We present some results on the mathematical treatment of a global two-dimensional diffusive climate model. The model is based on a long time averaged energy balance and leads to a nonlinear parabolic equation for the averaged surface temperature. The spatial domain is a compact two-dimensional Riemannian manifold without boundary simulating the Earth. We prove the existence of bounded weak solutions via a fixed point argument. Although, the uniqueness of solutions may fail, in general, we give a...

In this paper we consider a nonlinear periodic system driven by the vector ordinary $p$-Laplacian and having a nonsmooth locally Lipschitz potential, which is positively homogeneous. Using a variational approach which exploits the homogeneity of the potential, we establish the existence of a nonconstant solution.

We consider the Einstein deformations of the reducible rank two symmetric spaces of noncompact type. If $M$ is the product of any two real, complex, quaternionic or octonionic hyperbolic spaces, we prove that the family of nearby Einstein metrics is parametrized by certain new geometric structures on the Furstenberg boundary of $M$.

Let ℳ be a type II₁ von Neumann algebra, τ a trace in ℳ, and L²(ℳ,τ) the GNS Hilbert space of τ. If L²(ℳ,τ)₊ is the completion of the set ${ℳ}_{sa}$ of selfadjoint elements, then each element ξ ∈ L²(ℳ,τ)₊ gives rise to a selfadjoint unbounded operator $L_{\xi }$ on L²(ℳ,τ). In this note we show that the exponential exp: L²(ℳ,τ)₊ → L²(ℳ,τ), $exp\left(\xi \right)=e^{i{L}_{\xi }}$, is continuous but not differentiable. The same holds for the Cayley transform $C\left(\xi \right)=(L_{\xi }-i){(L_{\xi }+i)}^{-1}$. We also show that the unitary group $U_{ℳ}\subset L²(ℳ,\tau )$ with the strong operator topology is not an embedded submanifold...

The first motivation for this note is to obtain a general version of the following result: let E be a Banach space and f : E → R be a differentiable function, bounded below and satisfying the Palais-Smale condition; then, f is coercive, i.e., f(x) goes to infinity as ||x|| goes to infinity. In recent years, many variants and extensions of this result appeared, see [3], [5], [6], [9], [14], [18], [19] and the references therein. A general result of this type was given in [3, Theorem 5.1] for a lower...

We show that every Lipschitz map defined on an open subset of the Banach space C(K), where K is a scattered compactum, with values in a Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property, has a point of Fréchet differentiability. This is a strengthening of the result of Lindenstrauss and Preiss who proved that for countable compacta. As a consequence of the above and a result of Arvanitakis we prove that Lipschitz functions on certain function spaces are Gâteaux differentiable.

It is proven that every flat connection or covariant derivative ∇ on a left A-module M (with respect to the universal differential calculus) induces a right A-module structure on M so that ∇ is a bimodule connection on M or M is a flat differentiable bimodule. Similarly a flat hom-connection on a right A-module M induces a compatible left A-action.

It is shown that every connected global Nash subvariety of ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ is Nash isomorphic to a connected component of an algebraic variety that, in the compact case, can be chosen with only two connected components arbitrarily near each other. Some examples which state the limits of the given results and of the used tools are provided.

Let $f$ be a Lipschitz function on a superreflexive Banach space $X$. We prove that then the set of points of $X$ at which $f$ has no intermediate derivative is not only a first category set (which was proved by M. Fabian and D. Preiss for much more general spaces $X$), but it is even $\sigma$-porous in a rather strong sense. In fact, we prove the result even for a stronger notion of uniform intermediate derivative which was defined by J.R. Giles and S. Sciffer.

An $n$-ary Poisson bracket (or generalized Poisson bracket) on the manifold $M$ is a skew-symmetric $n$-linear bracket $\{,\cdots ,\}$ of functions which is a derivation in each argument and satisfies the generalized Jacobi identity of order $n$, i.e., $$\sum _{\sigma \in S_{2n-1}}(sign\sigma )\{\{f_{{\sigma }_1},\cdots ,f_{{\sigma }_n}\},f_{{\sigma }_{n+1}},\cdots ,f_{{\sigma }_{2n-1}}\}=0,$$$S_{2n...}$