We prove fractional order Hardy inequalities on open sets under a combined fatness and visibility condition on the boundary. We demonstrate by counterexamples that fatness conditions alone are not sufficient for such Hardy inequalities to hold. In addition, we give a short exposition of various fatness conditions related to our main result, and apply fractional Hardy inequalities in connection with the boundedness of extension operators for fractional Sobolev spaces.

We prove a Hardy inequality for the fractional Laplacian on the interval with the optimal constant and additional lower order term. As a consequence, we also obtain a fractional Hardy inequality with the best constant and an extra lower order term for general domains, following the method of M. Loss and C. Sloane [J. Funct. Anal. 259 (2010)].

We prove a fractional version of the Hardy-Sobolev-Maz’ya inequality for arbitrary domains and $L^p$ norms with p ≥ 2. This inequality combines the fractional Sobolev and the fractional Hardy inequality into a single inequality, while keeping the sharp constant in the Hardy inequality.

We introduce function spaces $B^{p,\lambda }$ with Morrey-Campanato norms, which unify $B^{p,\lambda }$, $CM{O}^{p,\lambda }$ and Morrey-Campanato spaces, and prove the boundedness of the fractional integral operator $I_{\alpha }$ on these spaces.

We study the mapping properties of fractional maximal operators in Sobolev and Campanato spaces in metric measure spaces. We show that, under certain restrictions on the underlying metric measure space, fractional maximal operators improve the Sobolev regularity of functions and map functions in Campanato spaces to Hölder continuous functions. We also give an example of a space where fractional maximal function of a Lipschitz function fails to be continuous.

Given an equibounded (₀)-semigroup of linear operators with generator A on a Banach space X, a functional calculus, due to L. Schwartz, is briefly sketched to explain fractional powers of A. Then the (modified) K-functional with respect to $(X,D\left({(-A)}^{\alpha }\right))$, α > 0, is characterized via the associated resolvent R(λ;A). Under the assumption that the resolvent satisfies a Nikolskii type inequality, ${\left|\right|\lambda R(\lambda ;A)f\left|\right|}_Y{\le c\phi (1/\lambda )\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_X$, for a suitable Banach space Y, an Ulyanov inequality is derived. This will be of interest if one has good control...

We study the notion of fractional $L^p$-differentiability of order $s\in (0,1)$ along vector fields satisfying the Hörmander condition on ${ℝ}^n$. We prove a modified version of the celebrated structure theorem for the Carnot-Carathéodory balls originally due to Nagel, Stein and Wainger. This result enables us to demonstrate that different $W^{s,p}$-norms are equivalent. We also prove a local embedding $W^{1,p}\subset W^{s,q}$, where q is a suitable exponent greater than p.

Let K be a compact Hausdorff space, $C_p\left(K\right)$ the space of continuous functions on K endowed with the pointwise convergence topology, D ⊂ K a dense subset and $t_p\left(D\right)$ the topology in C(K) of pointwise convergence on D. It is proved that when $C_p\left(K\right)$ is Lindelöf the $t_p\left(D\right)$-compact subsets of C(K) are fragmented by the supremum norm of C(K). As a consequence we obtain some Namioka type results and apply them to prove that if K is separable and $C_p\left(K\right)$ is Lindelöf, then K is metrizable if, and only if, there is a countable and dense...

Recent work has studied the fragmentability and σ-fragmentability properties of Banach spaces. Here examples are given that justify the definitions that have been used. The fragmentability and σ-fragmentability properties of the spaces ${\ell }^{\infty }$ and ${\ell }_c^{\infty }\left(\Gamma \right)$, with Γ uncountable, are determined.

We prove that if a Banach space X admits a Lipschitz β-smooth bump function, then (X ∗ , weak ∗ ) is fragmented by a metric, generating a topology, which is stronger than the τβ -topology. We also use this to prove that if X ∗ admits a Lipschitz Gateaux-smooth bump function, then X is sigma-fragmentable.

The purpose of this note is two-fold: firstly, to give a new and interesting result concerning separate and joint continuity, and secondly, to give a stream-lined (and self-contained) proof of the fact that "tame" CHART groups are topological groups.

We construct wavelet-type frames associated with the expansive matrix dilation on the Anisotropic Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. We also show the a.e. convergence of the frame expansion which includes multi-wavelet expansion as a special case.