Space-time ℝ^(n+1) for the heat equation, with the time coordinate at index 0 and
spatial coordinates at indices 1, …, n.
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The unit vector in the time direction (index 0) in space-time.
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The i-th spatial unit vector in space-time (at index i.succ, since 0 is time).
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The (positive) spatial Laplacian Δ_x = Σ ∂²/∂xᵢ² acting on tempered distributions on
space-time.
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The heat operator ∂_t - Δ_x acting on tempered distributions on space-time.
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A tempered distribution has compact distributional support if its dsupport is compact.
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The time coordinate of a space-time point x, i.e. x 0.
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A tempered distribution u is supported in {t ≥ c} if its distributional support is
contained in the half-space {x | timeCoord x ≥ c}.
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IsVanishingOn is preserved by subtraction: if u and v both vanish on s, so does
u - v.
The distributional support of u - v is contained in the union of the supports of u
and v.
If u is supported in {t ≥ a} and v is supported in {t ≥ b}, then u - v is supported
in {t ≥ min a b}.
SupportedInTimeGeq is invariant under negation of the distribution.
A distribution with compact distributional support is automatically supported in some
half-space {t ≥ b}: the time coordinate attains its minimum on a compact set.
The classical heat-kernel density (4πt)^(-n/2) · exp(-|x|²/(4t)) for t > 0, extended by
0 for t ≤ 0.
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The heat-kernel density is everywhere nonnegative.
The heat-kernel density vanishes whenever the time coordinate is nonpositive.
The heat-kernel measure on space-time: the Lebesgue measure weighted by the heat-kernel density.
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For t ≥ 1, the heat-kernel density is bounded above by 1.
On the half-space {t ≥ 1}, the heat-kernel measure is dominated by Lebesgue measure
(since the density there is at most 1).
The Gaussian exp(-b·|v|²) on Euclidean space ℝ^m is Lebesgue integrable for any b > 0.
The function (1 + ‖x‖)^(-(n+2)) is integrable with respect to the heat-kernel measure. This
provides the temperate growth witness needed to view the heat kernel as a tempered distribution.
The heat-kernel measure has temperate growth, witnessed by the integrability of
(1 + ‖x‖)^(-(n+2)) against it.
The forward fundamental solution of the heat operator: the tempered distribution associated to the heat-kernel measure via the temperate-growth representation.
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The heat-kernel density is measurable.
The weighted-integral form of the fundamental-solution identity: integrating the formal
adjoint -∂_t - Δ_x applied to a Schwartz function against the heat-kernel density yields
φ(0).
The measure-theoretic form of the fundamental-solution identity: integrating the formal
adjoint of the heat operator against φ with respect to the heat-kernel measure equals φ(0).
The forward fundamental solution applied to the formal adjoint of the heat operator
evaluated at φ yields φ(0).
The forward fundamental solution satisfies the heat-equation distributional identity
(∂_t - Δ_x) E = δ₀, identifying E as a fundamental solution of the heat operator.
The forward fundamental solution is supported in the forward time half-space {t ≥ 0},
since the heat-kernel density vanishes for t ≤ 0.
The continuous linear map sending a Schwartz function φ to the convolution
v * φ (smoothed via the compact-distributional-support convolution construction), packaged
as a 𝓢(ℝ^(n+1), ℂ) →L[ℂ] 𝓢(ℝ^(n+1), ℂ) map.
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Evaluating the reflected convolution reflConvSchwartzMap n f hf φ at the origin recovers
f φ.
The distributional convolution dconv n u v hv = u * v when v has compact distributional
support, defined as the composition of u with the reflected-convolution Schwartz map.
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The Fréchet derivative of the convolution f * φ is computed via the test-function
translation identity.
Commutation of reflConvSchwartzMap with directional derivatives: applying the line
derivative ∂_{-m} to φ before convolving equals applying ∂_m after convolving.
The line derivative ∂_{-m} of a distributional convolution dconv n u f hf equals the
convolution of ∂_m u with f.
The heat operator commutes with the distributional convolution:
heatOperator (u * f) = (heatOperator u) * f when f has compact distributional support.
The Dirac delta at the origin is the identity for distributional convolution:
δ₀ * f = f for any f with compact distributional support.
If the distributional support of u is contained in a closed set S, then u vanishes
on the open complement Sᶜ (in the sense that u φ = 0 whenever tsupport φ ⊆ Sᶜ).
Support property of the reflected-convolution Schwartz map: if f is supported in
{t ≥ b} and φ has time support in {t < a + b}, then the convolution
reflConvSchwartzMap n f hf φ has time support in {t < a}.
If u is supported in {t ≥ a} and f is supported in {t ≥ b}, then u vanishes on
the convolution reflConvSchwartzMap n f hf φ whenever φ has time support in {t < a + b}.
Support additivity for the distributional convolution: if u is supported in {t ≥ a}
and f in {t ≥ b}, then dconv n u f hf is supported in {t ≥ a + b}.
Cutoff heat-kernel identity: there exists a cutoff E_s of the forward fundamental solution
with compact distributional support and an "error" distribution ψ (supported in {t ≥ s}) such
that the heat operator applied to the convolution v * E_s equals v + v * ψ for all v. This
is a key technical tool for the uniqueness argument in Prop 11.16.
Cutoff perturbation identity for homogeneous heat solutions: for every s, there is a
distribution ψ (with compact distributional support, supported in {t ≥ s}) such that any
solution v of the homogeneous heat equation satisfies v + v * ψ = 0.
Support-shift lemma for homogeneous heat solutions: a homogeneous solution v whose support
lies in {t ≥ T'} is in fact supported in {t ≥ T' + s} for every s. Iterating this drives
the support to ∅, yielding uniqueness.
A tempered distribution with empty distributional support is the zero distribution.
Uniqueness statement for the homogeneous heat equation: any solution v of
(∂_t - Δ_x) v = 0 whose distributional support is bounded below in time must vanish.
The heat operator is linear, in particular `heatOperator (u - v) = heatOperator u
- heatOperator v`.
Proposition 11.16 (existence and uniqueness for the heat equation): for every tempered
distribution f with compact distributional support, there is a unique tempered distribution u,
bounded below in time, satisfying (∂_t - Δ_x) u = f.