Elliptic translators on manifolds with multidimensional singularities

We consider translators on manifolds with many-dimensional singularities. We state the definition of ellipticity for translators, prove a finiteness (Fredholm property) theorem, and establish an index formula.     

Elliptic translators on manifolds with point singularities

We consider translators on manifolds with singularities of the type of a transversal intersection of smooth manifolds. We give the definition of ellipticity of translators, prove the finiteness (Fredholm property) theorem, and establish an index formula for the case of point singularities.     

Sobolev spaces with variable exponents on Riemannian manifolds

In this article we study variable exponent Sobolev spaces on Riemannian manifolds. The spaces are examined in the case of compact manifolds. Continuous and compact embeddings are discussed. The paper contains an example of the application of the theory to elliptic equations on compact manifolds.     

Heat kernel asymptotics on manifolds with conic singularities

The Laplacian acting onk-forms on a manifold with isolated conic singularities is not in general an essentially self-adjoint operator. The heat kernels for self-adjoint extensions of the Laplacian on these metric spaces are described as functions conormal to a manifold with corners. The heat kernel for a given self-adjoint extension is constructed from the Friedrichs heat kernel. The terms in the difference of the heat trace expansions are shown to supply information parametrizing the extension.     

Calabi-Yau manifolds with isolated conical singularities

Let \(X\) be a complex projective variety with only canonical singularities and with trivial canonical bundle. Let \(L\) be an ample line bundle on \(X\). Assume that the pair \((X,L)\) is the flat limit of a family of smooth polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. Assume that for each singular point \(x \in X\) there exist a Kähler-Einstein Fano manifold \(Z\) and a positive integer \(q\) dividing \(K_{Z}\) such that \(-\frac{1}{q}K_{Z}\) is very ample and such that the germ \((X,x)\) is locally analytically isomorphic to a neighborhood of the vertex of the blow-down of the zero section of \(\frac{1}{q}K_{Z}\). We prove that up to biholomorphism, the unique weak Ricci-flat Kähler metric representing \(2\pi c_{1}(L)\) on \(X\) is asymptotic at a polynomial rate near \(x\) to the natural Ricci-flat Kähler cone metric on \(\frac{1}{q}K_{Z}\) constructed using the Calabi ansatz. In particular, our result applies if \((X, \mathcal{O}(1))\) is a nodal quintic threefold in \(\mathbf {P}^{4}\). This provides the first known examples of compact Ricci-flat manifolds with non-orbifold isolated conical singularities.     

Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds

This paper studies Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds. We show that on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold the constant in the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality cannot be smaller than the optimal one on the Euclidean space of the same dimension. We also show that a complete non-compact manifold with asymptotically non-negative Ricci curvature admitting some Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality is not very far from the Euclidean space.     

Sharp Sobolev trace inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with boundaries

In this paper, we establish some sharp Sobolev trace inequalities on n-dimensional, compact Riemannian manifolds with smooth boundaries. More specifically, let q = 2(n - 1)/(n - 2), 1/S = inf {∫ |∇u|² : ∇u ∈ L²(R₊ⁿ), ∫ |u|^q = 1}. We establish for any Riemannian manifold with a smooth boundary, denoted as (M, g), that there exists some constant A = A(M, g) > 0, (∫_dM|u|^q ds_g)^2/q < or = to S ∫_M |∇_gu|² dv_g + A ∫_dMu² ds_g, for all u ∈ H¹ (M). The inequality is sharp in the sense that the inequality is false when S is replaced by any smaller number. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Convergence of Sobolev spaces on varying manifolds

We deal with variational problems on varying manifolds in ℝⁿ. We represent each manifold by a positive measure μ, to which we associate a suitable notion of tangent space Tμ, of mean curvature H(μ), and of Sobolev spaces with respect to μ on an open subset Ω ⊆ ℝⁿ. We introduce the notions of weak and strong convergence for functions defined on varying manifolds, that is defined μ_h -a.e., being {μ_h} a weakly convergent sequence of measures. In this setting, we prove a strong-weak type compactness theorem for the pairs (P_{μ h} H(μ_h)), where P_{μ h} are the projectors onto the tangent spaces T_{μ h}. When μ_h belong to a suitable class of k-dimensional measures, having in particular a prescribed (k−1)-manifold as a boundary, we enforce this result to study the convergence of energy functionals, possibly with a Dirichlet condition on ∂Ω. We also address a perspective for optimization problems where the control variable is represented by a manifold with a prescribed boundary.     

On global singularities of Sobolev mappings

We define various invariants for Sobolev mappings defined between manifolds which are stable under perturbation with respect to the strong Sobolev topology. We show that these invariants classify various types of ``global singularities" of Sobolev maps. These invariants are used to give a simple characterization of the strong closure of the set of smooth maps in the Sobolev space.     

Complex powers of differential operators on manifolds with conical singularities

We construct the complex powersA _z for an elliptic cone (or Fuchs type) differential operatorA on a manifold with boundary. We show thatA _z exists as an entire family ofb-pseudodifferential operators. We also examine the analytic structure of the Schwartz kernel ofA _z , both on and off the diagonal. Finally, we study the meromorphic behavior of the zeta function Tr(A _z ). Supported by a Ford Foundation Fellowship administered by the National Research Council.     

Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on noncompact Riemannian manifolds

Summary. This paper presents a dimension-free Harnack type inequality for heat semigroups on manifolds, from which a dimension-free lower bound is obtained for the logarithmic Sobolev constant on compact manifolds and a new criterion is proved for the logarithmic Sobolev inequalities (abbrev. LSI) on noncompact manifolds. As a result, it is shown that LSI may hold even though the curvature of the operator is negative everywhere. Received: 24 July 1996 / In revised form: 25 June 1997     

Quasilinear problems with singularities

We solve here some quasilinear problems with a sum of Dirac masses at the right-hand side. For that purpose, we prove a regularity theorem for nonlinear systems of the Hodge-de Rham type, and we generalize de Giorgi's notion of perimeter to subsets of compacts manifolds.     

Removable singularities for a Sobolev space

Let Ω⊂RN be an open set and F a relatively closed subset of Ω. We show that if the (N−1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure of F is finite, then the spaces and coincide, that is, F is a removable singularity for . Here is the closure of in H¹(Ω) and H¹(Ω) denotes the first order Sobolev space. We also give a relative capacity criterium for this removability. The space is important for defining realizations of the Laplacian with Neumann and with Robin boundary conditions. For example, if the boundary of Ω has finite (N−1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure, then our results show that we may replace Ω by the better set (which is regular in topology), i.e., Neumann boundary conditions (respectively Robin boundary conditions) on Ω and on coincide.     

Differential equations on manifolds with edge singularities in spaces with asymptotics

The present paper deals with differential equations with edge degeneration in spaces with asymptotics. We give the definition of an edge space with asymptotics, prove the continuity of operators with edge degeneration in the scale of these spaces, present statements of problems with edge operators, and state conditions providing their Fredholm property.     

Asymptotics of best Sobolev constants on thin manifolds

We study the asymptotic behaviour of best Sobolev constants on a compact manifold with boundary that we contract in k directions or to a point. We find in the limit best Sobolev constants for weighted Sobolev spaces of the limit manifold.     

Bounded imaginary powers of differential operators on manifolds with conical singularities

 We study the minimal and maximal closed extension of a differential operator A on a manifold B with conical singularities, when A acts as an unbounded operator on weighted L _p -spaces over B, 1<p<∞. Under suitable ellipticity assumptions we can define a family of complex powers A ^z , zℂ. We also obtain sufficient information on the resolvent of A to show the boundedness of the purely imaginary powers. Examples concern unique solvability and maximal regularity for the solution of the Cauchy problem for the Laplacian on conical manifolds as well as certain quasilinear diffusion equations. Received: 12 June 2001; in final form: 3 June 2002 / Published online: 1 April 2003 Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 35J70, 47A10, 35K57