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 .     

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.     

A class of vector‐valued dilation‐and‐modulation frames on the half real line

Vector‐valued frames were first introduced under the name of superframes by Balan in the context of signal multiplexing and by Han and Larson from the mathematical aspect. Since then, the wavelet and Gabor frames in have interested many mathematicians. The space models vector‐valued causal signal spaces because of the time variable being nonnegative. But it admits no nontrivial shift‐invariant system and thus no wavelet or Gabor frame since is not a group by addition (not as ). Observing that is a group by multiplication, we, in this paper, introduce a class of multiplication‐based dilation‐and‐modulation ( ) systems, and investigate the theory of frames in . Since is not closed under the Fourier transform, the Fourier transform does not fit . We introduce the notion of Θ_a transform in , and using Θ_a‐transform matrix method, we characterize frames, Riesz bases, and dual frames in and obtain an explicit expression of duals for an arbitrary given frame. An example theorem is also presented.     

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.     

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.     

On set systems with restricted k‐wise L‐intersection modulo a prime,and beyond

In this paper, we derive the following bound on the size of a k‐wise L‐intersecting family (resp. cross L‐intersecting families) modulo a prime number:

• (i) Let p be a prime, , and . Let and be two disjoint subsets of such that , or . Suppose that is a family of subsets of [n] such that for every and for every collection of k distinct subsets in . Then, This result may be considered as a modular version of Theorem 1.10 in [J. Q. Liu, S. G. Zhang, S. C. Li, H. H. Zhang, Eur. J. Combin. 58 (2016), 166‐180].
• (ii) Let p be a prime, , and . Let and be two subsets of such that , or , or . Suppose that and are two families of subsets of [n] such that (1) for every pair ; (2) for every ; (3) for every . Then,

This result extends the well‐known Alon–Babai–Suzuki theorem to two cross L‐intersecting families.     

Characterization of Triebel–Lizorkin type spaces with variable exponents via maximal functions,local means and non‐smooth atomic decompositions

In this paper we study the maximal function and local means characterizations and the non‐smooth atomic decomposition of the Triebel–Lizorkin type spaces with variable exponents . These spaces were recently introduced by Yang et al. and cover the Triebel–Lizorkin spaces with variable exponents as well as the classical Triebel–Lizorkin spaces , even the case when . Moreover, covered by this scale are also the Triebel–Lizorkin‐type spaces with constant exponents which, in turn cover the Triebel–Lizorkin–Morrey spaces. As an application we obtain a pointwise multiplier assertion for those spaces.     

Musielak–Orlicz–Bochner function spaces which are uniformly noncreasy

In this paper, the criteria for uniform noncreasiness of Musielak–Orlicz–Bochner function spaces are given. Moreover authors also prove that the space (resp ) is uniformly noncreasy if and only if the space (resp ) is uniformly convex or uniformly smooth. As a corollary, the criteria for uniform noncreasiness of Musielak–Orlicz function spaces are given.     

Ground states for a nonhomogeneous elliptic system involving Hardy–Sobolev critical exponents

This paper studies the following nonhomogeneous elliptic system involving Hardy–Sobolev critical exponents where , Ω is a C ¹ open bounded domain in containing the origin, and . The existence result of positive ground state solution is established.     

Weak Musielak–Orlicz Hardy spaces and applications

Let satisfy that , for any given , is an Orlicz function and is a Muckenhoupt weight uniformly in . In this article, the authors introduce the weak Musielak–Orlicz Hardy space via the grand maximal function and then obtain its vertical or its non–tangential maximal function characterizations. The authors also establish other real‐variable characterizations of , respectively, in terms of the atom, the molecule, the Lusin area function, the Littlewood–Paley g‐function or ‐function. All these characterizations for weighted weak Hardy spaces (namely, and with and ) are new and part of these characterizations even for weak Hardy spaces (namely, and with ) are also new. As an application, the boundedness of Calderón–Zygmund operators from to in the critical case is presented.     

Characterizations of Sobolev spaces associated to operators satisfying off‐diagonal estimates on balls

Let be a metric measure space of homogeneous type and L be a one‐to‐one operator of type ω on for ω ∈[0, π /2). In this article, under the assumptions that L has a bounded H _∞ ‐functional calculus on and satisfies (p _L , q _L ) off‐diagonal estimates on balls, where p _L ∈[1, 2) and q _L ∈(2, ∞ ], the authors establish a characterization of the Sobolev space , defined via L ^{α /2}, of order α ∈(0, 2] for p ∈(p _L , q _L ) by means of a quadratic function S _{α , L} . As an application, the authors show that for the degenerate elliptic operator L _w : =? w  ^? 1div(A ?) and the Schrödinger type operator with a ∈(0, ∞ ) on the weighted Euclidean space with A being real symmetric, if n ?3, with q ∈[1, 2], , p ∈(1, ∞ ) and with , then, for all , , where the implicit equivalent positive constants are independent of f , denotes the class of Muckenhoupt weights, the reverse Hölder class, and D (L _w ) and the domains of L _w and , respectively. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A nonhomogeneous boundary value problem for the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation in a quarter plane

We study the initial boundary value problem for the one‐dimensional Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation posed in a half line with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. Through the analysis of the boundary integral operator, and applying the known results of the Cauchy problem of the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation posed on the whole line , the initial boundary value problem of the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation is shown to be globally well‐posed in Sobolev space for any s >?2. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of blow‐up solutions for elliptic problems in Orlicz–Sobolev spaces

This paper is principally devoted to revisit the remarkable works of Keller and Osserman and generalize some previous results related to the those for the class of quasilinear elliptic problem where either with is a smooth bounded domain or . The function ϕ includes special cases appearing in mathematical models in nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, generalized Newtonian fluids, and in quantum physics. The proofs are based on comparison principle, variational methods and topological arguments on the Orlicz–Sobolev spaces.     

A quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis model: The roles of nonlinear diffusion and logistic source

In this paper, we study the following quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis system (?) in a bounded smooth domain under zero‐flux boundary conditions, where the nonlinearities D ,S ₁, and S ₂ are supposed to generalize the prototypes with , and f ∈C ¹([0,+∞ ) × [0,+∞ )) satisfies with r > 0 and b > 0. If the nonnegative initial data u ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω),v ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω), and for some α ∈(0,1), it is proved that

1. For n = 1, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
2. For n = 2, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
3. For n ≥3, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.

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Three rapidly convergent parareal solvers with application to time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian

Time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian ( ? Δ)^α play a fundamental role in many fields and approximating ( ? Δ)^α usually leads to ODEs' system like u ^′ (t ) + A u (t ) =  g (t ) with A  = Q ^α , where is a sparse symmetric positive definite matrix and α  > 0 denotes the fractional order. The parareal algorithm is an ideal solver for this kind of problems, which is iterative and is characterized by two propagators and . The propagators and are respectively associated with large step size ΔT and small step size Δt , where ΔT  = J Δt and J ?2 is an integer. If we fix the ‐propagator to the Implicit‐Euler method and choose for some proper Runge–Kutta (RK) methods, such as the second‐order and third‐order singly diagonally implicit RK methods, previous studies show that the convergence factors of the corresponding parareal solvers can satisfy and , where σ (A ) is the spectrum of the matrix A . In this paper, we show that by choosing these two RK methods as the ‐propagator, the convergence factors can reach , provided the one‐stage complex Rosenbrock method is used as the ‐propagator. If we choose for both and , the complex Rosenbrock method, we show that the convergence factor of the resulting parareal solver can also reach . Numerical results are given to support our theoretical conclusions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Well‐posedness and unique continuation property for the generalized Ostrovsky equation with low regularity

In this paper, we investigate the initial value problem (IVP henceforth) associated with the generalized Ostrovsky equation as follows: with initial data in the modified Sobolev space . Using Fourier restriction norm method, Tao's [k,Z]?multiplier method and the contraction mapping principle, we show that the local well‐posedness is established for the initial data with (k = 2) and is established for the initial data with (k = 3). Using these results and conservation laws, we also prove that the IVP is globally well‐posed for the initial data with s = 0(k = 2,3). Finally, using complex variables technique and Paley–Wiener theorem, we prove the unique continuation property for the IVP benefited from the ideas of Zhang ZY. et al., On the unique continuation property for the modified Kawahara equation, Advances in Mathematics (China), http://advmath.pku.edu.cn/CN/10.11845/sxjz.2014078b . Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

On singular quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical exponents

We consider a class of singular quasilinear Schrödinger equations of the form where are given functions, N ?3,λ is a positive constant, . By using variational methods together with concentration–compactness principle, we prove the existence of positive solutions of the aforementioned equations under suitable conditions on V (x ) and K (x ). Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Some kind of Bishop–Phelps–Bollobás property

In this paper we introduce two Bishop–Phelps–Bollobás type properties for bounded linear operators between two Banach spaces X and Y : property 1 and property 2. These properties are motivated by a Kim–Lee result which states, under our notation, that a Banach space X is uniformly convex if and only if the pair satisfies property 2. Positive results of pairs of Banach spaces satisfying property 1 are given and concrete pairs of Banach spaces failing both properties are exhibited. A complete characterization of property 1 for the pairs is also provided.