Sharp norm estimates for a class of integral operators

ABSTRACT

Norm comparison inequalities for two integral operators with radial kernels are established. Sharp norm estimates for operators with monotone and convex/concave kernels are obtained. Integral analogues of Bennett's estimates for summability matrices are given. The exact operator norms with power weights are also obtained for a class of integral operators with radial quasimonotone kernels.     

Link of groups and homogeneous Hörmander operators

We study a notion of link of Lie groups suggested by the structure of the partial differential operators of Kolmogorov type. As an application of our link procedure we construct explicit examples of stratified Lie groups, with dimension and step arbitrarily large. We also give a set of examples of hypoelliptic second-order operators which are left translation invariant and homogeneous of degree two on the previous groups.

     

A note on integral representations of linear operators

In this paper we describe families of those bounded linear operators that are simultaneously unitarily equivalent to integral operators with smooth Carleman kernels. The singleton case of the main result implies that every integral operator is unitarily equivalent to an integral operator having smooth Carleman kernel.     

Fundamental Solutions of Some Linear Operator Equations and Applications

A concept of a fundamental solution is introduced for linear operator equations given in some functional spaces. In the case where this fundamental solution does not exist, the representation of the solution is found by the concept of a generalized fundamental solution, which is introduced for operators with nontrivial and generally infinite-dimensional kernels. The fundamental and generalized fundamental solutions are also investigated for a class of Fredholm-type operator equations. Some applications are given for one-dimensional generally nonlocal hyperbolic problems with trivial, finite- and infinite-dimensional kernels. The fundamental and generalized fundamental solutions of such problems are constructed as particular solutions of a system of integral equations or an integral equation. These fundamental solutions become meaningful in a general case when the coefficients are generally nonsmooth functions satisfying only some conditions such as p-integrablity and boundedness.     

Geometric properties of root vectors for equation of nonhomogeneous damped string: transformation operators method

The spectral decomposition theorem for a class of nonselfadjoint operators in a Hilbert space is obtained in the paper. These operators are the dynamics generators for the systems governed by 1–dim hyperbolic equations with spatially nonhomogeneous coefficients containing first order damping terms and subject to linear nonselfadjoint boundary conditions. These equations and boundary conditions describe, in particular, a spatially nonhomogeneous string subject to a distributed viscous damping and also damped at the boundary points. The main result leading to the spectral decomposition is the fact that the generalized eigenvectors (root vectors) of the above operators form Riesz bases in the corresponding energy spaces. The proofs are based on the transformation operators method. The classical concept of transformation operators is extended to the equation of damped string. Originally, this concept was developed by I. M. Gelfand, B. M. Levitan and V. A. Marchenko for 1–dim Schrödinger equation in connection with the inverse scattering problem. In the classical case, the transformation operator maps the exponential function (stationary wave function of the free particle) into the Jost solution of the perturbed Schrödinger equation. For the equation of a nonhomogeneous damped string, it is natural to introduce two transformation operators (outgoing and incoming transformation operators). The terminology is motivated by an analog with the Lax—Phillips scattering theory. The transformation operators method is used to reduce the Riesz bases property problem for the generalized eigenvectors to the similar problem for a system of nonharmonic exponentials whose complex frequencies are precisely the eigenvalues of our operators. The latter problem is solved based on the spectral asymptotics and known facts about exponential families. The main result presented in the paper means that the generator of a finite string with damping both in the equation and in the boundary conditions is a Riesz spectral operator. The latter result provides a class of nontrivial examples of non—selfadjoint operators which admit an analog of the spectral decomposition. The result also has significant applications in the control theory of distributed parameter systems.     

Factorizing operators on Banach function spaces through spaces of multiplication operators

In order to extend the theory of optimal domains for continuous operators on a Banach function space X(μ) over a finite measure μ, we consider operators T satisfying other type of inequalities than the one given by the continuity which occur in several well-known factorization theorems (for instance, Pisier Factorization Theorem through Lorentz spaces, pth-power factorable operators …). We prove that such a T factorizes through a space of multiplication operators which can be understood in a certain sense as the optimal domain for T. Our extended optimal domain technique does not need necessarily the equivalence between μ and the measure defined by the operator T and, by using δ-rings, μ is allowed to be infinite. Classical and new examples and applications of our results are also given, including some new results on the Hardy operator and a factorization theorem through Hilbert spaces.     

Integral operators with homogeneous kernels in grand Lebesgue spaces

Sufficient conditions on the kernel and the grandizer that ensure the boundedness of integral operators with homogeneous kernels in grand Lebesgue spaces on ? ⁿ as well as an upper bound for their norms are obtained. For some classes of grandizers, necessary conditions and lower bounds for the norm of these operators are also obtained. In the case of a radial kernel, stronger estimates are established in terms of one-dimensional grand norms of spherical means of the function. A sufficient condition for the boundedness of the operator with homogeneous kernel in classical Lebesgue spaces with arbitrary radial weight is obtained. As an application, boundedness in grand spaces of the one-dimensional operator of fractional Riemann–Liouville integration and of a multidimensional Hilbert-type operator is studied.     

Stability for localized integral operators on weighted spaces of homogeneous type

Linear operators with off-diagonal decay appear in many areas of mathematics including harmonic and numerical analysis, and their stability is one of the basic assumptions. In this paper, we consider a family of localized integral operators in the Beurling algebra with kernels having mild singularity near the diagonal and certain Hölder continuity property, and prove that their weighted stabilities for different exponents and Muckenhoupt weights are equivalent to each other on a space of homogeneous type with Ahlfors regular measure.     

Green's operators

Summary Generailzed Green's functions are kernels of integral operators with certain properties. Solution operators with these properties are calledGreen's operators. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Green's operators are given for the general case, and for operators on Banach spaces. This work has been supported by Sandia Corporation, a prime contractor to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.     

Some approximation properties by a class of bivariate operators

Starting with the well‐ known Bernstein operators, in the present paper, we give a new generalization of the bivariate type. The approximation properties of this new class of bivariate operators are studied. Also, the extension of the proposed operators, namely, the generalized Boolean sum (GBS) in the Bögel space of continuous functions is given. In order to underline the fact that in this particular case, GBS operator has better order of convergence than the original ones, some numerical examples are provided with the aid of Maple soft. Also, the error of approximation for the modified Bernstein operators and its GBS‐type operator are compared.     

Bounds for commutators of multilinear fractional integral operators with homogeneous kernels

We will show bounds for commutators of multilinear fractional integral operators with some homogeneous kernels.     

Oscillatory integral operators with homogeneous polynomial phases in several variables

We obtain L² decay estimates in λ for oscillatory integral operators Tλ whose phase functions are homogeneous polynomials of degree m and satisfy various genericity assumptions. The decay rates obtained are optimal in the case of (2+2)-dimensions for any m, while in higher dimensions the result is sharp for m sufficiently large. The proof for large m follows from essentially algebraic considerations. For cubics in (2+2)-dimensions, the proof involves decomposing the operator near the conic zero variety of the determinant of the Hessian of the phase function, using an elaboration of the general approach of Phong and Stein [D.H. Phong, E.M. Stein, Models of degenerate Fourier integral operators and Radon transforms, Ann. of Math. (2) 140 (1994) 703-722].     

Boundedness for multilinear fractional integral operators on Herz type spaces

In this paper the boundedness for the multilinear fractional integral operator Iα^（m） on the product of Herz spaces and Herz-Morrey spaces are founded, which improves the Hardy- Littlewood-Sobolev inequality for classical fractional integral Iα. The method given in the note is useful for more general multilinear integral operators.     

Symmetry properties for solutions of nonlocal equations involving nonlinear operators

We pursue the study of one-dimensional symmetry of solutions to nonlinear equations involving nonlocal operators. We consider a vast class of nonlinear operators and in a particular case it covers the fractional p-Laplacian operator. Just like the classical De Giorgi's conjecture, we establish a Poincaré inequality and a linear Liouville theorem to provide two different proofs of the one-dimensional symmetry results in two dimensions. Both approaches are of independent interests. In addition, we provide certain energy estimates for layer solutions and Liouville theorems for stable solutions. Most of the methods and ideas applied in the current article are applicable to nonlocal operators with general kernels where the famous extension problem, given by Caffarelli and Silvestre, is not necessarily known.     

Differentiated shift-invariant integral operators,univariate case

In a recent paper [1] the author, along with H. Gonska, introduced some wavelet type integral operators over the whole real line and studied their properties such as shift-invariance, global smoothness preservation, convergence to the unit, and preservation of probability distribution functions. These operators are very general and they are introduced through a convolution-like iteration of another general operator with a scaling type function. In this paper the author provides sufficient conditions, so that the derivatives of the above operators enjoy the same nice properties as their originals. A sufficient condition is also given so that the “global smoothness preservation” related inequality becomes sharp. At the end several applications are given, where the derivatives of the very general specialized operators are shown to fulfill all the above properties. In particular it is shown that they preserve continuous probability density functions.     

Topological methods in solvability theory of multidimensional pair integral operators with homogeneous kernels of compact type

The problem of getting effective Fredholm conditions for operators with bihomogeneous kernels reduces to the question of invertibility for families of operators with homogeneous kernels and to the calculation of homotopy invariants for spaces of Fredholm and invertible operators of that type. The purpose of the present paper is to study integral operators with homogeneous kernels of compact type in L _p (? ⁿ ), 1 < p < +??. The classes of homotopy equivalence for the spaces of Fredholm and invertible operators in the C*-algebra of pair operators with homogeneous kernels of compact type are calculated by means of operator K-theory.     

Invariant sublattices for positive operators

There are, by now, many results which guarantee that positive operators on Banach lattices have non-trivial closed invariant sublattices. In particular, this is true for every positive compact operator. Apart from some results of a general nature, in this paper we present several examples of positive operators on Banach lattices which do not have non-trivial closed invariant sublattices. These examples include both AM-spaces and Banach lattices with an order continuous norm and which are and are not atomic. In all these cases we can ensure that the operators do possess non-trivial closed invariant subspaces.     

Boundedness properties for a class of integral operators including the index transforms and the operators with complex Gaussian kernels

In this paper we study the behavior of general integral operators on weighted L^p spaces. Particular cases include the main index transforms and the operators with complex Gaussian kernels. We also extend some previous results established in [E.R. Negrin, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995) 1185-1190].     

Integral operators with operator-valued kernels

Under fairly mild measurability and integrability conditions on operator-valued kernels, boundedness results for integral operators on Bochner spaces L_p(X) are given. In particular, these results are applied to convolutions operators.     

Convergence and Rate of Approximation in BVΦ for a Class of Integral Operators

We obtain estimates and convergence results with respect to ?-variation in spaces BV_Φ for a class of linear integral operators whose kernels satisfy a general homogeneity condition. Rates of approximation are also obtained. As applications, we apply our general theory to the case of Mellin convolution operators, to that one of moment operators and finally to a class of operators of fractional order.