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.

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.

The paper deals with quarkonial decompositions and entropy numbers in weighted function spaces on hyperbolic manifolds. We use these results to develop a spectral theory of related Schrödinger operators in these hyperbolic worlds.

It is well known that any function algebra has an essential set. In this note we define an essential set for an arbitrary function space (not necessarily algebra) and prove that any function space has an essential set.

Function spaces of type Bspq and Fspq cover as special cases classical and fractional Sobolev spaces, classical Besov spaces, Hölder-Zygmund spaces and inhomogeneous Hardy spaces. In the last 2 or 3 decades they haven been studied preferably on Rn and in smooth bounded domains in Rn including numerous applications to pseudodifferential operators, elliptic boundary value problems etc. To a lesser extent spaces of this type have been considered in Lipschitz domains. But in recent times there is a...

Nikolskii spaces were defined by way of translations on ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ and by way of coordinate maps on a differentiable manifold. In this paper we prove that, for functions with compact support in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, we get an equivalent definition if we replace translations by all isometries of ${\mathbb{R}}^n$. This result seems to justify a definition of Nikolskii type function spaces on riemannian manifolds by means of a transitive group of isometries (provided that one exists). By approximation theorems, we prove that - for homogeneous...

We consider two types of Besov spaces on the closed snowflake, defined by traces and with the help of the homeomorphic map from the interval [0,3]. We compare these spaces and characterize them in terms of Daubechies wavelets.

We introduce a sort of "local" Morrey spaces and show an existence and uniqueness theorem for the Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains for linear second order elliptic partial differential equations with principal coefficients "close" to functions having derivatives in such spaces.

The distributional $k$-dimensional Jacobian of a map $u$ in the Sobolev space $W^{1,k-1}$ which takes values in the sphere $S^{k-1}$ can be viewed as the boundary of a rectifiable current of codimension $k$ carried by (part of) the singularity of $u$ which is topologically relevant. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the range of the Jacobian operator; in particular, we show that any boundary $M$ of codimension $k$ can be realized as Jacobian of a Sobolev map valued in $S^{k-1}$. In case $M$ is polyhedral, the map we construct...

Let ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of non-decreasing functions from $[0,+\infty )$ into $[0,+\infty )$. Under some suitable hypotheses of ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, we will prove that if $g\in L^p\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, $1<p<+\infty$, satisfies ${lim\; inf}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy<+\infty$, then $g\in W^{1,p}\left({ℝ}^N\right)$ and moreover ${lim}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy=K_{N,p}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\left|\nabla g\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx$, where $K_{N,p}$ is a positive constant depending only on $N$ and $p$. This extends some results in J. Bourgain and H-M. Nguyen [A new characterization of Sobolev spaces, C. R. Acad Sci. Paris, Ser. I 343 (2006) 75-80] and H-M. Nguyen [Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces, J. Funct. Anal. 237 (2006) 689-720]. We also present some partial results...

We obtain interpolation inequalities for derivatives: $\int M_{q,\alpha }\left(\right|\nabla f\left(x\right)\left|\right)dx\le C[\int M_{p,\beta }\left(\Phi ₁\right(x,\left|f\right|,|{\nabla }^{\left(2\right)}f\left|\right))dx+\int M_{r,\gamma }\left(\Phi ₂\right(x,\left|f\right|,|{\nabla }^{\left(2\right)}f\left|\right)\left)dx\right]$, and their counterparts expressed in Orlicz norms: ||∇f||²(q,α) ≤ C||Φ₁(x,|f|,|∇(2)f|)||(p,β) ||Φ₂(x,|f|,|∇(2)f|)||(r,γ)$,$where ${\left|\right|·\left|\right|}_{(s,\kappa )}$ is the Orlicz norm relative to the function $M_{s,\kappa }\left(t\right)=t^s{\left(ln(2+t)\right)}^{\kappa }$. The parameters p,q,r,α,β,γ and the Carathéodory functions Φ₁,Φ₂ are supposed to satisfy certain consistency conditions. Some of the classical Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities follow as a special case. Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities in logarithmic spaces with higher...

We derive inequalities of Gagliardo-Nirenberg type in weighted Orlicz spaces on ℝⁿ, for maximal functions of derivatives and for the derivatives themselves. This is done by an application of pointwise interpolation inequalities obtained previously by the first author and of Muckenhoupt-Bloom-Kerman-type theorems for maximal functions.

We prove asymptotic formulas for the behavior of Gelfand and Kolmogorov numbers of Sobolev embeddings between Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces of radial distributions. Our method works also for Weyl numbers.