Let $\Omega$ be a bounded open subset of ${ℝ}^n$, let $X=(x,t)$ be a point of ${ℝ}^n\times {ℝ}^N$. In the cylinder $Q=\Omega \times (-T,0)$, $T>0$, we deduce the local differentiability result $$u\in L^2(-a,0,H^2(B\left(\sigma \right),{ℝ}^N))\cap H^1(-a,0,L^2(B\left(\sigma \right),{ℝ}^N))$$ for the solutions $u$ of the class $L^q(-T,0,H^{1,q}(\Omega ,{ℝ}^N))\cap C^{0,\lambda }(\overline{Q},{ℝ}^N)$ ($0<\lambda <1$, $N$ integer $\ge 1$) of the nonlinear parabolic system $$-\sum _{i=1}^n{D}_i{a}^i(X,u,Du)+{\displaystyle \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}}=B^0(X,u,Du)$$ with quadratic growth and nonlinearity $q\ge 2$. This result had been obtained making use of the interpolation theory and an imbedding theorem of Gagliardo-Nirenberg type for functions $u$ belonging to $W^{1,q}\cap C^{0,\lambda }$.

We show a locally uniform bound for global nonnegative solutions of the system $u_t=\Delta u+uv-bu$, $v_t=\Delta v+au$ in $(0,+\infty )\times \Omega$, $u=v=0$ on $(0,+\infty )\times \partial \Omega$, where $a>0$, $b\ge 0$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^n$, $n\le 2$. In particular, the trajectories starting on the boundary of the domain of attraction of the zero solution are global and bounded.

In this paper we study integral operators of the form $$Tf\left(x\right)=\int |x-a_1{y|}^{-{\alpha }_1}\cdots {|x-a_{m}y|}^{-{\alpha }_m}f\left(y\right)\mathrm{d}y,$$ ${\alpha }_1+\cdots +{\alpha }_m=n$. We obtain the $L^p\left(w\right)$ boundedness for them, and a weighted $(1,1)$ inequality for weights $w$ in $A_p$ satisfying that there exists $c\ge 1$ such that $w\left(a_{i}x\right)\le cw\left(x\right)$ for a.e. $x\in {ℝ}^n$, $1\le i\le m$. Moreover, we prove ${\parallel Tf\parallel }_{\mathrm{B}MO}\le c{\parallel f\parallel }_{\infty }$ for a wide family of functions $f\in L^{\infty }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$.

If $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ is a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary $\partial \Omega$ and $\Gamma$ is an open subset of $\partial \Omega$, we prove that the following inequality $${\left({\int }_{\Omega }{\left|A\left(x\right)\nabla u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx\right)}^{1/p}+{\left({\int }_{\Gamma }{\left|u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}d{\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}\left(x\right)\right)}^{1/p}\ge c{\parallel u\parallel }_{W^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)}$$ holds for all $u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega ;{ℝ}^m)$ and $1<p<\infty$, where $${\left(A\left(x\right)\nabla u\left(x\right)\right)}_k=\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=1}^n{a}_k^{ij}\left(x\right)\frac{\partial u_i}{\partial x_j}\left(x\right)(k=1,2,...,r;r\ge m)$$ defines an elliptic differential operator of first order with continuous coefficients on $\overline{\Omega }$. As a special case we obtain $${\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\left(x\right)F\left(x\right)+{\left(\nabla u\left(x\right)F\left(x\right)\right)}^T\right|}^{p}dx\ge c{\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx,(*)$$ for all $u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega ;{ℝ}^n)$ vanishing on $\Gamma$, where $F:\overline{\Omega }\to M^{n\times n}\left(ℝ\right)$ is a continuous mapping with $detF\left(x\right)\ge \mu >0$. Next we show that $(*)$ is not valid if $n\ge 3$, $F\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ and $detF\left(x\right)=1$, but does hold if $p=2$, $\Gamma =\partial \Omega$ and $F\left(x\right)$ is symmetric and positive definite in $\Omega$.