Let L be a strictly elliptic second order operator on a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ. Let u be a solution to $Lu=div\overrightarrow{f}$ in Ω, u = 0 on ∂Ω. Sufficient conditions on two measures, μ and ν defined on Ω, are established which imply that the $L^q(\Omega ,d\mu )$ norm of |∇u| is dominated by the $L^p(\Omega ,dv)$ norms of $div\overrightarrow{f}$ and $|\overrightarrow{f}|$. If we replace |∇u| by a local Hölder norm of u, the conditions on μ and ν can be significantly weaker.

CONTENTS1. Introduction.......................................................................52. Notation and auxiliary results............................................93. Statement of the problem (1.1)-(1.3)..............................204. The problem (3.14).........................................................225. Auxiliary results in $D_{\vartheta }$...............................................346. Existence of solutions of (3.14) in $H_{\mu }^k\left(D_{\vartheta }\right)$............417. Green function................................................................528....

In this review article we present an overview on some a priori estimates in $L^p$, $p>1$, recently obtained in the framework of the study of a certain kind of Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains. More precisely, we consider a linear uniformly elliptic second order differential operator in divergence form with bounded leading coeffcients and with lower order terms coefficients belonging to certain Morrey type spaces. Under suitable assumptions on the data, we first show two $L^p$-bounds, $p>2$, for...

We study continuity envelopes of function spaces $B_{p,q}^s(ℝⁿ,w)$ and $F_{p,q}^s(ℝⁿ,w)$ where the weight belongs to the Muckenhoupt class ₁. This essentially extends partial forerunners in [13, 14]. We also indicate some applications of these results.

We investigate isometric composition operators on the weighted Dirichlet space ${𝒟}_{\alpha }$ with standard weights ${(1-|z|}^2{)}^{\alpha }$, $\alpha >-1$. The main technique used comes from Martín and Vukotić who completely characterized the isometric composition operators on the classical Dirichlet space $𝒟$. We solve some of these but not in general. We also investigate the situation when ${𝒟}_{\alpha }$ is equipped with another equivalent norm.

We consider the problem div u = f in a bounded Lipschitz domain Ω, where f with ${\int }_{\Omega }f=0$ is given. It is shown that the solution u, constructed as in Bogovski’s approach in [1], fulfills estimates in the weighted Sobolev spaces $W_w^{k,q}\left(\Omega \right)$, where the weight function w is in the class of Muckenhoupt weights $A_q$.

Let $B_p$ be the Ariõ-Muckenhoupt weight class which controls the weighted $L^p$-norm inequalities for the Hardy operator on non-increasing functions. We replace the constant p by a function p(x) and examine the associated $L^{p\left(x\right)}$-norm inequalities of the Hardy operator.

By a sub-super solution argument, we study the existence of positive solutions for the system ⎧$-{\Delta }_{p}u=a₁\left(x\right)F₁(x,u,v)$ in Ω, ⎪$-{\Delta }_{q}v=a₂\left(x\right)F₂(x,u,v)$ in Ω, ⎨u,v > 0 in Ω, ⎩u = v = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$ with smooth boundary or $\Omega ={ℝ}^N$. A nonexistence result is obtained for radially symmetric solutions.

The finite element method for a strongly elliptic mixed boundary value problem is analyzed in the domain $\Omega$ whose boundary $\partial \Omega$ is formed by two circles ${\Gamma }_1$, ${\Gamma }_2$ with the same center $S_0$ and radii $R_1$, $R_2=R_1+\varrho$, where $\varrho \ll R_1$. On one circle the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and on the other one the nonhomogeneous Neumann boundary condition are prescribed. Both possibilities for $u=0$ are considered. The standard finite elements satisfying the minimum angle condition are in this case inconvenient; thus...

We study a general class of nonlinear elliptic problems associated with the differential inclusion $\beta \left(u\right)-div\left(a\right(x,Du)+F(u\left)\right)\ni f$ in Ω where $f\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$. The vector field a(·,·) is a Carathéodory function. Using truncation techniques and the generalized monotonicity method in function spaces we prove existence of renormalized solutions for general $L^{\infty }$-data.

Let $D_j$ be a bounded hyperconvex domain in ${ℂ}^{n_j}$ and set $D=D₁\times \cdots \times D_s$, j=1,...,s, s≥ 3. Also let ₙ be the symmetrized polydisc in ℂⁿ, n ≥ 3. We characterize those real-valued continuous functions defined on the boundary of D or ₙ which can be extended to the inside to a pluriharmonic function. As an application a complete characterization of the compliant functions is obtained.

We prove several optimal Moser–Trudinger and logarithmic Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequalities for systems in two dimensions. These include inequalities on the sphere $S^2$, on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^2$ and on all of ${ℝ}^2$. In some cases we also address the question of existence of minimizers.

We study the boundedness of the one-sided operator $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$ between the weighted spaces $L^p\left(M¯w\right)$ and $L^p\left(w\right)$ for every weight w. If λ = 2/p whenever 1 < p < 2, and in the case p = 1 for λ > 2, we prove the weak type of $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$. For every λ > 1 and p = 2, or λ > 2/p and 1 < p < 2, the boundedness of this operator is obtained. For p > 2 and λ > 1, we obtain the boundedness of $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$ from $L^p\left({\left(M¯\right)}^{[p/2]+1}w\right)$ to $L^p\left(w\right)$, where ${\left(M¯\right)}^k$ denotes the operator M¯ iterated k times.

The Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series, denoted by ${}^p$ (p ≥ 1), have been studied by Hedenmalm et al. (1997) when p = 2 and by Bayart (2002) in the general case. In this paper we study some $L^p$-generalizations of spaces of Dirichlet series, particularly two families of Bergman spaces, denoted ${}^p$ and ${ℬ}^p$. Each could appear as a “natural” way to generalize the classical case of the unit disk. We recover classical properties of spaces of analytic functions: boundedness of point evaluation, embeddings...

Our main purpose is to establish the existence of weak solutions of second order quasilinear elliptic systems ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{p}u+{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u=f_{1\lambda ₁}{\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u+2\alpha /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha -2}u{\left|v\right|}^{\beta }$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨ $-{\Delta }_{p}v+{\left|v\right|}^{p-2}v=f_{2\lambda ₂}{\left(x\right)\left|v\right|}^{q-2}v+2\beta /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha }{\left|v\right|}^{\beta -2}v$, x ∈ Ω, ⎩ u = v = 0, x∈ ∂Ω, where 1 < q < p < N and $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is an open bounded smooth domain. Here λ₁, λ₂, μ ≥ 0 and $f_{i{\lambda }_i}\left(x\right)={\lambda }_i{f}_{i+}\left(x\right)+f_{i-}\left(x\right)$ (i = 1,2) are sign-changing functions, where $f_{i\pm }\left(x\right)=max\pm f_i\left(x\right),0$, $g_{\mu }\left(x\right)=a\left(x\right)+\mu b\left(x\right)$, and ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ denotes the p-Laplace operator. We use variational methods.

We complete the different cases remaining in the estimation of the essential norm of a weighted composition operator acting between the Hardy spaces $H^p$ and $H^q$ for 1 ≤ p,q ≤ ∞. In particular we give some estimates for the cases 1 = p ≤ q ≤ ∞ and 1 ≤ q < p ≤ ∞.

We consider the operator $-d^2/d{r}^2-V$ in $L_2\left({ℝ}_{+}\right)$ with Dirichlet boundary condition at the origin. For the moments of its negative eigenvalues we prove the bound $\mathrm{tr}{(-d^2/d{r}^2-V)}_{-}^{\gamma }\le C_{\gamma ,\alpha }{\int }_{{ℝ}_{+}}{(V\left(r\right)-1/\left(4r^2\right))}_{+}^{\gamma +(1+\alpha )/2}{r}^{\alpha }dr$ for any $\alpha \in [0,1)$ and $\gamma \ge (1-\alpha )/2$. This includes a Lieb-Thirring inequality in the critical endpoint case.

Let $u$ be a weight on $(0,\infty )$. Assume that $u$ is continuous on $(0,\infty )$. Let the operator $S_u$ be given at measurable non-negative function $\varphi$ on $(0,\infty )$ by $$S_u\varphi \left(t\right)=\underset{0<\tau \le t}{sup}u\left(\tau \right)\varphi \left(\tau \right).$$ We characterize weights $v,w$ on $(0,\infty )$ for which there exists a positive constant $C$ such that the inequality $${\left({\int }_0^{\infty }{\left[S_u\varphi \left(t\right)\right]}^{q}w\left(t\right)dt\right)}^{\frac{1}{q}}\lesssim {\left({\int }_0^{\infty }{\left[\varphi \left(t\right)\right]}^{p}v\left(t\right)dt\right)}^{\frac{1}{p}}$$ holds for every $0<p,q<\infty$. Such inequalities have been used in the study of optimal Sobolev embeddings and boundedness of certain operators on classical Lorenz spaces.

We extend to the setting of Dirichlet series previous results of H. Bohr for Taylor series in one variable, themselves generalized by V. I. Paulsen, G. Popescu and D. Singh or extended to several variables by L. Aizenberg, R. P. Boas and D. Khavinson. We show in particular that, if $f\left(s\right)={\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }aₙn^{-s}$ with ${\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{\infty }:=su{p}_{\Re s>0}\left|f\left(s\right)\right|<\infty$, then ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\left|aₙ\right|n^{-2}{\le \left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{\infty }$ and even slightly better, and ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\left|aₙ\right|n^{-1/2}{\le C\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{\infty }$, C being an absolute constant.

Let $X={\sum }_{i=1}^k{a}_i{U}_i$, $Y={\sum }_{i=1}^k{b}_i{U}_i$, where the $U_i$ are independent random vectors, each uniformly distributed on the unit sphere in ℝⁿ, and $a_i,b_i$ are real constants. We prove that if $b{²}_i$ is majorized by $a{²}_i$ in the sense of Hardy-Littlewood-Pólya, and if Φ: ℝⁿ → ℝ is continuous and bisubharmonic, then EΦ(X) ≤ EΦ(Y). Consequences include most of the known sharp $L²-L^p$ Khinchin inequalities for sums of the form X. For radial Φ, bisubharmonicity is necessary as well as sufficient for the majorization inequality to always hold. Counterparts...

We extend the classical theorems of I. I. Privalov and A. Zygmund from single to multiple conjugate functions in terms of the multiplicative modulus of continuity. A remarkable corollary is that if a function f belongs to the multiplicative Lipschitz class $Lip(\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_N)$ for some $0<\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_N<1$ and its marginal functions satisfy $f(·,x₂,...,x_N)\in Lip\beta ₁,...,f(x₁,...,x_{N-1},·)\in Lip{\beta }_N$ for some $0<\beta ₁,...,{\beta }_N<1$ uniformly in the indicated variables $x_l$, 1 ≤ l ≤ N, then $f{̃}^{(\eta ₁,...,{\eta }_N)}\in Lip(\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_N)$ for each choice of $(\eta ₁,...,{\eta }_N)$ with ${\eta }_l=0$ or 1 for 1 ≤ l ≤ N.