Boundedness of the real winding integrand at C^{1,1} crossings #
Winding/BoundedIntegrand.lean proves the real winding integrand stays bounded near a crossing
where the curve is C². This file weakens that regularity to merely C^{1,1} on each side of the
crossing: derivWithin γ (Icc c d) Lipschitz on a one-sided closed piece [c, d] ending or
starting at the crossing, with no second derivative -- pointwise or almost everywhere -- assumed
to exist anywhere, and no assumption that the two sides agree. This covers a crossing that
coincides with a breakpoint of a piecewise-C¹ immersion (a corner, where the two one-sided
tangents may differ), not just a crossing where γ is genuinely differentiable on a full
two-sided neighborhood. This is a genuinely different proof technique from the C² case, not a
weakening of it: the C² proof reads the bounded limit off an explicit curvature value at the
crossing (which needs a second derivative there); this file instead bounds the integrand directly
from the quadratic remainder a Lipschitz derivative forces on the curve itself, via the mean value
inequality applied to the affine remainder on the segment from the crossing to each nearby
parameter -- entirely on one side at a time, so the two sides never need to interact. Only plain
differentiability of γ is assumed (not continuity of its derivative): Lipschitz-ness of
derivWithin γ (Icc c d) already gives that for free.
Main results #
TauCeti.Contour.exists_isBounded_image_realWindingIntegrand_of_lipschitzOnWith_derivWithin_rightand..._left-- the real winding integrand is bounded on a small enough one-sided window, starting (resp. ending) at a crossing wherederivWithin γis Lipschitz and non-zero there, on the one-sided piece the window lies in...._corner-- the two one-sided windows above combined into one full neighborhood of the crossing, allowing the two sides to disagree.
References #
- N. Hungerbühler and M. Wasem, Non-integer valued winding numbers and a generalized Residue Theorem, arXiv:1808.00997 (2018), Proposition 2.3 and its proof (which handles a crossing at a corner via exactly this one-sided splitting, p. 9).
Boundedness of the real winding integrand at a C^{1,1} crossing, from the right. If γ
is differentiable on [t₀, d] and derivWithin γ (Icc t₀ d) is K-Lipschitz there and non-zero
at t₀, where γ t₀ = w, then the real winding integrand (the ordinary derivative, which agrees
with the within-piece one strictly inside [t₀, d]) is bounded on a small enough right-window
[t₀, t₀ + ρ] -- no second derivative, pointwise or almost everywhere, is assumed to exist
anywhere, and no assumption is made about γ to the left of t₀. At t₀ itself deriv γ t₀ may
take any junk value (it need not equal the one-sided derivWithin): the integrand there is
realWindingIntegrand 0 _, independent of the velocity argument, so the junk value is harmless.
This is the corner case of Winding/BoundedIntegrand.lean's smooth-crossing result: t₀ may
coincide with a breakpoint of a piecewise-C¹ immersion, where the left tangent may disagree with
this one.
Boundedness of the real winding integrand at a C^{1,1} crossing, from the left. If γ
is differentiable on [c, t₀] and derivWithin γ (Icc c t₀) is K-Lipschitz there and non-zero
at t₀, where γ t₀ = w, then the real winding integrand (the ordinary derivative, which agrees
with the within-piece one strictly inside [c, t₀]) is bounded on a small enough left-window
[t₀ - ρ, t₀] -- no second derivative, pointwise or almost everywhere, is assumed to exist
anywhere, and no assumption is made about γ to the right of t₀. As in _right, deriv γ t₀'s
junk value at the crossing itself is harmless: the integrand there is realWindingIntegrand 0 _,
independent of the velocity argument. The mirror case of _right above.
Boundedness of the real winding integrand on the full neighborhood of a C^{1,1} corner
crossing. Combines _right and _left above into the full two-sided window [t₀ - ρ, t₀ + ρ],
allowing the two sides to have genuinely different pieces and Lipschitz constants, as at a
corner where the one-sided tangents themselves may differ.