Chapter WaveUnboundedPotential
DefinitionChapterWaveUnboundedPotentialdefinitionsformalizationtimepiece
Formal definitions for the timepiece Lean 4 formalization (source chapter BookProof/ChapterWaveUnboundedPotential.lean): generated def bundle for ChapterWaveUnboundedPotential. See BookProof/ChapterWaveUnboundedPotential.lean for full context.
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import Definitions.Def_ChapterStrichartzWave
import Definitions.Def_ChapterWaveBoundedPotential
import Mathlib
/-!
# Unbounded (polynomial) potentials: what is proved, and where the obstruction lies
`BookProof.ChapterWaveBoundedPotential` proves `□ + V` essentially self-adjoint on the
Schwartz core of `L²(ℝ^{1+n})` for a real **essentially bounded** `V`. The next target
recorded in `CONSOLIDATED_PLAN.md` §9.5 is the unbounded case: a potential which is a
polynomial (hence unbounded) but bounded below, via the three steps
> (a) localize with `exists_smooth_cutoff`, so that on each ball the truncated potential is
> essentially bounded; (b) apply `wave_add_potential_essentiallySelfAdjoint` to each
> truncation; (c) pass to the limit `R → ∞`.
This module carries out (a) and (b) unconditionally, adds the unbounded-potential theorem
that the *potential alone* is essentially self-adjoint, and states precisely what (c) needs.
## Contents
* **Multiplication by an unbounded potential.** `potentialOp W` is multiplication by a real
function `W` of temperate growth — every polynomial qualifies, so the operator is
genuinely unbounded. `potentialOp_symmetric` and `potentialOp_essentiallySelfAdjoint`
show that it is symmetric and essentially self-adjoint on the Schwartz core, with **no**
boundedness and **no** semiboundedness hypothesis. The proof is the position-space twin
of the Fourier-multiplier argument of `ChapterStrichartzWave`: a deficiency vector `u`
satisfies `∫ conj ψ · (W - z) · u = 0` for every Schwartz `ψ`, and dividing a smooth
compactly supported `χ` by the nowhere-vanishing smooth function `W - z̄` produces such a
`ψ` with `conj ψ · (W - z) = χ`, whence `u = 0`.
`polynomialPotential_essentiallySelfAdjoint` is the special case `W x = ‖x‖^(2k)`, an
unbounded polynomial potential which is bounded below.
* **The operator `□ + W` for an unbounded `W`.** It is well defined on the Schwartz core
(Schwartz space is invariant under multiplication by a temperate function) and symmetric:
`wave_add_potentialOp_symmetric`. This is the precise Lean statement of the target
operator of §9.5.
* **Steps (a)+(b): localization.** `opL2_potentialOp_eq_mulL2` identifies the
multiplication operator of this module with the bounded `mulL2` of
`ChapterWaveBoundedPotential` whenever the potential is essentially bounded, so the
bounded theorem applies verbatim to the truncations:
`wave_add_boundedPotentialOp_essentiallySelfAdjoint` and, for a potential of temperate
growth cut off at radius `R`, `wave_add_truncatedPotential_essentiallySelfAdjoint` —
for every `R` there is a `W_R` of temperate growth, agreeing with `W` on the ball of
radius `R`, with `□ + W_R` essentially self-adjoint on the Schwartz core.
* **Step (c): the residue, and a sign warning.** Passing from the truncations to `□ + W`
is not a formal limit, and the failure is not merely technical. With the sign convention
of this project (`□ = -∂_t² + Δ_x`), a Fourier transform in the time variable turns
`□ + W` (for `W` a function of the space variables) into the fibre operators
`4π²τ² - (-Δ_x - W)`. A potential **bounded below** therefore makes the fibre Schrödinger
operator `-Δ_x - W` unbounded **below**, which is exactly the limit-circle regime where
essential self-adjointness fails (`-d²/dx² - x⁴` has deficiency indices `(2,2)`). The
sign under which the localization argument can close is the opposite one: `W` bounded
*above* for `□ = -∂_t² + Δ_x`, equivalently `W` bounded below for the opposite-signature
convention `□ = ∂_t² - Δ_x` used in the physics literature. Nothing here claims the
unbounded case; the theorems below are exactly the unconditional part.
-/
namespace BookProof.StrichartzWave
open MeasureTheory SchwartzMap FourierTransform ComplexInnerProductSpace ENNReal
variable {V : Type*} [NormedAddCommGroup V] [InnerProductSpace ℝ V] [FiniteDimensional ℝ V]
[MeasurableSpace V] [BorelSpace V]
/-! ## Multiplication by an unbounded real potential -/
/-- Multiplication by a real potential `W`, as an operator on Schwartz space. The operator
is well defined (Schwartz space is invariant) as soon as `W` has temperate growth, which
holds for every polynomial; no boundedness is required. -/
noncomputable def potentialOp (W : V → ℝ) : 𝓢(V, ℂ) →L[ℂ] 𝓢(V, ℂ) :=
SchwartzMap.smulLeftCLM ℂ (fun x => (W x : ℂ))
/-! ## The operator `□ + W` for an unbounded potential -/
/-! ## The dual statement: arbitrary real Fourier multipliers
The potential theorem above is the position-space half of the picture. Conjugating it with
the Fourier transform gives the momentum-space half: *every* real symbol of temperate growth
— not just the quadratic symbols of `constCoeffOp` — defines an essentially self-adjoint
operator on the Schwartz core. This covers all constant-coefficient differential operators
with real symbol of any order, for instance `□²` and the polyharmonic operators `(-Δ)^k`. -/
/-- The Fourier multiplier with symbol `m`, as an operator on Schwartz space. -/
noncomputable def multiplierOp (m : V → ℝ) : 𝓢(V, ℂ) →L[ℂ] 𝓢(V, ℂ) :=
(FourierTransform.fourierCLE ℂ 𝓢(V, ℂ)).symm.toContinuousLinearMap ∘L potentialOp m ∘L
(FourierTransform.fourierCLE ℂ 𝓢(V, ℂ)).toContinuousLinearMap
section ConstCoeff
variable {ι : Type*} [Fintype ι]
end ConstCoeff
/-! ## Localization: the truncated potential -/
end BookProof.StrichartzWave
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