If $P$ is the Hardy averaging operator - or some of its generalizations, then weighted modular inequalities of the form u (Pf) Cv (f) are established for a general class of functions $\phi$. Modular inequalities for the two- and higher dimensional Hardy averaging operator are also given.

We prove the existence of the least positive eigenvalue with a corresponding nonnegative eigenfunction of the quasilinear eigenvalue problem $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill -div\left(a(x,u)\right|{|}^{p-2}\nabla u)=& {\lambda b(x,u)\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u\text{in}\Omega ,u=\hfill & \hfill 0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,\end{array}$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain, $p>1$ is a real number and $a(x,u)$, $b(x,u)$ satisfy appropriate growth conditions. Moreover, the coefficient $a(x,u)$ contains a degeneration or a singularity. We work in a suitable weighted Sobolev space and prove the boundedness of the eigenfunction in $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$. The main tool is the investigation of the associated homogeneous eigenvalue problem...

Let ${\lambda }_1\left(Q\right)$ be the first eigenvalue of the Sturm-Liouville problem $$y^{\text{'}\text{'}}-Q\left(x\right)y+\lambda y=0,y\left(0\right)=y\left(1\right)=0,0<x<1.$$ We give some estimates for $m_{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma }={inf}_{Q\in T_{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma }}{\lambda }_1\left(Q\right)$ and $M_{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma }={sup}_{Q\in T_{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma }}{\lambda }_1\left(Q\right)$, where $T_{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma }$ is the set of real-valued measurable on $\left[0,1\right]$ $x^{\alpha }{(1-x)}^{\beta }$-weighted $L_{\gamma }$-functions $Q$ with non-negative values such that ${\int }_0^1{x}^{\alpha }{(1-x)}^{\beta }{Q}^{\gamma }\left(x\right)\mathrm{d}x=1$ $(\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma \in ℝ,\gamma \ne 0)$.

The paper is devoted to the estimate u(x,k)Kk{capp,w(F)pw(B(x,))} 1p-1, $2p<n$ for a solution of a degenerate nonlinear elliptic equation in a domain $B(x_0,1)\setminus F$, $F\subset B(x_0,d)=\{x\in {ℝ}^n|x_0-x|<d\}$, $d<\frac{1}{2}$, under the boundary-value conditions $u(x,k)=k$ for $x\in \partial F$, $u(x,k)=0$ for $x\in \partial B(x_0,1)$ and where $0<\rho \le dist(x,F)$, $w\left(x\right)$ is a weighted function from some Muckenhoupt class, and $ca{p}_{p,w}\left(F\right)$, $w\left(B\right(x,\rho \left)\right)$ are weighted capacity and measure of the corresponding sets.