Variable exponent Morrey and Campanato spaces

The classical Morrey spaces and Campanato spaces are generalized to the variable exponent case. The definitions and some basic properties of the variable exponent Morrey and Campanato spaces are presented. A concept of the p(⋅)-average of the functions is introduced.     

Nonlinear diffusion equations driven by the p(·)-Laplacian

This paper is concerned with nonlinear diffusion equations driven by the p(·)-Laplacian with variable exponents in space. The well-posedness is first checked for measurable exponents by setting up a subdifferential approach. The main purposes are to investigate the large-time behavior of solutions as well as to reveal the limiting behavior of solutions as p(·) diverges to the infinity in the whole or in a subset of the domain. To this end, the recent developments in the studies of variable exponent Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces are exploited, and moreover, the spatial inhomogeneity of variable exponents p(·) is appropriately controlled to obtain each result.     

Estimates for imaginary powers of Laplace operator in variable Lebesgue spaces and applications

In this paper we study some estimates of norms in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces for singular integral operators that are imaginary powers of the Laplace operator in ? ⁿ . Using the Mellin transform argument, fromthese estimates we obtain the boundedness for a family of maximal operators in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces, which are closely related to the (weak) solution of the wave equation.     

Iterated maximal functions in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces

In this paper we study the iterated Hardy?CLittlewood maximal operator in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces with exponent allowed to reach the value 1. We use modulars where the L ^p(·)-modular is perturbed by a logarithmic-type function, and the results hold also in the more general context of such Musielak?COrlicz spaces.     

On a non-homogeneous eigenvalue problem involving a potential: An Orlicz–Sobolev space setting

In this paper we study a non-homogeneous eigenvalue problem involving variable growth conditions and a potential V. The problem is analyzed in the context of Orlicz–Sobolev spaces. Connected with this problem we also study the optimization problem for the particular eigenvalue given by the infimum of the Rayleigh quotient associated to the problem with respect to the potential V when V lies in a bounded, closed and convex subset of a certain variable exponent Lebesgue space.     

Clifford Valued Weighted Variable Exponent Spaces with an Application to Obstacle Problems

In this paper, we introduce the weighted variable exponent spaces in the context of Clifford algebras. After discussing the properties of these spaces, we obtain the existence of weak solutions for obstacle problems for nondegenerate A-Dirac equations with variable growth in the setting of these spaces. Furthermore, we also obtain the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the scalar parts of nondegenerate A-Dirac equations in Dirac Sobolev spaces.     

Embeddings between grand,small, and variable Lebesgue spaces

We give conditions on the exponent function p( · ) that imply the existence of embeddings between the grand, small, and variable Lebesgue spaces. We construct examples to show that our results are close to optimal. Our work extends recent results by the second author, Rakotoson and Sbordone.     

Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent satisfying a log-Hölder condition at infinity

Our aim in this paper is to deal with the boundedness of maximal functions in generalized Lebesgue spaces Lp(⋅) when p(⋅) satisfies a log-Hölder condition at infinity that is weaker than that of Cruz-Uribe, Fiorenza and Neugebauer [D. Cruz-Uribe, A. Fiorenza, C.J. Neugebauer, The maximal function on variable Lp spaces, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 28 (2003) 223-238; 29 (2004) 247-249]. Our result extends the recent work of Diening [L. Diening, Maximal functions on generalized Lp(⋅) spaces, Math. Inequal. Appl. 7 (2004) 245-254] and the authors Futamura and Mizuta [T. Futamura, Y. Mizuta, Sobolev embeddings for Riesz potential space of variable exponent, preprint]. As an application of the boundedness of maximal functions, we show Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent.     

Characterization of Lipschitz Functions via the Commutators of Singular and Fractional Integral Operators in Variable Lebesgue Spaces

We obtain characterizations of a variable version of Lipschitz spaces in terms of the boundedness of commutators of Calderón-Zygmund and fractional type operators in the context of the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces L ^p(?), where the symbols of the commutators belong to the Lipschitz spaces. A useful tool is a pointwise estimate involving the sharp maximal operator of the commutator and certain associated maximal operators, which is new even in the classical context. Some boundedness properties of the commutators between Lebesgue and Lipschitz spaces in the variable context are also proved.     

Unique Solvability of a Functional-Differential Equation with Orthotropic Contractions in Weighted Spaces

We study the solvability of a new class of functional-differential equations with transformations of the arguments of the unknown function. The transformations include contractions in one independent variable and dilations in the other. (We refer to such transformations as orthotropic contractions.) Sufficient conditions for the solvability of such equations in weighted spaces are obtained depending on the exponent of the space. We show that the original problem reduces to the study of a certain finite-difference equation in the space L²(?).