We obtain interpolation inequalities for derivatives: $\int M_{q,\alpha }\left(\right|\nabla f\left(x\right)\left|\right)dx\le C[\int M_{p,\beta }\left(\Phi ₁\right(x,\left|f\right|,|{\nabla }^{\left(2\right)}f\left|\right))dx+\int M_{r,\gamma }\left(\Phi ₂\right(x,\left|f\right|,|{\nabla }^{\left(2\right)}f\left|\right)\left)dx\right]$, and their counterparts expressed in Orlicz norms: ||∇f||²(q,α) ≤ C||Φ₁(x,|f|,|∇(2)f|)||(p,β) ||Φ₂(x,|f|,|∇(2)f|)||(r,γ)$,$where ${\left|\right|·\left|\right|}_{(s,\kappa )}$ is the Orlicz norm relative to the function $M_{s,\kappa }\left(t\right)=t^s{\left(ln(2+t)\right)}^{\kappa }$. The parameters p,q,r,α,β,γ and the Carathéodory functions Φ₁,Φ₂ are supposed to satisfy certain consistency conditions. Some of the classical Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities follow as a special case. Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities in logarithmic spaces with higher...

This paper is concerned with the generalization of the finite element method via the use of non-polynomial enrichment functions. Several methods employ this general approach, e.g. the extended finite element method and the generalized finite element method. We review these approaches and interpret them in the more general framework of the partition of unity method. Here we focus on fundamental construction principles, approximation properties and stability of the respective numerical method. To...

This paper addresses the derivation of new second-kind Fredholm combined field integral equations for the Krylov iterative solution of tridimensional acoustic scattering problems by a smooth closed surface. These integral equations need the introduction of suitable tangential square-root operators to regularize the formulations. Existence and uniqueness occur for these formulations. They can be interpreted as generalizations of the well-known Brakhage-Werner [A. Brakhage and P. Werner, Arch....

Let $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$, be a bounded connected domain of the class $C^{1,\theta }$ for some $\theta \in (0,1]$. Applying the generalized Moser-Trudinger inequality without boundary condition, the Mountain Pass Theorem and the Ekeland Variational Principle, we prove the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial weak solutions to the problem $$u\in W^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right),-div\left({\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\right|\nabla u\left|\right)\frac{\nabla u}{\left|\nabla u\right|}\right)+V\left(x\right){\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\right|u\left|\right)\frac{u}{\left|u\right|}=f(x,u)+\mu h\left(x\right)\text{in}\Omega ,\frac{\partial u}{\partial 𝐧}=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,$$ where $\Phi$ is a Young function such that the space $W^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right)$ is embedded into exponential or multiple exponential Orlicz space, the nonlinearity $f(x,t)$ has the corresponding critical growth, $V\left(x\right)$ is a continuous potential,...

Let n ≥ 2 and let Ω ⊂ ℝn be an open set. We prove the boundedness of weak solutions to the problem $$u\in W_0^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right)and-div\left({\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\left|\nabla u\right|\right)\frac{\nabla u}{\left|\nabla u\right|}\right)+V\left(x\right){\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\left|u\right|\right)\frac{u}{\left|u\right|}=f\left(x,u\right)+\mu h\left(x\right)in\Omega ,$$ where ϕ is a Young function such that the space W 01 L Φ(Ω) is embedded into an exponential or multiple exponential Orlicz space, the nonlinearity f(x, t) has the corresponding critical growth, V(x) is a continuous potential, h ∈ L Φ(Ω) is a non-trivial continuous function and µ ≥ 0 is a small parameter. We consider two classical cases: the case of Ω being an open bounded set and the case of Ω =...

Generalized reflected backward stochastic differential equations have been considered so far only in the case of a deterministic interval. In this paper the existence and uniqueness of solution for generalized reflected backward stochastic differential equations in a convex domain with random terminal time is studied. Applications to the obstacle problem with Neumann boundary conditions for partial differential equations of elliptic type are given.