The aim of this note is to indicate how inequalities concerning the integral of ${\left|\nabla u\right|}^2$ on the subsets where |u(x)| is greater than k ($k\in I{R}^{+}$) can be used in order to prove summability properties of u (joint work with Daniela Giachetti). This method was introduced by Ennio De Giorgi and Guido Stampacchia for the study of the regularity of the solutions of Dirichlet problems. In some joint works with Thierry Gallouet, inequalities concerning the integral of ${\left|\nabla u\right|}^2$ on the subsets where |u(x)| is less...

In this paper we prove a regularity result for very weak solutions of equations of the type $-divA(x,u,Du)=B(x,u,Du)$, where $A$, $B$ grow in the gradient like $t^{p-1}$ and $B(x,u,Du)$ is not in divergence form. Namely we prove that a very weak solution $u\in W^{1,r}$ of our equation belongs to $W^{1,p}$. We also prove global higher integrability for a very weak solution for the Dirichlet problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-divA(x,u,Du)=B(x,u,Du)\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,u-u_o\in W^{1,r}(\Omega ,{ℝ}^m).\hfill \end{array}\right.$$

A priori estimates and strong solvability results in Sobolev space $W^{2,p}\left(\Omega \right)$, $1<p<\infty$ are proved for the regular oblique derivative problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\sum _{i,j=1}^n{a}^{ij}\left(x\right)\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x_i\partial x_j}=f\left(x\right)\text{a.e.}\Omega \hfill \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial \ell }+\sigma \left(x\right)u=\varphi \left(x\right)\text{on}\partial \Omega \hfill \end{array}\right.$$ when the principal coefficients $a^{ij}$ are $VMO\cap L^{\infty }$ functions.

Given a space $X$, its $G_{\delta }$-subsets form a basis of a new space $X_{\omega }$, called the $G_{\delta }$-modification of $X$. We study how the assumption that the $G_{\delta }$-modification $X_{\omega }$ is homogeneous influences properties of $X$. If $X$ is first countable, then $X_{\omega }$ is discrete and, hence, homogeneous. Thus, $X_{\omega }$ is much more often homogeneous than $X$ itself. We prove that if $X$ is a compact Hausdorff space of countable tightness such that the $G_{\delta }$-modification of $X$ is homogeneous, then the weight $w\left(X\right)$ of $X$ does not exceed $2^{\omega }$ (Theorem 1)....

Let $D$ be a nonempty compact subset of a Banach space $X$ and denote by $S\left(X\right)$ the family of all nonempty bounded closed convex subsets of $X$. We endow $S\left(X\right)$ with the Hausdorff metric and show that there exists a set $ℱ\subset S\left(X\right)$ such that its complement $S\left(X\right)\setminus ℱ$ is $\sigma$-porous and such that for each $A\in ℱ$ and each $\tilde{x}\in D$, the set of solutions of the best approximation problem $\parallel \tilde{x}-z\parallel \to min$, $z\in A$, is nonempty and compact, and each minimizing sequence has a convergent subsequence.