If the minimum problem (${𝒫}_{\mathrm{\infty }}$) is the limit, in a variational sense, of a sequence of minimum problems with obstacles of the type $$\underset{u\ge {\varphi }_h}{\min }{\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}\left[f_h(x,Du)+a(x,u)\right]dx,$$ then (${𝒫}_{\mathrm{\infty }}$) can be written in the form $${𝒫}_{\infty }\underset{u}{min}\left\{{\int }_{\Omega }\left[f_{\infty }(x,Du)+a(x,u)\right]dx+{\int }_{\overline{\Omega }}{g}_{\infty }(x,\overline{u}\left(x\right))d{\mu }_{\infty }\left(x\right)\right\}$$ without any additional constraint.

Supposing that the metric space in question supports a fractional diffusion, we prove that after introducing an appropriate multiplicative factor, the Gagliardo seminorms ${\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{W^{\sigma ,2}}$ of a function f ∈ L²(E,μ) have the property $1/Cℰ(f,f)\le lim in{f}_{\sigma \nearrow 1}{\left(1-\sigma \right)\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{W^{\sigma ,2}}\le lim su{p}_{\sigma \nearrow 1}{\left(1-\sigma \right)\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{W^{\sigma ,2}}\le Cℰ(f,f)$, where ℰ is the Dirichlet form relative to the fractional diffusion.

We collect and extend results on the limit of ${\sigma }^{1-k}{(1-\sigma )}^k{\left|v\right|}_{l+\sigma ,p,\Omega }^p$ as σ → 0⁺ or σ → 1¯, where Ω is ℝⁿ or a smooth bounded domain, k ∈ 0,1, l ∈ ℕ, p ∈ [1,∞), and ${\left|·\right|}_{l+\sigma ,p,\Omega }$ is the intrinsic seminorm of order l+σ in the Sobolev space $W^{l+\sigma ,p}\left(\Omega \right)$. In general, the above limit is equal to $c{\left[v\right]}^p$, where c and [·] are, respectively, a constant and a seminorm that we explicitly provide. The particular case p = 2 for Ω = ℝⁿ is also examined and the results are then proved by using the Fourier transform.

We study limiting K- and J-methods for arbitrary Banach couples. They are related by duality and they extend the methods already known in the ordered case. We investigate the behaviour of compact operators and we also discuss the representation of the methods by means of the corresponding dual functional. Finally, some examples of limiting function spaces are given.

The estimate ${∥D^{k-1}u∥}_{L^{n/(n-1)}}\le {∥A\left(D\right)u∥}_{L^1}$ is shown to hold if and only if $A\left(D\right)$ is elliptic and canceling. Here $A\left(D\right)$ is a homogeneous linear differential operator $A\left(D\right)$ of order $k$ on ${ℝ}^n$ from a vector space $V$ to a vector space $E$. The operator $A\left(D\right)$ is defined to be canceling if ${\bigcap }_{\xi \in {ℝ}^n\setminus \left\{0\right\}}A\left(\xi \right)\left[V\right]=\left\{0\right\}$. This result implies in particular the classical Gagliardo–Nirenberg–Sobolev inequality, the Korn–Sobolev inequality and Hodge–Sobolev estimates for differential forms due to J. Bourgain and H. Brezis. In the proof, the class of cocanceling homogeneous linear differential...

It is proved that if X is infinite-dimensional, then there exists an infinite-dimensional space of X-valued measures which have infinite variation on sets of positive Lebesgue measure. In term of spaceability, it is also shown that $ca(ℬ,\lambda ,X)\setminus M_{\sigma }$, the measures with non-σ-finite variation, contains a closed subspace. Other considerations concern the space of vector measures whose range is neither closed nor convex. All of those results extend in some sense theorems of Muñoz Fernández et al. [Linear Algebra Appl....

Let U be an open subset of a separable Banach space. Let ℱ be the collection of all holomorphic mappings f from the open unit disc 𝔻 ⊂ ℂ into U such that f(𝔻) is dense in U. We prove the lineability and density of ℱ in appropriate spaces for different choices of U.

Representation of bounded and compact linear operators in the Banach space of regulated functions is given in terms of Perron-Stieltjes integral.