A simplified stochastic Hookean dumbbells model arising from viscoelastic flows is considered, the convective terms being disregarded. A finite element discretization in space is proposed. Existence of the numerical solution is proved for small data, so as a priori error estimates, using an implicit function theorem and regularity results obtained in [Bonito et al., J. Evol. Equ.6 (2006) 381–398] for the solution of the continuous problem. A posteriori error estimates are also derived. Numerical...

Let $X_1,\cdots ,X_n$ be Banach spaces and $f$ a real function on $X=X_1\times \cdots \times X_n$. Let $A_f$ be the set of all points $x\in X$ at which $f$ is partially Fréchet differentiable but is not Fréchet differentiable. Our results imply that if $X_1,\cdots ,X_{n-1}$ are Asplund spaces and $f$ is continuous (respectively Lipschitz) on $X$, then $A_f$ is a first category set (respectively a $\sigma$-upper porous set). We also prove that if $X$, $Y$ are separable Banach spaces and $f:X\to Y$ is a Lipschitz mapping, then there exists a $\sigma$-upper porous set $A\subset X$ such that $f$ is Fréchet differentiable at every...

We introduce and investigate the non-n-linear concept of fully summing mappings; if n = 1 this concept coincides with the notion of nonlinear absolutely summing mappings and in this sense this article unifies these two theories. We also introduce a non-n-linear definition of Hilbert-Schmidt mappings and sketch connections between this concept and fully summing mappings.