INTERPOLATION INEQUALITIES AND DECAY ESTIMATES FOR DERIVATIVES

Under the only assumption of the cone property for a given domain Rn, it is proved that inter polation inequalities for intermediate derivatives of functions in the Sobolev spaces Wm,p or even in some weighted Sobolve spaces still hold. That is, the usual additional restrictions that is bounded or has the uniform cone property are both removed. The main tools used are polynomial inequalities, by which it is also ob- tained pointwise version inter polation inequalities for smooth and analytic functions. Such pointwise version in - equalities give explicit decay estimates for derivatives at infinity in unbounded domains which have the cone property. As an application of the decay ertimates, a previous result on radial basis function approximation of smooth functions is extended to the derivative-simultaneous approximation.     

Approximation of tricomi problem with Neumann boundary condition

Summary The Tricomi problem with Neumann boundary condition is reduced to a degenerate problem in the elliptic region with a non-local boundary condition and to a Cauchy problem in the hyperbolic region. A variational formulation is given to the elliptic problem and a finite element approximation is studied. Also some regularity results in weighted Sobolev spaces are discussed.     

Harmonic vibration of prismatic shells in zero approximation of Vekua's hierarchical models

In this article elastic cusped symmetric prismatic shells (i.e., plates of variable thickness with cusped edges) in the zero approximation of I.Vekua's hierarchical models is considered. The well-posedness of the boundary value problems (BVPs) under the reasonable boundary conditions at the cusped edge and given displacements at the non-cusped edge is studied in the case of harmonic vibration. The approach works also for non-symmetric prismatic shells word for word. The classical and weak setting of the BVPs in the case of the zero approximation of hierarchical models is considered. Appropriate weighted functional spaces are introduced. Uniqueness and existence results for the variational problem are proved. The structure of the constructed weighted space is described and its connection with weighted Sobolev spaces is established. Moreover, some sufficient conditions for a linear functional arising in the right-hand side of the variational equation to be bounded are given.     

Global solvability for the Kirchhoff equations in exterior domains of dimension larger than three

We consider the unique global solvability of initial (boundary) value problem for the Kirchhoff equations in exterior domains or in the whole Euclidean space for dimension larger than three. The following sufficient condition is known: initial data is sufficiently small in some weighted Sobolev spaces for the whole space case; the generalized Fourier transform of the initial data is sufficiently small in some weighted Sobolev spaces for the exterior domain case. The purpose of this paper is to give sufficient conditions on the usual Sobolev norm of the initial data, by showing that the global solvability for this equation follows from a time decay estimate of the solution of the linear wave equation. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An efficient spectral method and rigorous error analysis based on dimension reduction scheme for fourth order problems

In this paper, we propose an effective spectral method based on dimension reduction scheme for fourth order problems in polar geometric domains. First, the original problem is decomposed into a series of one‐dimensional fourth order problems by polar coordinate transformation and the orthogonal properties of Fourier basis function. Then the weak form and the corresponding discrete scheme of each one‐dimensional fourth order problem are derived by introducing polar conditions and appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces. In addition, we define the projection operators in the weighted Sobolev space and give its approximation properties, and further prove the error estimation of each one‐dimensional fourth order problem. Finally, we provide some numerical examples, and the numerical results show the effectiveness of our algorithm and the correctness of the theoretical results.     

Graded mesh refinement and error estimates of higher order for DGFE solutions of elliptic boundary value problems in polygons

Error estimates for DGFE solutions are well investigated if one assumes that the exact solution is sufficiently regular. In this article, we consider a Dirichlet and a mixed boundary value problem for a linear elliptic equation in a polygon. It is well known that the first derivatives of the solutions develop singularities near reentrant corner points or points where the boundary conditions change. On the basis of the regularity results formulated in Sobolev–Slobodetskii spaces and weighted spaces of Kondratiev type, we prove error estimates of higher order for DGFE solutions using a suitable graded mesh refinement near boundary singular points. The main tools are as follows: regularity investigation for the exact solution relying on general results for elliptic boundary value problems, error analysis for the interpolation in Sobolev–Slobodetskii spaces, and error estimates for DGFE solutions on special graded refined meshes combined with estimates in weighted Sobolev spaces. Our main result is that there exist a local grading of the mesh and a piecewise interpolation by polynoms of higher degree such that we will get the same order O (h^α) of approximation as in the smooth case. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Mehods Partial Differential Eq, 2012     

Nonlocal Venttsel' diffusion in fractal‐type domains: Regularity results and numerical approximation

We study a nonlocal Venttsel' problem in a nonconvex bounded domain with a Koch‐type boundary. Regularity results of the strict solution are proved in weighted Sobolev spaces. The numerical approximation of the problem is carried out, and optimal a priori error estimates are obtained.     

Compact embeddings of Sobolev spaces with power weights perturbed by slowly varying functions

We study compact embeddings of weighted Sobolev spaces into Lebesgue spaces on the unit ball in . The weight is of slowly varyingly disturbed polynomial growth with a singularity at the origin. It extends 21 , 27 to a wider class of weights. Special attention is paid to the influence of the growth rate of the weight on the quality of compactness, measured in terms of entropy and approximation numbers. In case of Hilbert spaces, the results are related to the distribution of eigenvalues of some degenerate elliptic operators.     

Interpolation inequalities and decay estimates for derivatives

Under the only assumption of the cone property for a given domain Ω⊂R ⁿ, it is proved that interpolation inequalities for intermediate derivatives of functions in the Sobolev spaces W^m,p (Ω) or even in some weighted Sobolve spaces W _w ^m,p (Ω) still hold. That is, the usual additional restrictions that Ω is bounded or has the uniform cone property are both removed. The main tools used are polynomial inequalities, by which it is also obtained pointwise version interpolation inequalities for smooth and analytic functions. Such pointwise version inequalities give explicit decay estimates for derivatives at infinity in unbounded domains which have the cone property. As an application of the decay estimates, a previous result on radial basis function approximation of smooth functions is extended to the derivative-simultaneous approximation.     

Entropy and approximation numbers of limiting embeddings; an approach via Hardy inequalities and quadratic forms

This paper deals with entropy numbers and approximation numbers for compact embeddings of weighted Sobolev spaces into Lebesgue spaces in limiting situations. This work is based on related Hardy inequalities and the spectral theory of some degenerate elliptic operators.     

关于变指数加权Sobolev空间的拟连续性

本文给出了一些关于变指数加权Sobolev空间拟连续性的精确刻画. 进而在拟连续的意义下得到变指数加权Sobolev空间唯一性结果.     

General interface problems—I

We study transmission problems for elliptic operators of order 2m with general boundary and interface conditions, introducing new covering conditions. This allows to prove solvability, regularity and asymptotics of solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces. We give some numerical examples for the location of the singular exponents.     

On the finite element method for elliptic problems with degenerate and singular coefficients

We consider Dirichlet boundary value problems for second order elliptic equations over polygonal domains. The coefficients of the equations under consideration degenerate at an inner point of the domain, or behave singularly in the neighborhood of that point. This behavior may cause singularities in the solution. The solvability of the problems is proved in weighted Sobolev spaces, and their approximation by finite elements is studied. This study includes regularity results, graded meshes, and inverse estimates. Applications of the theory to some problems appearing in quantum mechanics are given. Numerical results are provided which illustrate the theory and confirm the predicted rates of convergence of the finite element approximations for quasi-uniform meshes.

     

Multilevel preconditioning — Appending boundary conditions by Lagrange multipliers

For saddle point problems stemming from appending essential boundary conditions in connection with Galerkin methods for elliptic boundary value problems, a class of multilevel preconditioners is developed. The estimates are based on the characterization of Sobolev spaces on the underlying domain and its boundary in terms of weighted sequence norms relative to corresponding multilevel expansions. The results indicate how the various ingredients of a typical multilevel framework affect the growth rate of the condition numbers. In particular, it is shown how to realize even condition numbers that are uniformly bounded independently of the discretization.These investigations are motivated by the idea of employing nested refinable shift-invariant spaces as trial spaces covering various types of wavelets that are of advantage for the solution of boundary value problems from other points of view. Instead of incorporating the boundary conditions into the approximation spaces in the Galerkin formulation, they are appended by means of Lagrange multipliers leading to a saddle point problem.The work of the author is partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grant numbers Ku1028/1-1 and Pr336/4-1.     

Wavelet Approximation in Weighted Sobolev Spaces of Mixed Order with Applications to the Electronic Schr?dinger Equation

We study the approximation of functions in weighted Sobolev spaces of mixed order by anisotropic tensor products of biorthogonal, compactly supported wavelets. As a main result, we characterize these spaces in terms of wavelet coefficients, which also enables us to explicitly construct approximations. In particular, we derive approximation rates for functions in exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces discretized on optimized general sparse grids. Under certain regularity assumptions, the rate of convergence is independent of the number of dimensions. We apply these results to the electronic Schr?dinger equation and obtain a convergence rate which is independent of the number of electrons; numerical results for the helium atom are presented.     

Spectral problems on arbitrary open subsets of Rn involving the distance to the boundary

We consider Sobolev spaces weighted by means of powers of the distance function, analyse their embeddings from the standpoint of approximation numbers, and give upper and lower estimates for the spectral counting function for naturally associated elliptic operators.     

Integral potential method for a transmission problem with Lipschitz interface in \mathbb{R}^{3} for the Stokes and Darcy–Forchheimer–Brinkman PDE systems

The purpose of this paper is to obtain existence and uniqueness results in weighted Sobolev spaces for transmission problems for the nonlinear Darcy–Forchheimer–Brinkman system and the linear Stokes system in two complementary Lipschitz domains in \({\mathbb{R}^{3}}\), one of them is a bounded Lipschitz domain \({\Omega}\) with connected boundary, and the other one is the exterior Lipschitz domain \({\mathbb{R}^{3} \setminus \overline{\Omega }}\). We exploit a layer potential method for the Stokes and Brinkman systems combined with a fixed point theorem in order to show the desired existence and uniqueness results, whenever the given data are suitably small in some weighted Sobolev spaces and boundary Sobolev spaces.     

Some equivalent definitions of high order Sobolev spaces on stratified groups and generalizations to metric spaces

Recently, in the article [LW], the authors use the notion of polynomials in metric spaces of homogeneous type (in the sense of Coifman-Weiss) to prove a relationship between high order Poincaré inequalities and representation formulas involving fractional integrals of high order, assuming only that is a doubling measure and that geodesics exist. Motivated by this and by recent work in [H], [FHK], [KS] and [FLW] about first order Sobolev spaces in metric spaces, we define Sobolev spaces of high order in such metric spaces . We prove that several definitions are equivalent if functions of polynomial type exist. In the case of stratified groups, where polynomials do exist, we show that our spaces are equivalent to the Sobolev spaces defined by Folland and Stein in [FS]. Our results also give some alternate definitions of Sobolev spaces in the classical Euclidean case. Received: 10 February 1999 / Published online: 1 February 2002     

一种修正的拟Grünwald插值在Orlicz空间内的逼近度

修正了以第二类Chebyshev多项式的零点为插值结点组的拟Grünwald插值多项式,使之转化为积分形式,并利用不等式技巧和Hardy-Littlewood极大函数的方法,研究了此积分型拟Grünwald插值算子在带权Orlicz空间内的逼近问题,得出了意义相对广泛的逼近度估计的结果.     

一种修正的拟Grünwald插值在Orlicz空间内的逼近度

修正了以第二类Chebyshev多项式的零点为插值结点组的拟Grünwald插值多项式,使之转化为积分形式,并利用不等式技巧和Hardy-Littlewood极大函数的方法,研究了此积分型拟Grünwald插值算子在带权Orlicz空间内的逼近问题,得出了意义相对广泛的逼近度估计的结果.