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Partial Antidifferentiability (Real Scalar Fields)#

Definition: Partial Antidifferentiability

Let \(f: \mathcal{D} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}\) be a real scalar field.

We say that \(f\) is partially antidifferentiable on an open set \(U \subseteq \mathcal{D}\) with respect to the \(k\)-th variable if there exists a real scalar field \(F: U \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}\) whose partial derivative w.r.t. the \(k\)-variable is \(f\):

\[\partial_k F = f\]

We call \(F\) a partial antiderivative of \(f\) with respect to the \(k\)-th variable.

Notation

If the components of the input are labelled \(x_1, \dotsc, x_n\), i.e. \(f(x_1, \dotsc, x_n)\), then the set of all partial antiderivatives of \(f\) on \(U\) w.r.t. the \(k\)-th variable is denoted as follows:

\[\int f(x_1, \dotsc, x_n) \,\mathrm{d}x_k\]

Theorem: Antiderivatives Structure

TODO

Proof

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