Plain-English statement
The carre du champ measures the part of the generator applied to a product that is not explained by the ordinary product rule.
Mathematical statement
Gamma(f,g) = (L(fg) - f Lg - g Lf)/2.
Intuition
For a diffusion generator, the defect isolates the quadratic gradient term. The abstract definition itself does not assert that this term is nonnegative.
Conditions
- L is a real linear map on real-valued observables
- products of the selected observables are available in the ambient function space
Why these conditions cannot be dropped
- linearity is the generator structure used by later semigroup arguments
- positivity requires Markov or diffusion structure and therefore cannot be hidden in this definition
Proof route
- define the expression pointwise
- derive symmetry separately from commutativity of multiplication
Lean interface notes
- the generator is represented by LinearMap
- function multiplication is pointwise
- the factor one half is represented in the real scalar field
Read the mathematics first, then descend into Lean
You do not need to know Lean before opening this panel. The page keeps the paper-level theorem, rigorous proof obligations, exact Lean declaration, and proof dependencies as separate layers so a first-time reader can move down one layer at a time.
Proof architecture
Start with the tree when learning: prerequisites sit below the theorem and downstream results sit above it. Switch to the network when you want to understand where this declaration lives in the local formal library. Every mapped node is clickable.
Graph rule: only dependencies found by the ASTIS source scan are drawn. Missing tactic indirection is treated as an under-approximation; the site never invents an edge just to make a prettier graph.
How to read the exact Lean declaration
Read a Lean theorem left-to-right exactly as you would unpack a mathematical sentence: name → ambient types → automatically inferred structures → explicit hypotheses → conclusion → proof. Then read the proof top-to-bottom as transformations of the current goal.
- NameWhat reusable mathematical fact is being created?
- ParametersWhich symbols are arbitrary, and which structures are inferred by typeclass search?
- PropositionAfter the colon, translate the Lean expression back into a paper statement.
- Proof actionsAfter
by, ask what each tactic does to the mathematical goal—not only what syntax it uses.
Syntax used on this page
This glossary is filtered to syntax that actually occurs in the declaration above. Open a symbol only when you meet it, rather than memorizing Lean grammar in advance.
Source voice and ASTIS voice stay separate
When Samplinglib shows a short quotation from Chewi, it is labeled as a source excerpt and linked to the canonical book page. Intuition, expanded proof steps, hidden regularity assumptions, and Lean explanations are ASTIS-authored commentary. A quotation never substitutes for a formal proof, and an ASTIS explanation is never attributed to the textbook author.
Lean statement
def carreDuChamp
(generator : (X → ℝ) →ₗ[ℝ] (X → ℝ))
(f g : X → ℝ) : X → ℝ :=
fun x => (2 : ℝ)⁻¹ *
(generator (f * g) x - f x * generator g x - g x * generator f x)
/-- The carre du champ is symmetric in its observable arguments. -/
Open AutoSamplingTheory/TechnicalLemmas/StochasticProcesses/CarreDuChamp.lean:35published source at 7bcd37294df1