We prove unique continuation for solutions of the inequality $\left|\Delta u\right(x\left)\right|\le V\left(x\right)\left|\nabla u\right(x\left)\right|$, $x\in \Omega$ a connected set contained in ${\mathbf{R}}^n$ and $V$ is in the Morrey spaces $F^{\alpha ,p}$, with $p\ge (n-2)/2(1-\alpha )$ and $\alpha \<1$. These spaces include $L^q$ for $q\ge (3n-2)/2$ (see [H], [BKRS]). If $p=(n-2)/2(1-\alpha )$, the extra assumption of $V$ being small enough is needed.

Let L be the full laplacian on the Heisenberg group ${ℍ}^n$ of arbitrary dimension n. Then for $f\in L^2\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ such that ${(I-L)}^{s/2}f\in L^2\left({ℍ}^n\right)$, s > 3/4, for a $\varphi \in C_c\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ we have ${ʃ}_{{ℍ}^n}\left|\varphi \left(x\right)\right|su{p}_{0<t\le 1}{\left|e^{(\surd -1)tL}f\left(x\right)\right|}^{2}dx\le C_{\varphi }\parallel f{\parallel }_{W^s}^2$. On the other hand, the above maximal estimate fails for s < 1/4. If Δ is the sublaplacian on the Heisenberg group ${ℍ}^n$, then for every s < 1 there exists a sequence $f_n\in L^2\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ and $C_n>0$ such that ${(I-L)}^{s/2}{f}_n\in L^2\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ and for a $\varphi \in C_c\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ we have ${ʃ}_{{ℍ}^n}\left|\varphi \left(x\right)\right|su{p}_{0<t\le 1}{\left|e^{(\surd -1)t\Delta }{f}_n\left(x\right)\right|}^{2}dx\ge C_n\parallel f_n{\parallel }_{W^s}^2,li{m}_{n\to \infty }{C}_n=+\infty$.

We show that the differential inequality $\left|\Delta u\right|\le v\left|u\right|$ has the unique continuation property relative to the Sobolev space $H_{loc}^{2,1}\left(\Omega \right)$, $\Omega \subset R^n$, $n\le 3$, if $v$ satisfies the condition $$(K_n^{\mathrm{loc}})\underset{r\to 0}{lim}\underset{x\in K}{sup}{\int }_{|x-y|\&lt;r}|x-y{|}^{2-n}v\left(y\right)dy=0$$ for all compact $K\subset \Omega$, where if $n=2$, we replace $|x-y{|}^{2-n}$ by $-log|x-y|$. This resolves a conjecture of B. Simon on unique continuation for Schrödinger operators, $H=-\Delta +v$, in the case $n\le 3$. The proof uses Carleman’s approach together with the following pointwise inequality valid for all $N=0,1,2,...$ and any $u\in H_c^{2,1}({\mathbf{R}}^3-\left\{0\right\}),$ $$\frac{\left|u\right(x\left)\right|}{|x{|}^N}\le C{\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^3}|x-y{|}^{-1}\frac{\left|\Delta u\right(y\left)\right|}{|y{|}^N}dy\text{for}\text{a.e.}x\text{in}{\mathbf{R}}^3.$$

Let L = -Δ + V be a Schrödinger operator in ${ℝ}^d$ and $H{¹}_L\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ be the Hardy type space associated to L. We investigate the bilinear operators T⁺ and T¯ defined by $T^{\pm }(f,g)\left(x\right)=\left(T₁f\right)\left(x\right)\left(T₂g\right)\left(x\right)\pm \left(T₂f\right)\left(x\right)\left(T₁g\right)\left(x\right)$, where T₁ and T₂ are Calderón-Zygmund operators related to L. Under some general conditions, we prove that either T⁺ or T¯ is bounded from $L^p\left({ℝ}^d\right)\times L^q\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ to $H{¹}_L\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ for 1 < p,q < ∞ with 1/p + 1/q = 1. Several examples satisfying these conditions are given. We also give a counterexample for which the classical Hardy space estimate fails. ...

Hörmander’s famous Fourier multiplier theorem ensures the $L_p$-boundedness of $F(-{\Delta }_{ℝ}D)$ whenever $F\in \mathscr{H}\left(s\right)$ for some $s\&gt;\frac{D}{2}$, where we denote by $\mathscr{H}\left(s\right)$ the set of functions satisfying the Hörmander condition for $s$ derivatives. Spectral multiplier theorems are extensions of this result to more general operators $A\ge 0$ and yield the $L_p$-boundedness of $F\left(A\right)$ provided $F\in \mathscr{H}\left(s\right)$ for some $s$ sufficiently large. The harmonic oscillator $A=-{\Delta }_{ℝ}+x^2$ shows that in general $s\&gt;\frac{D}{2}$ is not sufficient even if $A$ has a heat kernel satisfying gaussian estimates. In...

We characterize geometric properties of Banach spaces in terms of boundedness of square functions associated to general Schrödinger operators of the form ℒ = -Δ + V, where the nonnegative potential V satisfies a reverse Hölder inequality. The main idea is to sharpen the well known localization method introduced by Z. Shen. Our results can be regarded as alternative proofs of the boundedness in H¹, $L^p$ and BMO of classical ℒ-square functions.

Let Π₂ be the operator ideal of all absolutely 2-summing operators and let $I_m$ be the identity map of the m-dimensional linear space. We first establish upper estimates for some mixing norms of $I_m$. Employing these estimates, we study the embedding operators between Besov function spaces as mixing operators. The result obtained is applied to give sufficient conditions under which certain kinds of integral operators, acting on a Besov function space, belong to Π₂; in this context, we also...

We prove that for symbols in the modulation spaces ${ℳ}^{p,q}$, p ≥ q, the associated multilinear pseudodifferential operators are bounded on products of appropriate modulation spaces. In particular, the symbols we study here are defined without any reference to smoothness, but rather in terms of their time-frequency behavior.

We consider the general Schrödinger operator $L=div\left(A\left(x\right){\nabla }_x\right)-\mu$ on a half-space in ℝⁿ, n ≥ 3. We prove that the L-Green function G exists and is comparable to the Laplace-Green function $G_{\Delta }$ provided that μ is in some class of signed Radon measures. The result extends the one proved on the half-plane in [9] and covers the case of Schrödinger operators with potentials in the Kato class at infinity $K{ₙ}^{\infty }$ considered by Zhao and Pinchover. As an application we study the cone ${}_L\left(ℝⁿ₊\right)$ of all positive L-solutions continuously...

Suppose $\Phi$ is a nonnegative, locally integrable, radial function on ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, which is nonincreasing in $\left|x\right|$. Set $\left(Tf\right)\left(x\right)={\int }_{R^n}\Phi (x-y)f\left(y\right)dy$ when $f\ge 0$ and $x\in {\mathbf{R}}^n$. Given $1\&lt;p\&lt;\infty$ and $v\ge 0$, we show there exists $C\&gt;0$ so that ${\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^n}\left(Tf\right)(x{)}^{p}v\left(x\right)dx\le C{\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^n}f(x{)}^{p}dx$ for all $f\ge 0$, if and only if $C^{\text{'}}\&gt;0$ exists with ${\int }_{Q}T(x_{Q}v\left)\right(x{)}^{p^{\text{'}}}dx\le C^{\text{'}}{\int }_{Q}v\left(x\right)dx\&lt;\infty$ for all dyadic cubes Q, where $p^{\text{'}}=p/(p-1)$. This result is used to refine recent estimates of C.L. Fefferman and D.H. Phong on the distribution of eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators.