Proof.
The key technique is to construct a parametrix for the Green operator semi-explicitly, with precise control on its mapping properties.
Given a function with , temporarily assumed to have sufficient decay at infinity, we will construct an approximate solution to the Poisson equation as follows. Take a smooth cutoff function
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then has norm and is supported in . Applying Lemma 2.18, the function satisfies . By Lemma 2.19 we can choose large enough independent of to ensure
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Next we take smooth cutoff functions near , such that
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and similarly with . The function
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is supported in with bound . So we can apply Lemma 2.20 and Lemma 2.21 to find with bounds
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Completely analogous constructions are made near and , where we obtain with similar bounds.
Let be a smooth cutoff function
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and define , which is supported in the ball and admits the bound . Then we can apply Lemma 2.22 to obtain with bounds
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We set . The key point is that by construction
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namely is an approximate solution to the Poisson equation with bounds. A subtlety is that is fully controlled while is only controlled up to an additive constant. In any event, after extending the definition of the operator by removing the fast decay hypotheses on , we have defined a bounded linear operator between weighted Hölder spaces of -invariant functions and symmetric 2-tensors on
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such that the operator is an approximation to the identity. Thus
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is a bounded right inverse to . Composing with the projection to the type (1,1)-forms defines the operator
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which takes value in closed (1,1)-forms and is a bounded inverse to
. It is worth commenting that the same operators work for different exponents .
It remains to relate and to the Green operator when has sufficient decay at infinity. The point is that for fast decay weights and , the Hessian control
together with the a priori qualitative decay at infinity, imply the quantitative bound
This enables us to extend to a bounded linear operator
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and the operator
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defines an inverse to the Laplacian . By the uniqueness of decaying solution to the Poisson equation
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as required.
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