Spatial Poincaré lemma: integrate a spatially closed Hessian on
ProvedNewtonCartan.exists_potential_of_spatial_Fnewton-cartanpoincare-lemmatrautman
Let be smooth on with , , and
Then there exists a smooth potential such that
The construction integrates the spatial Hessian on each constant- slice (global Poincaré lemma on ) and assembles the slices smoothly in .
Formalization Note. Corrects the retired exists_potential_of_closed_F.
Preamble
import Definitions.Def_NewtonCartan_defs open scoped ContDiff
Formal statement
namespace NewtonCartan
/-- If $F^a{}_d$ is smooth, vanishes on temporal indices, is symmetric, and is closed as a Hessian in
spatial indices, then there is smooth $\varphi$ with $\partial_j\partial_i\varphi = F^i{}_j$ for spatial $i,j$
(equivalently $\partial_j(\nabla^i\varphi)=F^i{}_j$). -/
theorem exists_potential_of_spatial_F (F : E → Fin 4 → Fin 4 → ℝ)
(hF : ContDiff ℝ ∞ F)
(hrow : ∀ x d, F x 0 d = 0) (hcol : ∀ x a, F x a 0 = 0)
(hsym : ∀ x i j, F x i j = F x j i)
(hclosed : ∀ x i j k, i ≠ 0 → j ≠ 0 → k ≠ 0 →
pd (fun y => F y i j) k x = pd (fun y => F y i k) j x) :
∃ φ : E → ℝ, ContDiff ℝ ∞ φ ∧
∀ x i j, i ≠ 0 → j ≠ 0 →
pd (fun y => gradUp φ y i) j x = F x i j := by sorry
end NewtonCartanSource
Malament Prop. 4.2.5 Poincaré step; Schwartz Thm. 2.29