Let $A_1,\cdots ,A_m$ be $n\times n$ real matrices such that for each $1\le i\le m,$ $A_i$ is invertible and $A_i-A_j$ is invertible for $i\ne j$. In this paper we study integral operators of the form $$Tf\left(x\right)=\int k_1(x-A_{1}y)k_2(x-A_{2}y)\cdots k_m(x-A_{m}y)f\left(y\right)\mathrm{d}y,$$ $k_i\left(y\right)={\sum }_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}{2}^{jn/q_i}{\varphi }_{i,j}\left(2^{j}y\right)$, $1\le q_i<\infty ,$ $1/q_1+1/q_2+\cdots +1/q_m=1-r,$ $0\le r<1,$ and ${\varphi }_{i,j}$ satisfying suitable regularity conditions. We obtain the boundedness of $T:H^p\left({ℝ}^n\right)\to L^q\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ for $0<p<1/r$ and $1/q=1/p-r.$ We also show that we can not expect the $H^p$-$H^q$ boundedness of this kind of operators.

Let $\Lambda \subset {ℝ}^n\times {ℝ}^m$ and $k$ be a positive integer. Let $f:{ℝ}^n\to {ℝ}^m$ be a locally bounded map such that for each $(\xi ,\eta )\in \Lambda$, the derivatives $D_{\xi }^{j}f\left(x\right):=\frac{d^j}{d{t}^j}f(x+t\xi ){|}_{t=0}$, $j=1,2,\cdots k$, exist and are continuous. In order to conclude that any such map $f$ is necessarily of class $C^k$ it is necessary and sufficient that $\Lambda$ be not contained in the zero-set of a nonzero homogenous polynomial $\Phi (\xi ,\eta )$ which is linear in $\eta =({\eta }_1,{\eta }_2,\cdots ,{\eta }_m)$ and homogeneous of degree $k$ in $\xi =({\xi }_1,{\xi }_2,\cdots ,{\xi }_n)$. This generalizes a result of J. Boman for the case $k=1$. The statement and the proof of a theorem of Boman for the case $k=\infty$ is...

We consider the existence of positive solutions of the singular nonlinear semipositone problem of the form $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}-{\mathrm{div}\left(\right|x|}^{-\alpha p}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2}{\nabla u)=|x|}^{-(\alpha +1)p+\beta }\left(a{u}^{p-1}-f\left(u\right)-{\displaystyle \frac{c}{u^{\gamma }}}\right),x\in \Omega ,\hfill \\ u=0,x\in \partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain of ${ℝ}^N$ with $0\in \Omega$, $1<p<N$, $0\le \alpha <(N-p)/p$, $\gamma \in (0,1)$, and $a$, $\beta$, $c$ and $\lambda$ are positive parameters. Here $f:[0,\infty )\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. This model arises in the studies of population biology of one species with $u$ representing the concentration of the species. We discuss the existence of a positive solution when $f$ satisfies certain additional conditions. We use the method of sub-supersolutions...

Se il problema di minimo $({𝒫}_{\mathrm{\infty }})$ è il limite, in senso variazionale, di una successione di problemi di minimo con ostacoli del tipo $$\underset{u\ge {\psi }_h}{\min }{\int }_A\left[f_h(x,u,Du)+b(x,u)\right]𝑑x,$$ allora $({𝒫}_{\mathrm{\infty }})$ può essere scritto nella forma $$\underset{u}{\min }\left\{{\int }_A\left[f_{\mathrm{\infty }}(x,u,Du)+b(x,u)\right]𝑑x+{\int }_A{g}_{\mathrm{\infty }}(x,\tilde{u}(x))𝑑{\lambda }_{\mathrm{\infty }}(x)\right\}$$ dove $\tilde{u}$ è un conveniente rappresentante di $u$ e ${\lambda }_{\mathrm{\infty }}$ è una misura non negativa.