Based on the theory of variable exponent spaces, we study the regularity of local minimizers for a class of functionals with variable growth and discontinuous coefficients. Under suitable assumptions, we obtain local Hölder continuity of minimizers.

In this paper we prove that a Gaussian white noise on the d-dimensional torus has paths in the Besov spaces $B_{p,\infty }^{-d/2}{(}^d)$ with p ∈ [1,∞). This result is shown to be optimal in several ways. We also show that Gaussian white noise on the d-dimensional torus has paths in the Fourier-Besov space $b{̂}_{p,\infty }^{-d/p}{(}^d)$. This is shown to be optimal as well.

In this paper, the authors introduce a kind of local Hardy spaces in Rn associated with the local Herz spaces. Then the authors investigate the regularity in these local Hardy spaces of some nonlinear quantities on superharmonic functions on R2. The main results of the authors extend the corresponding results of Evans and Müller in a recent paper.

We prove that the exit times of diffusion processes from a bounded open set Ω almost surely belong to the Besov space $B_{p,q}^{\alpha }\left(\Omega \right)$ provided that pα < 1 and 1 ≤ q < ∞.

In this paper we consider the regularity problem for the commutators $\left(\right[b,R_k]{)}_{1\le k\le n}$ where $b$ is a locally integrable function and $(R_j{)}_{1\le j\le n}$ are the Riesz transforms in the $n$-dimensional euclidean space ${ℝ}^n$. More precisely, we prove that these commutators $\left(\right[b,R_k]{)}_{1\le k\le n}$ are bounded from $L^p$ into the Besov space ${\dot{B}}_p^{s,p}$ for $1\&lt;p\&lt;+\infty$ and $0\&lt;s\&lt;1$ if and only if $b$ is in the $BMO$-Triebel-Lizorkin space ${\dot{F}}_{\infty }^{s,p}$. The reduction of our result to the case $p=2$ gives in particular that the commutators $\left(\right[b,R_k]{)}_{1\le k\le n}$ are bounded form $L^2$ into the Sobolev space ${\dot{H}}^s$ if and only if $b$ is in the $BMO$-Sobolev...

For s>0, we consider bounded linear operators from $D\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ into $D^{\text{'}}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ whose kernels K satisfy the conditions $|{\partial }_x^{\gamma }K(x,y)|\le C_{\gamma }{|x-y|}^{-n+s-\left|\gamma \right|}$ for x≠y, |γ|≤ [s]+1, $|{\nabla }_y{\partial }_x^{\gamma }K(x,y)|\le C_{\gamma }{|x-y|}^{-n+s-\left|\gamma \right|-1}$ for |γ|=[s], x≠y. We establish a new criterion for the boundedness of these operators from $L^2\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ into the homogeneous Sobolev space ${Ḣ}^s\left({ℝ}^n\right)$. This is an extension of the well-known T(1) Theorem due to David and Journé. Our arguments make use of the function T(1) and the BMO-Sobolev space. We give some applications to the Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces as well as some other potential...

In this paper, we consider a Borel measurable function on the space of $m\times n$ matrices $f:M^{m\times n}\to \overline{ℝ}$ taking the value $+\infty$, such that its rank-one-convex envelope $Rf$ is finite and satisfies for some fixed $p>1$: $$-c_0\le Rf\left(F\right)\le {c(1+\parallel F\parallel }^p)\text{for}\text{all}F\in M^{m\times n},$$ where $c,c_0>0$. Let $Ø$ be a given regular bounded open domain of ${ℝ}^n$. We define on $W^{1,p}(Ø;{ℝ}^m)$ the functional $$I\left(u\right)={\int }_{Ø}f\left(\nabla u\left(x\right)\right)dx.$$ Then, under some technical restrictions on $f$, we show that the relaxed functional $\overline{I}$ for the weak topology of $W^{1,p}(Ø;{ℝ}^m)$ has the integral representation: $$\overline{I}\left(u\right)={\int }_{Ø}Q\left[Rf\right]\left(\nabla u\left(x\right)\right)dx,$$ where for a given function $g$, $Qg$ denotes its quasiconvex...

Multidimensional vectorial non-quasiconvex variational problems are relaxed by means of a generalized-Young-functional technique. Selective first-order optimality conditions, having the form of an Euler-Weiestrass condition involving minors, are formulated in a special, rather a model case when the potential has a polyconvex quasiconvexification.

For a function $f\in L_{loc}^p\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ the notion of p-mean variation of order 1, ${₁}^p(f,ℝⁿ)$ is defined. It generalizes the concept of F. Riesz variation of functions on the real line ℝ¹ to ℝⁿ, n > 1. The characterisation of the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ in terms of ${₁}^p(f,ℝⁿ)$ is directly related to the characterisation of $W^{1,p}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ by Lipschitz type pointwise inequalities of Bojarski, Hajłasz and Strzelecki and to the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu approach.

We present several continuous embeddings of the critical Besov space $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$. We first establish a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type estimate ${\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_{q,w_r}^{0,\nu }}\le Cₙ{(1/(n-r))}^{1/q+1/\nu -1/\rho }{(q/r)}^{1/\nu -1/\rho }{\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_p^{0,\rho }}^{(n-r)p/nq}{\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_p^{n/p,\rho }}^{1-(n-r)p/nq}$, for 1 < p ≤ q < ∞, 1 ≤ ν < ρ ≤ ∞ and the weight function $w_r\left(x\right)=1/{\left(\right|x|}^r)$ with 0 < r < n. Next, we prove the corresponding Trudinger type estimate, and obtain it in terms of the embedding $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)\hookrightarrow B_{\Phi ₀,w_r}^{0,\nu }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$, where the function Φ₀ of the weighted Besov-Orlicz space $B_{\Phi ₀,w_r}^{0,\nu }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ is a Young function of the exponential type. Another point of interest is to embed $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ into the weighted Besov space $B_{p,wₙ}^{0,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ with...