Let $L$ be a second order divergence form elliptic operator with complex bounded measurable coefficients. The operators arising in connection with $L$, such as the heat semigroup and Riesz transform, are not, in general, of Calderón-Zygmund type and exhibit behavior different from their counterparts built upon the Laplacian. The current paper aims at a thorough description of the properties of such operators in $L^p$, Sobolev, and some new Hardy spaces naturally associated to $L$. First, we show that the...

We prove that the initial value problem for the semi-linear Schrödinger and wave equations is well-posed in the Besov space ${\dot{B}}_2^{\frac{n}{2}-\frac{2}{p},\infty }\left({𝐑}^n\right)$, when the nonlinearity is of type $u^p$, for $p\in 𝐍$. This allows us to obtain self-similar solutions, as well as to recover previously known results for the solutions under weaker smallness assumptions on the data.

Viene studiata la semicontinuità rispetto alla topologia di $L^{\mathrm{\infty }}(\mathrm{\Omega };{𝐑}^m)$ per alcuni funzionali del Calcolo delle Variazioni dipendenti da funzioni a valori vettoriali.

The aim of the paper is two-fold. First, we investigate the ψ-Bessel potential spaces on ${ℝ}_{0+}^{n+1}$ and study some of their properties. Secondly, we consider the fractional powers of an operator of the form $-A_{\pm }=-\psi \left(D_{x^{\text{'}}}\right)\pm \partial /\left(\partial x_{n+1}\right)$, $(x^{\text{'}},x_{n+1})\in {ℝ}_{0+}^{n+1}$, where $\psi \left(D_{x^{\text{'}}}\right)$ is an operator with real continuous negative definite symbol ψ: ℝⁿ → ℝ. We define the domain of the operator $-{(-A_{\pm })}^{\alpha }$ and prove that with this domain it generates an $L_p$-sub-Markovian semigroup.

Extending recent work for the linear Poisson problem for the Laplacian in the framework of Sobolev-Besov spaces on Lipschitz domains by Jerison and Kenig [16], Fabes, Mendez and Mitrea [9], and Mitrea and Taylor [30], here we take up the task of developing a similar sharp theory for semilinear problems of the type Δu - N(x,u) = F(x), equipped with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.

Existence of an optimal shape of a deformable body made from a physically nonlinear material obeying a specific nonlinear generalized Hooke’s law (in fact, the so called deformation theory of plasticity is invoked in this case) is proved. Approximation of the problem by finite elements is also discussed.

Let $n\ge 2$ and $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded set. We give a Moser-type inequality for an embedding of the Orlicz-Sobolev space $W_0{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right)$, where the Young function $\Phi$ behaves like $t^n{log}^{\alpha }\left(t\right)$, $\alpha <n-1$, for $t$ large, into the Zygmund space $Z_0^{\frac{n-1-\alpha }{n}}\left(\Omega \right)$. We also study the same problem for the embedding of the generalized Lorentz-Sobolev space $W_0^m{L}^{\frac{n}{m},q}{log}^{\alpha }L\left(\Omega \right)$, $m<n$, $q\in (1,\infty ]$, $\alpha <\frac{1}{q^{\text{'}}}$, embedded into the Zygmund space $Z_0^{\frac{1}{q^{\text{'}}}-\alpha }\left(\Omega \right)$.

We consider function spaces of Besov, Triebel-Lizorkin, Bessel-potential and Sobolev type on ${ℝ}^d$, equipped with power weights $w\left(x\right)={\left|x\right|}^{\gamma }$, γ > -d. We prove two-weight Sobolev embeddings for these spaces. Moreover, we precisely characterize for which parameters the embeddings hold. The proofs are presented in such a way that they also hold for vector-valued functions.

We prove sharp embeddings of Besov spaces Bp,rσ,α with the classical smoothness σ and a logarithmic smoothness α into Lorentz-Zygmund spaces. Our results extend those with α = 0, which have been proved by D. E. Edmunds and H. Triebel. On page 88 of their paper (Math. Nachr. 207 (1999), 79-92) they have written: ?Nevertheless a direct proof, avoiding the machinery of function spaces, would be desirable.? In our paper we give such a proof even in a more general context. We cover both the sub-limiting...

Sharp estimates are obtained for the rates of blow up of the norms of embeddings of Besov spaces in Lorentz spaces as the parameters approach critical values.

We prove that the generalized Trudinger inequality for Orlicz-Sobolev spaces embedded into multiple exponential spaces implies a version of an inequality due to Brézis and Wainger.

Sharp $L^p-L^q$ estimates are obtained for averaging operators associated to hypersurfaces in $R^n$ given as graphs of homogeneous functions. An application to the regularity of an initial value problem is given.