Substitutes a translated smooth kernel into the weak equation and
tracks the reflection sign.
Statement
Let
be a finite-dimensional real normed vector space with its Borel
structure and an additive Haar measure
.
Let
be open and
locally integrable on
.
Assume
for every
vector field
for which a compact set
satisfies
Here
.
Fix
and
with
,
and define
For
,
let
be the normalized smooth bump centered at zero with inner radius
and outer radius
;
thus
,
,
and its closed support lies in
.
Put
Then for every
,
every
,
and every
,
Assumptions
The ball data are supplied here; the theorem does not choose them.
Only local integrability of
on
is required, not global integrability or Lipschitz continuity. The weak
predicate alone would not imply integrability, so the separate
local-integrability hypothesis is retained. Dimension zero and any
direction, including
,
are allowed.
Conclusion
Every directional derivative of this localized mollification vanishes
at every point of the inner ball. The conclusion is pointwise for the
smooth function
;
it does not claim that the rough function
is pointwise constant.
The local ball data also name the middle ball
.
The translated test field used in the proof has a chosen compact carrier
inside this middle ball and hence inside
.
A carrier is a compact set containing the nonzero set and its closure;
it need not equal either. For a set
,
denotes its indicator, equal to one on
and zero off
.
Thus the localized function is also written
.
Proof route
Use
as the actual vector test field. Its divergence is the negative kernel
derivative. Compact localization leaves its weak integral unchanged, and
the derivative formula for convolution identifies the resulting zero
integral with
.
Proof steps
Construct an admissible field. Define
It is
(in fact smooth), and its nonzero set is contained in
.
Finite dimensionality makes this closed ball compact. For
,
since
and
,
Thus
,
so the weak equation applies to this very field and carrier.
Compute the divergence with its sign. For an
arbitrary direction
,
differentiating the reflected smooth kernel gives
Identify the localized integral. On
,
both
and
.
Off
,
the field is zero on an open neighborhood, because
is closed and contains its nonzero set. Consequently
and
there. These two cases give the pointwise identity
As
is open and hence measurable, integration and the weak equation yield
Here the
compact-localization integrability lemma applies to the given local
integrability on
and the compact set
,
and makes
globally integrable. The kernel derivative is continuous, bounded, and
compactly supported after translation; the displayed products are
integrable as well.
Substitute the derivative formula. The localized
function
is locally integrable on
.
Apply the
derivative formula for local mollifications with this same
,
the positive radius
,
the index
,
the point
,
and the direction
.
It identifies the last integral below with
.
Using Step 2 in Step 3 gives
Therefore
.
The calculation differentiates the smooth kernel and its convolution,
never
or the discontinuous cutoff
.