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 .     

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.     

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.     

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 .     

On Fejér's inequalities for the Legendre polynomials

We present various inequalities for the sum where denotes the Legendre polynomial of degree k . Among others we prove that the inequalities hold for all and . The constant factors 2/5 and are sharp. This refines a classical result of Fejér, who proved in 1908 that is nonnegative for all and .     

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.     

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 .     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Concave univalent functions and Dirichlet finite integral

The article deals with the class consisting of non‐vanishing functions f that are analytic and univalent in such that the complement is a convex set, and the angle at ∞ is less than or equal to for some . Related to this class is the class of concave univalent mappings in , but this differs from with the standard normalization A number of properties of these classes are discussed which includes an easy proof of the coefficient conjecture for settled by Avkhadiev et al. 3 . Moreover, another interesting result connected with the Yamashita conjecture on Dirichlet finite integral for is also presented.     

Jakšić–Last theorem for higher rank perturbations

We consider the generalized Anderson model , where is a countable set, are i.i.d. random variables and the are rank projections. For these models we prove theorem analogous to that of Jak?i?–Last on the equivalence of the trace measure for a.e. ω. Our model covers the dimer and polymer models.     

Recovery of periodicities hidden in heavy‐tailed noise

We address a parametric joint detection‐estimation problem for discrete signals of the form , , with an additive noise represented by independent centered complex random variables . The distributions of are assumed to be unknown, but satisfying various sets of conditions. We prove that in the case of a heavy‐tailed noise it is possible to construct asymptotically strongly consistent estimators for the unknown parameters of the signal, i.e., frequencies , their number N, and complex coefficients . For example, one of considered classes of noise is the following: are independent identically distributed random variables with and . The construction of estimators is based on detection of singularities of anti‐derivatives for Z‐transforms and on a two‐level selection procedure for special discretized versions of superlevel sets. The consistency proof relies on the convergence theory for random Fourier series.     

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 , .     

New gap results on the 4‐dimensional sphere

A result showed by M. Gursky in 4 ensures that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere satisfying and is isometric to the round metric. In this note, we prove that there exists a universal number i ₀ such that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere satisfying and is isometric to the round metric. Moreover, there exists a universal such that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere with nonnegative sectional curvature, and is isometric to the round metric. This last result slightly improves a rigidity theorem also proved in 4 .     

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 .     

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 .     

New minimal hypersurfaces in and

We find a class of minimal hypersurfaces as the zero level set of Pfaffians, resp. determinants of real dimensional antisymmetric matrices. While and are congruent to the quadratic cone resp. Hsiang's cubic invariant in , (special harmonic ‐invariant cones of degree ⩾4) seem to be new.