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The transport theorem for a family of diffeomorphisms:
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()), as used by the change-of-variables theorem below. Let be a nonempty open interval (Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length), let be a material region (Material regions, densities and their mass) and let be a motion of on in the sense of Continuum motions, spatial velocity, material acceleration and swept regions, with associated spatial velocity
and Jacobian (Continuum motions, spatial velocity, material acceleration and swept regions, Euclidean spatial calculus: gradient, divergence and material derivative).
Let be an open interval with , put
and let be of class ( Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms) on an open set containing . Then
is defined and differentiable on (Integral over a measurable subset, Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals), and for every
with the divergence and spatial derivative of Euclidean spatial calculus: gradient, divergence and material derivative and the Lebesgue integral of Lebesgue measurable sets, the family , and the restricted set function . The same formula holds componentwise for replaced by a vector field.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ; an open interval ; a motion of on with spatial velocity ; an open interval with ; a function on an open neighbourhood of the swept region .
For each the map is a diffeomorphism onto an open set, and and are on their open domains (Continuum motions, spatial velocity, material acceleration and swept regions).
Change of variables: if is a diffeomorphism between open subsets of and , then ; under the present hypotheses on (A C^1 diffeomorphism satisfies the change-of-variables formula for L^1 functions, The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
The determinant-derivative lemma: for the matrix curve with invertible values, (The derivative of the determinant along an invertible C¹ matrix curve: ).
Differentiation under the integral sign: if has integrable for every , differentiable for almost every , measurable, and for an integrable , then is differentiable with derivative (Differentiation under the integral sign).
The chain rule and the product rule: compositions are with the usual total-derivative rule; finite sums and products of differentiable functions satisfy the algebra rules (The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms).
On each compact cylinder used in the local proof, continuous functions are bounded and attain their maxima (Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line, A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value, Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space).
For a map on an open spacetime domain, each coordinate mixed partial equals . At a point, the rectangular increment over a small positive - and -interval, divided by the rectangle area, is the average of either ordered mixed partial by two applications of the one-variable fundamental theorem; continuity makes both averages converge to their point values (The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then , A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion).
A bounded measurable subset of has finite Lebesgue measure: it is contained in a bounded box, whose measure is its finite volume, and Lebesgue measure is monotone as a measure (A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included, Assuming countable choice, is a sigma-algebra containing every elementary set and is a complete measure extending elementary volume).
Proof
Fix . Choose a bounded open interval with and . Its swept set is compact and lies in , since it is contained in . The continuous map therefore maps into . Compactness gives an open neighbourhood of in such that for , : finitely many product neighbourhoods inside the inverse image of cover the compact cylinder, or equivalently its positive distance from the closed complement supplies a uniform spatial margin. Define By [F1] and [F5], is , and is bounded on the compact cylinder by [F6]. The argument below is applied on this local interval; compactness of the whole is not required.
For , [F2] applied to the diffeomorphism and the integrable function restricted to gives These integrals are finite because and are bounded measurable sets of finite measure by [F8], while the integrands are continuous and bounded on their compact closures.
Differentiate in time at . By [F5], , where the second form uses . For , [F7] gives . Differentiating with respect to and applying the chain rule yields . By [F3], . Hence
The product rule for a scalar field and a vector field , read off componentwise from the definitions of gradient and divergence, gives Therefore () reads .
Apply [F4] to on over the interval with the integrable dominating constant (legitimate because has finite Lebesgue measure and the supremum is finite by step 1.1 and [F6]): the function is differentiable on with
Change variables back with [F2], applied to restricted to , which is integrable by continuity on the compact closure and the diffeomorphism : Combining with step 4.1 gives the stated formula at ; since was arbitrary, it holds on all of .
Remarks
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The material motion of Continuum motions, spatial velocity, material acceleration and swept regions is the special case , ; the theorem is stated for a general family so that the control-volume identities can reuse it with an auxiliary boundary velocity. Positivity of on is used to rewrite as on the reference region; without that positivity the pullback would instead use .
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The proof is local at each time in : a compact inner time cylinder supplies the integrable majorant. The entire interval need not be bounded. No claim is made about a time interval whose closure meets the boundary of or about times at which the diffeomorphism family degenerates.
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The proof uses the change-of-variables theorem, which assumes ; the axiom is declared here and in the consuming items. No other choice principle is used.
Depends on
Continuum motions, spatial velocity, material acceleration and swept regions
Euclidean spatial calculus: gradient, divergence and material derivative
Material regions, densities and their mass
The derivative of the determinant along an invertible C¹ matrix curve:
A C^1 diffeomorphism satisfies the change-of-variables formula for L^1 functions
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Differentiation under the integral sign
Integral over a measurable subset
Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals
The Lebesgue integral is linear on
Lebesgue measurable sets, the family , and the restricted set function
Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms
The chain rule for total derivatives:
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value
Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line
Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
The second fundamental theorem: if is differentiable on with and is integrable, then
A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion
A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included
Assuming countable choice, is a sigma-algebra containing every elementary set and is a complete measure extending elementary volume
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Sources
- R. Abeyaratne, Continuum Mechanics, Volume II of Lecture Notes on the Mechanics of Solids (MIT, 1988, revised 2020), Sections 3.7 (transport equations) and 4.2 (conservation of mass)
- W. Barsukow, Introduction to Conservation Laws: Theory and Numerics (lecture notes, TUM, Winter term 2021/22), Section 1.2.3, Theorem 1.1 (the transport theorem)