Analysis of dynamic ruptures generating seismic waves in a self-gravitating planet: an iterative coupling scheme and well-posedness

Kundan Kumar; Maarten V. de Hoop; Ruichao Ye

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Analysis of dynamic ruptures generating seismic waves in a self-gravitating planet: an iterative coupling scheme and well-posedness

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Pith's one-line read The paper proves that adding a small viscosity term to the elastic-gravitational wave system makes the rate-and-state friction rupture problem well-posed, and that the natural iterative coupling scheme converges as a contraction.

desk verdict A serious and needed analysis, but the contraction proof rests on a false estimate, so the main theorems don't yet hold as written. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.08607 v1 pith:BSC7QBDC submitted 2019-08-22 physics.comp-ph physics.geo-ph

Maarten V. de Hoop , Kundan Kumar , Ruichao Ye This is my paper · ORCID

classification physics.comp-phphysics.geo-ph MSC 35Q7474H2074H2586A15

keywords dynamicrupturerateandstatefrictionseismicwavegenerationself-gravitatingplanetiterativecouplingviscousregularizationwell-posednessweaksolution

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The paper addresses a gap in the mathematical theory of earthquakes: the system that couples seismic waves in a self-gravitating, prestressed elastic planet to a rate-and-state friction law (fault strength depending on slip rate and an evolving state variable) had no rigorous weak-formulation well-posedness result in three dimensions. It proposes an iterative scheme that alternates between solving the elastic-gravitational wave equation and updating the friction state variable, and proves that the iteration is a contraction in natural energy norms once a small Kelvin-Voigt viscosity is added and the slip rate is regularized. The main results are Theorem 4.1 for continuous time and Theorem 6.1 for backward-Euler time stepping, with explicit conditions linking the viscosity coefficient $\gamma$, the time horizon, and the friction and geometry constants. If correct, the paper supplies the missing existence proof for the regularized coupled system and gives numerical analysts concrete criteria for choosing artificial viscosity in rupture simulations.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing construction is the regularized slip rate $\Psi_\varepsilon(v)=\sqrt{|v|^2+\varepsilon^2}-\varepsilon$, which smooths the non-differentiable $|v|$ term in the friction law, together with the Kelvin-Voigt viscosity term $\gamma(\dot u,w)_H$ added to the weak elastic-gravitational form. The iterative scheme decouples the wave equation (4.1) from the state ODE (4.2); the proof subtracts equations for two successive iterates, bounds the error using the coercivity of the prestressed elastic form $a'_3$, trace inequalities for the fault surface, and Gronwall's lemma, and chooses $\gamma$ large enough (condition (4.4)) to absorb the friction and normal-stress coupling terms. It is this viscosity that gives the $H$-norm dissipation needed to turn the nonlinear iteration into a contraction.

What would settle it

Evaluate the ratio $R=(\sqrt{|i|^2+\varepsilon^2}-\sqrt{|j|^2+\varepsilon^2})/(|i|-|j|)$ for slip-rate vectors $i,j$ with $|i|\ne|j|$ and seek its infimum over admissible values, for example $|i|\to 0$ with $|j|$ vanishing; if $R$ is not bounded away from zero for fixed $\varepsilon$, the uniform constant $C_\varepsilon$ asserted in the estimate after (4.14) does not exist and the proof of Theorem 4.1 needs a different argument.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the viscosity-regularized coupled system has a unique weak solution that can be computed by a splitting iteration. In Theorem 4.1, the paper shows that, under the coefficient conditions (4.4), the map from one iterate $(u^{k-1},\psi^{k-1})$ to the next is a contraction in $V_1 \times V_2$, with a contraction factor $\lambda < 1$ and constants $\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_4$ in the energy norm (4.5). Theorem 5.2 then passes to the limit and shows the fixed point solves the original weak Problem 3.1, establishing existence and uniqueness of the regularized solution. Theorem 6.1 extends the contraction to the implicitly discretized backward-Euler scheme, with the viscosity coefficient proportional to the time step. The friction law is not solved directly; it enters as a pointwise nonlinear boundary condition through the regularized functional $\mathcal{F}_\varepsilon$, and the viscosity term $\gamma(\dot u,w)_H$ is the term that makes the error estimate close.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the regularized slip-rate difference $\sqrt{|i|^2+\varepsilon^2}-\sqrt{|j|^2+\varepsilon^2}$ stays above a uniform positive constant times the unregularized difference $\bigl||i|-|j|\bigr|$ for all iterates; the entire contraction estimate collapses if that ratio can be arbitrarily small.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Earthquake rupture simulations on self-gravitating earth models can use multi-rate time stepping, with fine steps for the friction state ODE and coarser steps for seismic waves, while the iteration between them converges linearly.
The explicit conditions (4.4) turn the choice of artificial viscosity from a numerical tuning parameter into a criterion: $\gamma$ must dominate products of the friction sensitivity constants and the fault-surface trace constants, with larger values needed for less regular fault geometry.
The same iterative-coupling analysis applies to the alternative Lagrangian formulation of the prestressed wave equation, so the well-posedness result is not tied to one version of the stress tensor.
With backward-Euler time discretization, the contraction survives if the viscosity coefficient scales with the time step, and the required ratio $\gamma/\delta t$ is again controlled by friction sensitivity and fault geometry.
The state-variable equation converges in $L^\infty([0,T];L^2(\Sigma_f))$ and the displacement, velocity, and gradient converge strongly in their natural spaces, giving a convergence certificate for the computed rupture process.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Because the contraction constant and the coefficient conditions depend on $\varepsilon$ through the constant $C_\varepsilon$ (which tends to 1 as $\varepsilon \to 0$), the proof does not automatically extend to the unregularized friction law; a separate argument would be needed to pass $\varepsilon \to 0$ uniformly.
The conditions suggest that for planar faults with weak normal-stress coupling, numerical dissipation alone may satisfy the viscosity threshold, while nonplanar faults or materials with strong impedance contrast require explicit added viscosity; this could be tested systematically by measuring iteration contraction rates in a numerical rupture code.
The same splitting strategy, with the state ODE on the fault and the wave field in the volume, could be adapted to rupture problems with thermal pressurization or poroelastic stress perturbations, since those enter only through the time-regular forcing $T_\delta$.
If the comparability of regularized and unregularized slip-rate differences fails near zero slip, the physically relevant fixed point may still exist, but its rate of convergence and the required viscosity could differ from the theorem's predictions; a numerical check on the empirical contraction factor as slip rates approach zero would reveal whether this happens in practice.

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The paper takes on a real gap: no well-posedness analysis exists for rate-and-state friction coupled to the self-gravitating elastic system, and the iterative coupling / multi-rate time stepping perspective is genuinely useful. The variational setup, the function spaces, and the viscous regularization are all clearly presented, and the authors are honest that they only treat the regularized problem. That is the good part.

But the central contraction theorem, Theorem 4.1, has a load-bearing flaw. After (4.14) the authors assert that there is a uniform constant C_epsilon > 0 with C_epsilon ||i|-|j|| <= |sqrt(|i|^2+eps^2)-sqrt(|j|^2+eps^2)|. That is false: take j=0 and i=t e with t going to 0; the right side behaves like t^2/(2eps), which is much smaller than t, so no positive constant can work for all t. The paper's own bound (3.11) shows the regularized slip rate is smaller than the actual slip rate, so the difference can be far smaller. This invalidates the negative dissipative term -C_epsilon C_{F,s}||eps_s^k||^2 that controls the state-error coupling. The proof also uses unquantified first-order expansions, denoted by an approximate equality sign, in (4.15) and (4.20), without bounding remainders. Those are sloppy, but the false C_epsilon bound is fatal on its own.

The viscosity term could possibly provide the missing control of the slip-rate trace, since it gives -gamma||dot-eps_u||^2_H, and the trace inequality bounds the slip-rate difference. But the proof as written does not exploit that; it relies entirely on the false C_epsilon. So the contraction claim, and therefore Theorems 5.2 and 6.1, are not supported by the presented mathematics.

This paper is for mathematical seismologists and numerical analysts working on rupture simulation. It deserves a serious referee, because the gap is real and the approach is promising, but as it stands it should not be accepted. The fix may be possible—replace the C_epsilon argument with a direct use of the viscosity to control the slip-rate trace, and make the Taylor expansions rigorous—but that is substantial work. Send it to peer review, but expect major revision.

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Summary. The manuscript develops an iterative coupling scheme for the elastic-gravitational wave equation coupled to a rate-and-state friction law on an interior fault surface. Two regularizations are introduced: a Kelvin–Voigt viscosity coefficient gamma and a smoothed slip-rate functional Psi_eps(v) = sqrt(|v|^2 + eps^2) - eps. The authors formulate a weak problem (Problem 3.1), propose a Gauss–Seidel-type iteration (Problem 4.1), and claim in Theorem 4.1 that the iteration map is a contraction in V1 x V2 under conditions (4.4) on T and gamma. From the contraction they derive strong convergence (Corollary 5.1) and existence of a weak solution (Theorem 5.2), and they extend the contraction argument to backward-Euler time discretization in Theorem 6.1. The abstract states that viscosity guarantees convergence of the scheme for solutions of the regularized problems in both continuous and discrete time.

Significance. If the central results were correct, the paper would make a substantial contribution: a rigorous well-posedness framework for dynamic rupture with rate-and-state friction in a self-gravitating, prestressed elastic body, with explicit conditions on the artificial viscosity, the time step, and the contraction rate. The paper builds in a transparent way on established energy estimates of de Hoop, Holman and Pham and on the Martins–Oden approach, and the authors state the role of each assumption clearly. The discrete-time analysis is a useful addition. However, the main contraction proof rests on a quantitative monotonicity claim that is false, and this invalidates the central existence and convergence theorems as written.

major comments (2)

[§4.2, after Eq. (4.14)] The proof of Theorem 4.1 requires a uniform positive constant C_eps with C_eps |eps_s^k| <= |eps_s^{eps,k}| for all slip-rate vectors, where eps_s^{eps,k} is the difference of the regularized slip rates. This assertion is false. Taking j = 0 and i = t e with t > 0 small, the unregularized difference is t while the regularized difference is sqrt(t^2 + eps^2) - eps ~ t^2/(2 eps) as t -> 0, so the ratio tends to 0 and no positive constant C_eps independent of t can exist. The constant C_eps enters the only negative term -C_{F,s} C_eps ||eps_s^k||^2 in (4.15), which must absorb the C*_{F,sigma} and C*_{F,psi} coupling terms and the C*_{G,s} term in (4.19). Without this term the dissipation balance (4.21) and hence the contraction (4.5) do not follow. The same constant is reused in the discrete-time proof through (6.12), so Theorem 6.1 is affected equally. Since Theorem 4.1 feeds directly into Corollary 5.1, Theorem 5.2, and Theorem 6.1, the central well-posedness and convergence claims are not supported as written.
[§4.2, Eqs. (4.15) and (4.20)] The proof replaces nonlinear differences by first-order Taylor expansions marked with approximate equality signs without estimating the remainder terms. Assumptions 2.3 and 2.4 only give Lipschitz continuity and bounded first derivatives of F and G; they do not justify pointwise equalities up to controlled remainders in the required L^2(Σ_f) norms. For a contraction argument with a strict rate lambda < 1, every remainder must be explicitly bounded and absorbed in the estimates. As written, these expansions constitute a second, independent gap in the proof of Theorem 4.1.

minor comments (3)

[§4.2, Eq. (4.16)] There is an indexing inconsistency in the normal-stress error term: the first equality writes bar_sigma(eps^k_u), while the bound on the right is expressed in terms of eps^{k-1}_u. Since the iteration uses u^{k-1} in the normal stress, the error should be eps^{k-1}_u.
[Throughout] There are several typographical errors: 'vatious' in the introduction, 'simultions' in Remark 4.3, 'we proof the existence' at the start of Section 5, and 'Cauchy-Schwartz' in the proof of Lemma 3.3 should be 'Cauchy-Schwarz'.
[Remark 4.2] The description of subdividing the time interval and restarting iterations on each segment would benefit from a precise statement of how the initial guess for each new time segment is obtained and how the contraction constants propagate across segments.

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No significant circularity: the iterative-coupling contraction proof is self-contained; prior self-citations supply background energy estimates, not the target result.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is the contraction of the iterative coupling scheme (Theorem 4.1) and the resulting existence of a weak solution (Theorem 5.2), together with the discrete-time analogue (Theorem 6.1). The proof proceeds by subtracting successive iterates, deriving energy estimates, and applying Gronwall's lemma; no parameter is fitted to data, and no target quantity is renamed from an input. The self-citations to [13] (de Hoop, Holman, Pham) are used to import background regularity assumptions, the coercivity of a_3, boundedness, and an estimate for ||∇S(u)||; these are prior results whose assumptions do not include the coupled friction problem, so they constitute independent support rather than circular premises. The citation to [29] (Martins and Oden) supplies the classical framework for the decoupled contact problem, again not the target conclusion. The companion-paper citation [52] is an announcement of an algorithm, not a load-bearing argument. The mathematical flaw identified by the reviewer — the assertion after (4.14) that C_ε |ε_s^k| ≤ |ε_s^{ε,k}| with a uniform positive C_ε, which is false for one slip rate zero and the other tending to zero — is a correctness problem in the proof of Theorem 4.1, not a circularity: the contraction conclusion does not reduce to that inequality by construction; it depends on it as an (incorrect) estimate. Similarly, the first-order expansions marked with '≈' in (4.15) and (4.20) are unrigorous analytic steps, not input-output identification. Therefore, under the stated circularity criteria, the paper exhibits no significant circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 8 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central proof depends on the friction law being smooth and monotone, on a simplified state variable ODE, and on a false strong-monotonicity property of the regularized slip rate. The viscosity and regularization parameters are chosen by hand rather than derived from the physical model.

free parameters (3)

gamma (artificial viscosity coefficient)
Introduced ad hoc in Problem 3.1 to regularize the system and force contraction of the iterative scheme. The convergence conditions require a strictly positive value, and Remark 4.3 notes that gamma = 0 destroys the contraction.
epsilon (friction regularization parameter)
Introduced in eq. (3.9) to smooth the slip-rate norm in the friction functional. The proof relies on a uniform lower bound of the regularized difference that does not actually exist for this parameter.
lambda (contraction rate)
A constant chosen in (0,1) used to state sufficient conditions on gamma and the time step in Theorems 4.1 and 6.1. It is a proof device, not a physical parameter.

assumptions (8)

domain assumption Assumption 2.1: F and G are uniformly Lipschitz continuous
Stated as Assumption 2.1; necessary for the error estimates in Theorems 4.1 and 6.1.
domain assumption Assumption 2.3: F has positive lower bounds on partial derivatives with respect to slip rate, normal stress, and state
Stated as Assumption 2.3; provides the coercive negative term in the friction error estimate.
domain assumption Assumption 2.4: G is monotone in state and has bounded derivative with respect to slip rate
Stated as Assumption 2.4; used for the state-variable error estimate in (4.19).
domain assumption Simplified state ODE (2.21): psi_dot + G(s,psi) = 0, ignoring normal stress dependence
Adopted from Dieterich-Ruina friction laws; removes sigma dependence in state evolution, which is essential for the ODE estimate.
domain assumption No-opening fault: compressive normal stress remains positive throughout the rupture
Stated before Assumption 2.1; ensures friction force is non-vanishing and the normal stress map is well-defined.
ad hoc to paper Uniform strong monotonicity of the regularized slip rate phi_eps
Asserted after eq. (4.14) with a uniform constant C_eps. This is false, as a counterexample with a slip rate tending to zero shows. The estimate is load-bearing for the contraction proof.
domain assumption Coercivity and boundedness of the bilinear form a3, based on Assumption 2.5
Borrowed from de Hoop, Holman and Pham [13]; governs the energy norms used in the contraction.
standard math Standard functional analysis tools: Sobolev trace theorem, Gronwall inequality, elliptic regularity
Used throughout Sections 3 to 6; assumed without proof.

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We study the solution of the system of equations describing the dynamical evolution of spontaneous ruptures generated in a prestressed elastic-gravitational deforming body and governed by rate and state friction laws. We propose an iterative coupling scheme based on a weak formulation with nonlinear interior boundary conditions, both for continuous time and with implicit discretization (backward Euler) in time. We regularize the problem by introducing viscosity. This guarantees the convergence of the scheme for solutions of the regularized problems in both cases. We also make precise the conditions on the relevant coefficients for convergence to hold.

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