Let V be the classical Volterra operator on L²(0,1), and let z be a complex number. We prove that I-zV is power bounded if and only if Re z ≥ 0 and Im z = 0, while I-zV² is power bounded if and only if z = 0. The first result yields $\left|\right|(I-V)ⁿ-{(I-V)}^{n+1}\left|\right|=O\left(n^{-1/2}\right)$ as n → ∞, an improvement of [Py]. We also study some other related operator pencils.

Two-sided estimates of Schatten-von Neumann norms for weighted Volterra integral operators are established. Analogous problems for some potential-type operators defined on Rn are solved.

Cet article reprend et complète la partie qui concerne les opérateurs pseudo- différentiels analytiques dans un travail fait en collaboration avec P. Krée (Ann. Inst. Fourier, 17-1 (1967), 295-323). En particulier la théorie est généralisée aux opérateurs d’ordre infini.

Let T be a kernel operator with values in a rearrangement invariant Banach function space X on [0,∞) and defined over simple functions on [0,∞) of bounded support. We identify the optimal domain for T (still with values in X) in terms of interpolation spaces, under appropriate conditions on the kernel and the space X. The techniques used are based on the relation between linear operators and vector measures.

Refinements of the classical Sobolev inequality lead to optimal domain problems in a natural way. This is made precise in recent work of Edmunds, Kerman and Pick; the fundamental technique is to prove that the (generalized) Sobolev inequality is equivalent to the boundedness of an associated kernel operator on [0,1]. We make a detailed study of both the optimal domain, providing various characterizations of it, and of properties of the kernel operator when it is extended to act in its optimal domain....

Let $A_{\alpha }f\left(x\right)={\left|B\right(0,\left|x\right|\left)\right|}^{-\alpha /n}{\int }_{B(0,|x\left|\right)}f\left(t\right)dt$ be the n-dimensional fractional Hardy operator, where 0 < α ≤ n. It is well-known that $A_{\alpha }$ is bounded from $L^p$ to $L^{p_{\alpha }}$ with $p_{\alpha }=np/(\alpha p-np+n)$ when n(1-1/p) < α ≤ n. We improve this result within the framework of Banach function spaces, for instance, weighted Lebesgue spaces and Lorentz spaces. We in fact find a ’source’ space $S_{\alpha ,Y}$, which is strictly larger than X, and a ’target’ space $T_Y$, which is strictly smaller than Y, under the assumption that $A_{\alpha }$ is bounded from X into Y and the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator...

Let ϕ and ψ be functions defined on [0,∞) taking the value zero at zero and with non-negative continuous derivative. Under very mild extra assumptions we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the fractional maximal operator $M_{\Omega }^{\alpha }$, associated to an open bounded set Ω, to be bounded from the Orlicz space $L^{\psi }\left(\Omega \right)$ into $L^{\varphi }\left(\Omega \right)$, 0 ≤ α < n. For functions ϕ of finite upper type these results can be extended to the Hilbert transform f̃ on the one-dimensional torus and to the fractional integral operator $I_{\Omega }^{\alpha }$, 0...

We survey results concerning the L2 boundedness of oscillatory and Fourier integral operators and discuss applications. The article does not intend to give a broad overview; it mainly focuses on topics related to the work of the authors.[Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, El Escorial (Madrid), 2002].