A tempered distribution u on Euclidean space has compact support if there is a
compact K such that u annihilates every Schwartz function whose support is disjoint
from K.
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If μ has compact support in the Schwartz-pairing sense, then its distributional
support Distribution.dsupport μ is compact.
The reflection φ ↦ φ ∘ (-id) as a continuous linear endomorphism of the Schwartz
space 𝓢(EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n), ℂ).
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Cross-correlation with a compactly supported distribution μ, viewed as a continuous
linear endomorphism of 𝓢(EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n), ℂ).
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Convolution with a compactly supported distribution μ on Schwartz functions, given
as the reflection composed with cross-correlation.
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The convolution μ * f of two tempered distributions, defined when the left factor
μ has compact support, by precomposing f with convolution by μ on Schwartz test
functions.
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A decomposition of a tempered distribution u = singular + smooth into a singular
part with compact support contained in supportSet and a globally smooth, compactly
supported part. Used in the proof of singularSupport_convolution_subset.
- singular : TemperedDistribution (EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)) ℂ
- smooth : TemperedDistribution (EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)) ℂ
- supportSet : Set (EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n))
- supportSet_compact : IsCompact self.supportSet
- singular_supported (φ : SchwartzMap (EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)) ℂ) : Function.support ⇑φ ∩ self.supportSet = ∅ → self.singular φ = 0
- singular_compactSupport : HasCompactSupport self.singular
- smooth_isSmooth (x₀ : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)) : isSmoothNear self.smooth x₀
- smooth_compactSupport : HasCompactSupport self.smooth
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If u has compact support, then its singular support is compact (in particular,
closed and contained in the support of u).
Partition-of-unity identity for left multiplication by a tempered-growth function χ:
χ · u + (1 - χ) · u = u.
Multiplying a Schwartz function φ by a function χ (via SchwartzMap.smulLeftCLM)
can only shrink the support: supp (χ · φ) ⊆ supp φ.
If u has compact support, then so does the distribution χ · u obtained by left
multiplication by an arbitrary function χ.
If the support of the cutoff function χ is contained in S, then the distribution
χ · u annihilates every Schwartz function whose support is disjoint from S.
If a smooth function χ vanishes on the singular support of u, then the
distribution χ · u is smooth near every point.
Existence of a smooth complex-valued bump function which equals 1 on a neighbourhood
of a closed set F and is supported in a given compact superset K (with F ⊆ int K).
Existence of a SmoothDecomp of a compactly supported tempered distribution u into
a singular part supported in any compact set K containing the singular support in its
interior, plus a globally smooth, compactly supported remainder.
If a tempered distribution f is smooth near every point, then it is globally
represented by a single smooth function g: ⟨f, φ⟩ = ∫ φ(y) • g(y) dy.
Distributional Fubini for the convolution μ * φ of a compactly supported μ with a
Schwartz function φ, tested against a smooth function g: there is a Schwartz
representative ψ whose μ-convolution tempDistSchwartzConv μ ψ realises the
swap-of-order integral identity.
Given a compactly supported distribution μ and a smooth function g, there is a
smooth function h realising the swap-of-order identity for the μ-convolution against
g. Wrapper around distributional_fubini_compact_support.
If the right factor f of a distributional convolution μ * f is represented by a
smooth function g, then μ * f is smooth near every point.
If the right factor f is globally smooth, then the distributional convolution
μ * f is smooth near every point.
If the left factor μ is represented by a smooth function g_μ, then the
distributional convolution μ * f is smooth near every point.
If the left factor μ is globally smooth, then the distributional convolution
μ * f is smooth near every point.
If μ is supported in K₁ and f is supported in K₂ (in the Schwartz-pairing
sense), then distribConvolution μ f vanishes on the complement of the sum K₁ + K₂.
This is the support property supp (μ * f) ⊆ supp μ + supp f.
If a distribution u vanishes on an open neighbourhood U of p, then it is smooth
near p (with representative the zero function).
The sum u₁ + u₂ of two tempered distributions is smooth near p whenever both
summands are.
Additivity of distribConvolution in the left compactly-supported factor.
Additivity of distribConvolution in the right factor.
Tube-lemma–style enlargement: given compact K₁, K₂ and a point p outside
K₁ + K₂, there exist compact L₁, L₂ containing K₁, K₂ in their interiors with
p ∉ L₁ + L₂.
If the cutoff function χ is compactly supported, then χ · u is a compactly
supported distribution for every tempered u.
Multiplying a distribution u by a smooth function χ can only shrink the singular
support: singsupp (χ · u) ⊆ singsupp u.
If ψ equals 1 on an open set V, then the support of 1 - ψ is contained in the
complement of V.
Reduction step: to check smoothness of distribConvolution μ f near a point p
outside singsupp μ + singsupp f, one may replace f by a compactly supported
distribution f' with smaller singular support whose convolution carries the same local
smoothness information.
Bilinear expansion (μ₁ + μ₂) * (f₁ + f₂) = μ₁ * f₁ + μ₁ * f₂ + μ₂ * f₁ + μ₂ * f₂
for distributional convolution, used in the singular-support proof.
Congruence: replacing the arguments of distribConvolution by equal distributions
gives equal results, independent of the chosen compact-support witness.
The singular support of a distributional convolution is contained in the Minkowski
sum of the singular supports of the factors: singsupp (μ * f) ⊆ singsupp μ + singsupp f.
This is the central property underlying pseudodifferential calculus (Melrose,
Section 12).