The Brezis–Nirenberg problem for fractional elliptic operators

Let be a uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form in a bounded open subset Ω of . We study the effect of the operator on the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of the nonlocal Brezis–Nirenberg problem where denotes the fractional power of with zero Dirichlet boundary values on , , and λ is a real parameter. By assuming for all and near some point , we prove existence theorems for any , where denotes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of . Our existence result holds true for and in the interior case () and for and in the boundary case (). Nonexistence for star‐shaped domains is obtained for any .     

Littlewood–Paley characterizations of higher‐order Sobolev spaces via averages on balls

In this article, the authors characterize higher‐order Sobolev spaces , with , and , or with , and , via the Lusin area function and the Littlewood–Paley ‐function in terms of ball averages, where denotes the maximal integer not greater than . Moreover, the authors also complement the above results in the endpoint cases of p via establishing some weak type estimates. These improve and develop the corresponding known results for Sobolev spaces with smoothness order .     

Spectral gaps for the Dirichlet‐Laplacian in a 3‐D waveguide periodically perturbed by a family of concentrated masses

We consider a spectral problem for the Laplace operator in a periodic waveguide perturbed by a family of “heavy concentrated masses”; namely, Π contains small regions of high density, which are periodically distributed along the z axis. Each domain has a diameter and the density takes the value in and 1 outside; m and ε are positive parameters, , . Considering a Dirichlet boundary condition, we study the band‐gap structure of the essential spectrum of the corresponding operator as . We provide information on the width of the first bands and find asymptotic formulas for the localization of the possible gaps.     

Low dimensional instability for quasilinear problems of weighted exponential nonlinearity

We prove a sharp Liouville type theorem for stable solutions of the equation on the entire Euclidean space , where and f is a continuous and nonnegative function in such that as , where and . Our theorem holds true for and is sharp in the case .     

Boundedness in a fully parabolic chemotaxis‐consumption system with nonlinear diffusion and sensitivity,and logistic source

In this paper we study the zero‐flux chemotaxis‐system Ω being a convex smooth and bounded domain of , , and where , and . For any the chemotactic sensitivity function is assumed to behave as the prototype , with and . We prove that for nonnegative and sufficiently regular initial data and , the corresponding initial‐boundary value problem admits a unique globally bounded classical solution provided μ is large enough.     

Well‐posedness of fractional degenerate differential equations with finite delay on vector‐valued functional spaces

We study the well‐posedness of the fractional degenerate differential equations with finite delay on Lebesgue–Bochner spaces , periodic Besov spaces and periodic Triebel–Lizorkin spaces , where A and M are closed linear operators on a Banach space X satisfying , F is a bounded linear operator from (resp. and ) into X, where is given by when and . Using known operator‐valued Fourier multiplier theorems, we give necessary or sufficient conditions for the well‐posedness of in the above three function spaces.     

A unified method for boundedness in fully parabolic chemotaxis systems with signal-dependent sensitivity

This paper deals with the Keller–Segel system where Ω is a bounded domain in with smooth boundary , ; χ is a nonnegative function satisfying for some and . In the case that and , Fujie 2 established global existence of bounded solutions under the condition . On the other hand, when , Winkler 14 asserted global existence of bounded solutions for arbitrary . However, there is a gap in the proof. Recently, Fujie tried modifying the proof; nevertheless it also has a gap. It seems to be difficult to show global existence of bounded solutions for arbitrary . Moreover, the condition for K when cannot connect with the condition when . The purpose of the present paper is to obtain global existence and boundedness under more natural and proper condition for χ and to build a mathematical bridge between the cases and .     

On a generalized nonlinear heat equation in Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces

The paper deals with solutions of the Cauchy problem of a nonlinear generalized heat equation in the context of Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces and where and with initial data belonging to some spaces where and .     

Eigenvalues of Robin Laplacians in infinite sectors

For , let denote the infinite planar sector of opening 2α, and be the Laplacian in , , with the Robin boundary condition , where stands for the outer normal derivative and . The essential spectrum of does not depend on the angle α and equals , and the discrete spectrum is non‐empty if and only if . In this case we show that the discrete spectrum is always finite and that each individual eigenvalue is a continous strictly increasing function of the angle α. In particular, there is just one discrete eigenvalue for . As α approaches 0, the number of discrete eigenvalues becomes arbitrary large and is minorated by with a suitable , and the nth eigenvalue of behaves as and admits a full asymptotic expansion in powers of α². The eigenfunctions are exponentially localized near the origin. The results are also applied to δ‐interactions on star graphs.     

Well‐posedness,blow‐up phenomena and analyticity for a two‐component higher order Camassa–Holm system

In this paper, the local well‐posedness for the Cauchy problem of a two‐component higher‐order Camassa–Holm system (2HOCH) is established in Besov spaces with and (and also in Sobolev spaces with ), which improves the corresponding results for higher‐order Camassa–Holm in 7 , 24 , 25 , where the Sobolev index is required, respectively. Then the precise blow‐up mechanism and global existence for the strong solutions of 2HOCH are determined in the lowest Sobolev space with . Finally, the Gevrey regularity and analyticity of the 2HOCH are presented.     

Korovkin‐type results for multivariate functions which are periodic with respect to one variable

Let K be a compact metric space and let denote the real Banach space of all continuous functions which are 2π‐periodic with respect to the second variable. We prove the following Korovkin‐type result: Let be a continuous algebraic separating function such that for all , and let be a sequence of positive linear operators. If uniformly with respect to and uniformly on for all , then uniformly on for every . As a corollary we deduce: If , then uniformly on for every if and only if uniformly on for every , where and .     

Existence of solutions to a non‐variational singular elliptic system with unbounded weights

In this paper we prove an existence result for the following singular elliptic system where Ω is a bounded open set in (), is the p‐laplacian operator, and are suitable Lebesgue functions and , , are positive parameters satisfying suitable assumptions.     

Riesz transforms of the Hodge–de Rham Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds

Let M be a complete non‐compact Riemannian manifold satisfying the volume doubling property. Let be the Hodge–de Rham Laplacian acting on 1‐differential forms. According to the Bochner formula, where and are respectively the positive and negative part of the Ricci curvature and ? is the Levi–Civita connection. We study the boundedness of the Riesz transform from to and of the Riesz transform from to . We prove that, if the heat kernel on functions satisfies a Gaussian upper bound and if the negative part of the Ricci curvature is ε‐sub‐critical for some , then is bounded from to and is bounded from to for where depends on ε and on a constant appearing in the volume doubling property. A duality argument gives the boundedness of the Riesz transform from to for where Δ is the non‐negative Laplace–Beltrami operator. We also give a condition on to be ε‐sub‐critical under both analytic and geometric assumptions.     

Hardy spaces for Bessel–Schrödinger operators

Consider the Bessel operator with a potential on , namely We assume that and is a nonnegative function. By definition, a function belongs to the Hardy space if Under certain assumptions on V we characterize the space in terms of atomic decompositions of local type. In the second part we prove that this characterization can be applied to for with no additional assumptions on the potential V.     

Isomorphic classification of mixed sequence spaces and of Besov spaces over [0, 1]d

The aim of this paper is to establish the isomorphic classification of Besov spaces over [0, 1]^d . Using the identification of the Besov space with the ‐infinite direct sum of finite‐dimensional spaces (which holds independently of the dimension and of the smoothness degree of the space ) we show that , , is a family of mutually non‐isomorphic spaces. The only exception is the isomorphism between the spaces and , which follows from Pełczyński's isomorphism between and . We also tell apart the isomorphic classes of spaces from the isomorphic classes of Besov spaces over the Euclidean space .     

Boundedness and compactness of Hardy operators on Lorentz‐type spaces

Given non‐negative measurable functions on we study the high dimensional Hardy operator between Orlicz–Lorentz spaces , where f is a measurable function of and is the ball of radius t in . We give sufficient conditions of boundedness of and . We investigate also boundedness and compactness of between weighted and classical Lorentz spaces. The function spaces considered here do not need to be Banach spaces. Specifying the weights and the Orlicz functions we recover the existing results as well as we obtain new results in the new and old settings.     

Optimizers for the singular Trudinger–Moser inequalities in the critical case in

The main purpose of this paper is to study the existence of extremal functions for the singular Trudinger–Moser inequalities in the critical case in . More precisely, let and denote then we will prove in this article that there exists such that can be achieved for all , .     

Upper bound for the ratios of eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with nonnegative single‐barrier potentials

In this paper we prove the optimal upper bound for one‐dimensional Schrödinger operators with a nonnegative differentiable and single‐barrier potential , such that , where . In particular, if satisfies the additional condition , then for . For this result, we develop a new approach to study the monotonicity of the modified Prüfer angle function.     

Some characterizations of BLO space

For , a real‐valued function belongs to space if In this paper, we establish a version of John–Nirenberg inequality suitable for the space with . As a corollary, it is proved that spaces are independent of the scale in sense of norm. Also, we characterize the space through weighted Lebesgue spaces and variable Lebesgue spaces, respectively.