvalues solving and the two transverse eigenvalues are zero. Since is positive definite, is invertible and the supplier's matrix is similar to , so it has the same eigenvalues and maximum absolute eigenvalue . Finally, , since .
Fix a periodic solution from [F1]. For , choose a coordinate with ; periodic integration by parts times and give . For each integer , the disjoint unit cubes centered at lattice points with lie in an annulus of bounded extra width and volume , so the shell has points. Hence for , and the Fourier series converges absolutely and uniformly. To identify its sum with , use the product Fejer kernel: in one dimension the normalized kernel is . It is nonnegative with integral one, and for torus distance with , the geometric-sum formula bounds it by . For the three-dimensional product, the mass outside the cube of coordinate distances less than is bounded by the sum of the three one-dimensional tail masses, hence tends to zero. Uniform continuity of then shows that convolution with these kernels converges uniformly to . The convolutions are finite Fourier sums with weights ; absolute convergence makes the same sums converge uniformly to . Thus this series equals .
The matrices in step 1.4 have four components, positive-definite , symmetric , and , so they satisfy [F1]'s hypotheses under [A1]. The data class in the Statement is exactly the Schwartz/periodic class in [F1], using the componentwise Schwartz definition in [F2]. The eigenvalue computation in step 1.4 gives . Applying [F1] therefore supplies the unique global smooth evolution for each stated data class, contraction of every stated weighted Sobolev norm for , and the shrinking-ball finite-propagation conclusion at speed on and on .
The same shell count in step 2.1 shows the lattice sum in converges: its shell contribution is , summable for . Set and . For each finite Fourier box, expanding and minimizing over gives , with the zero- case immediate; increasing boxes and taking monotone limits gives the same inequality for the series. The explicit diagonal matrix gives for every . Therefore , where the Fourier reconstruction is justified in step 2.1 and the last inequality is [F1] contraction. If the last quantity is less than , then for every and .
Since , squaring the positive quantities in gives the equivalent condition , and reversing the same steps proves the converse.