We establish an explicit connection between the perimeter measure of an open set $E$ with $C^1$ boundary and the spherical Hausdorff measure $S^{Q-1}$ restricted to $\partial E$, when the ambient space is a stratified group endowed with a left invariant sub-Riemannian metric and $Q$ denotes the Hausdorff dimension of the group. Our formula implies that the perimeter measure of $E$ is less than or equal to $S^{Q-1}\left(\partial E\right)$ up to a dimensional factor. The validity of this estimate positively answers a conjecture raised by Danielli,...

Given a distribution $T$ on the sphere we define, in analogy to the work of Łojasiewicz, the value of $T$ at a point $\xi$ of the sphere and we show that if $T$ has the value $\tau$ at $\xi$, then the Fourier-Laplace series of $T$ at $\xi$ is Abel-summable to $\tau$.

We prove boundedness and continuity for solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the equation $$-\mathrm{div}\left(a(x,\nabla u)\right)=h(x,u)+\mu ,\text{in}\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N,$$ where the left-hand side is a Leray-Lions operator from $W_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ into $W^{-1,p^{\text{'}}}\left(\Omega \right)$ with $1<p<N$, $h(x,s)$ is a Carathéodory function which grows like ${\left|s\right|}^{p-1}$ and $\mu$ is a finite Radon measure. We prove that renormalized solutions, though not globally bounded, are Hölder-continuous far from the support of $\mu$.

In a cholesteric liquid crystal the director field $n(x,y,z)$ tends to form a right-angle helicoid around a twist axis in order to minimize the internal energy; however, a fixed alignment of the director field at the boundary (strong anchoring) can give rise to distorted configurations of the director field, as oblique helicoid, in order to save energy. The transition to this distorted configurations depend on the boundary conditions and on the geometry of the liquid crystal, and it is known...

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 consider the exclusion process in the one-dimensional discrete torus with $N$ points, where all the bonds have conductance one, except a finite number of slow bonds, with conductance $N^{-\beta }$, with $\beta \in [0,\infty )$. We prove that the time evolution of the empirical density of particles, in the diffusive scaling, has a distinct behavior according to the range of the parameter $\beta$. If $\beta \in [0,1)$, the hydrodynamic limit is given by the usual heat equation. If $\beta =1$, it is given by a parabolic equation involving an operator...

Suppose Δ̃ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the sphere $S^{d-1},{\Delta }_{\rho }^{k}f\left(x\right)={\Delta }_{\rho }{\Delta }_{\rho }^{k-1}f\left(x\right)$ and ${\Delta }_{\rho }f\left(x\right)=f\left(\rho x\right)-f\left(x\right)$ where ρ ∈ SO(d). Then ${\omega }^m{(f,t)}_{L_p\left(S^{d-1}\right)}\equiv sup\parallel {\Delta }_{\rho }^{m}f{\parallel }_{L_p\left(S^{d-1}\right)}:\rho \in SO\left(d\right),ma{x}_{x\in S^{d-1}}\rho x·x\ge cost$ and $K̃ₘ{(f,t^m)}_p\equiv inf\parallel f-g{\parallel }_{L_p\left(S^{d-1}\right)}+t^m\parallel {(-\Delta ̃)}^{m/2}g{\parallel }_{L_p\left(S^{d-1}\right)}:g\in \left({(-\Delta ̃)}^{m/2}\right)$ are equivalent for 1 < p < ∞. We note that for even m the relation was recently investigated by the second author. The equivalence yields an extension of the results on sharp Jackson inequalities on the sphere. A new strong converse inequality for $L_p\left(S^{d-1}\right)$ given in this paper plays a significant role in the proof.

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...

Let $K\subset {ℝ}^m$ ($m\ge 2$) be a compact set; assume that each ball centered on the boundary $B$ of $K$ meets $K$ in a set of positive Lebesgue measure. Let $C_0^{\left(1\right)}$ be the class of all continuously differentiable real-valued functions with compact support in ${ℝ}^m$ and denote by ${\sigma }_m$ the area of the unit sphere in ${ℝ}^m$. With each $\varphi \in C_0^{\left(1\right)}$ we associate the function $$W_K\varphi \left(z\right)=\frac{1}{{\sigma }_m}\underset{{ℝ}^m\setminus K}{\to }\int \mathrm{g}rad\varphi \left(x\right)·\frac{z-x}{{|z-x|}^m}x$$ of the variable $z\in K$ (which is continuous in $K$ and harmonic in $K\setminus B$). $W_K\varphi$ depends only on the restriction ${\varphi |}_B$ of $\varphi$ to the boundary $B$ of $K$. This gives rise to a linear operator $W_K$...

Let ${}_s$ be the family of open rectangles in the plane ℝ² with a side of angle s to the x-axis. We say that a set S of directions is an R-set if there exists a function f ∈ L¹(ℝ²) such that the basis ${}_s$ differentiates the integral of f if s ∉ S, and $D{̅}_{s}f\left(x\right)=limsu{p}_{diam\left(R\right)\to 0,x\in R{\in }_s}{\left|R\right|}^{-1}{\int }_{R}f=\infty$ almost everywhere if s ∈ S. If the condition $D{̅}_{s}f\left(x\right)=\infty$ holds on a set of positive measure (instead of a.e.) we say that S is a WR-set. It is proved that S is an R-set (resp. a WR-set) if and only if it is a $G_{\delta }$ (resp. a $G_{\delta \sigma }$).