Weighted Hardy inequalities

For bounded Lipschitz domains D in it is known that if 1<p<∞, then for all β[0,β₀), where β₀=p−1>0, there is a constant c<∞ with

for all . We show that if D is merely assumed to be a bounded domain in that satisfies a Whitney cube-counting condition with exponent λ and has plump complement, then the same inequality holds with β₀ now taken to be . Further, we extend the known results (see [H. Brezis, M. Marcus, Hardy's inequalities revisited, Dedicated to Ennio De Giorgi, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4) 25 (1997–1998) 217–237; M. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, A. Laptev, A geometrical version of Hardy's inequality, J. Funct. Anal. 189 (2002) 537–548; J. Tidblom, A geometrical version of Hardy's inequality for W^1,p(Ω), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004) 2265–2271]) concerning the improved Hardy inequality

c=c(n,p), by showing that the class of domains for which the inequality holds is larger than that of all bounded convex domains.     

Blow-up analysis for a system of heat equations with nonlinear flux which obey different laws

We consider a system of heat equations u_t=Δu and v_t=Δv in Ω×(0,T) completely coupled by nonlinear boundary conditions

We prove that the solutions always blow up in finite time for non-zero and non-negative initial values. Also, the blow-up only occurs on ∂Ω with

for p,q>0, 0≤α<1 and 0≤β<p.     

Peakons and periodic cusp wave solutions in a generalized Camassa–Holm equation

By using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to a generalized Camassa–Holm equation

m_t+c₀u_x+um_x+2mu_x=-γu_xxx

with m = u − α²u_xx, α ≠ 0, c₀, γ are constant, which is called CH-r equation, the existence of peakons and periodic cusp wave solutions is obtained. The analytic expressions of the peakons and periodic cusp wave solutions are given and numerical simulation results show the consistence with the theoretical analysis at the same time.     

MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR SCHR(O)DINGER EQUATIONS WITH MAGNETIC FIELD

The authors consider the semilinear SchrSdinger equation
-△Au＋Vλ（x）u= Q（x）｜u｜γ-2u in R^N,
where 1 〈 γ 〈 2＊ and γ≠ 2, Vλ= V^＋ -λV^-. Exploiting the relation between the Nehari manifold and fibrering maps, the existence of nontrivial solutions for the problem is discussed.     

Asymptotic behavior of Solutions for Hénon systems with nearly critical exponent

We consider in this paper the problem

(0.1)

where Ω is the unit ball in centered at the origin, 0α<pN, β>0, N8, p>1, q_ε>1. Suppose q_ε→q>1 as ε→0⁺ and q_ε,q satisfy respectively

we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the ground state solutions (u_ε,v_ε) of (0.1) as ε→0⁺. We show that the ground state solutions concentrate at a point, which is located at the boundary. In addition, the ground state solution is non-radial provided that ε>0 is small.     

Estimation of dimension functions of band-limited wavelets

The dimension function D_ψ of a band-limited wavelet ψ is bounded by n if its Fourier transform is supported in [−(2ⁿ⁺²/3)π,(2ⁿ⁺²/3)π]. For each and for each , 0<<δ=δ(n), we construct a wavelet ψ with supp

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such that D_ψ>n on a set of positive measure, which proves that [−(2ⁿ⁺²/3)π,(2ⁿ⁺²/3)π] is the largest symmetric interval for estimating the dimension function by n. This construction also provides a family of (uncountably many) wavelet sets each consisting of infinite number of intervals.     

Singular boundary value problems for the one-dimension p-Laplacian

The singular boundary value problem

where φ(s)=|s|^p−2s, p>1, is studied in this paper. The singularity may appear at u=0, t=0 and t=1, and the function g may change sign. The existence of solutions is obtained via an upper and lower solution method.     

A Bahri–Lions theorem revisited

In 1988, A. Bahri and P.L. Lions [A. Bahri, P.L. Lions, Morse-index of some min–max critical points. I. Application to multiplicity results, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 41 (1988) 1027–1037] studied the following elliptic problem:

where Ω is a bounded smooth domain of , 2<p<(2N−2)/(N−2) and f(x,u) is not assumed to be odd in u. They proved the existence of infinitely many solutions under an appropriate growth restriction on f. In the present paper, we improve this result by showing that under the same growth assumption on f the problem admits in fact infinitely many sign-changing solutions. In addition we derive an estimate on the number of their nodal domains. We also deal with the corresponding fourth order equation Δ²u=|u|^p−2u+f(x,u) with both Dirichlet and Navier boundary conditions, as well as with strongly coupled elliptic systems.     

Remark on a double-inequality for the Riemann zeta function

Let ζ be the Riemann zeta function and δ(x)=1/(2^x-1). For all x>0 we have

(1-δ(x))ζ(x)+αδ(x)<ζ(x+1)<(1-δ(x))ζ(x)+βδ(x),

with the best possible constant factors

This improves a recently published result of Cerone et al., J. Inequalities Pure Appl. Math. 5(2) (43) (2004), who showed that the double-inequality holds with and .     

Curves of positive solutions of boundary value problems on time-scales

Let TR be a time-scale, with a=infT, b=supT. We consider the nonlinear boundary value problem

(2)

(4)

u(a)=u(b)=0,

where λR₊:=[0,∞), and satisfies the conditions

We prove a strong maximum principle for the linear operator defined by the left-hand side of (1), and use this to show that for every solution (λ,u) of (1)–(2), u is positive on T a,b . In addition, we show that there exists λ_max>0 (possibly λ_max=∞), such that, if 0λ<λ_max then (1)–(2) has a unique solution u(λ), while if λλ_max then (1)–(2) has no solution. The value of λ_max is characterised as the principal eigenvalue of an associated weighted eigenvalue problem (in this regard, we prove a general existence result for such eigenvalues for problems with general, nonnegative weights).     

Nonexistence of backward self-similar blowup solutions to a supercritical semilinear heat equation

We consider a Cauchy problem for a semilinear heat equation

with p>p_S where p_S is the Sobolev exponent. If u(x,t)=(T−t)^−1/(p−1)φ((T−t)^−1/2x) for xR^N and t[0,T), where φ is a regular positive solution of

(P)

then u is called a backward self-similar blowup solution. It is immediate that (P) has a trivial positive solution κ≡(p−1)^−1/(p−1) for all p>1. Let p_L be the Lepin exponent. Lepin obtained a radial regular positive solution of (P) except κ for p_S<p<p_L. We show that there exist no radial regular positive solutions of (P) which are spatially inhomogeneous for p>p_L.     

Existence of periodic solutions for a fourth-order -Laplacian equation with a deviating argument

In this paper, we study the existence of periodic solutions for a fourth-order p-Laplacian differential equation with a deviating argument as follows:

[φ_p(u^″(t))]^″+f(u^″(t))+g(u(t−τ(t)))=e(t).

Under various assumptions, the existence of periodic solutions of the problem is obtained by applying Mawhin’s continuation theorem.     

Nonradial large solutions of sublinear elliptic problems

Let p be a nonnegative locally bounded function on , N3, and 0<γ<1. Assuming that the oscillation sup_|x|=rp(x)−inf_|x|=rp(x) tends to zero as r→∞ at a specified rate, it is shown that the equation Δu=p(x)u^γ admits a positive solution in satisfying lim_|x|→∞u(x)=∞ if and only if

     

Bounds on margin distributions in learning problems

Let be a probability space and let P_n be the empirical measure based on i.i.d. sample (X₁,…,X_n) from P. Let be a class of measurable real valued functions on For define F_f(t):=P{ft} and F_n,f(t):=P_n{ft}. Given γ(0,1], define _n,γ(δ):=1/(n^1−γ/2δ^γ). We show that if the L₂(P_n)-entropy of the class grows as ^−α for some α(0,2), then, for all and all δ(0,Δ_n), Δ_n=O(n^1/2),

and

where and c(σ)↓1 as σ↓0 (the above inequalities hold for any fixed σ(0,1] with a high probability). Also, define

Then for all

uniformly in and with probability 1 (for the above ratio is bounded away from 0 and from ∞). The results are motivated by recent developments in machine learning, where they are used to bound the generalization error of learning algorithms. We also prove some more general results of similar nature, show the sharpness of the conditions and discuss the applications in learning theory.     

A note on perturbation of non-symmetric Dirichlet forms by signed smooth measures

This article discusses the perturbation of a non-symmetric Dirichlet form,(ε, D(ε)), by a signed smooth measure μ, whereμ=μ1 -μ2 with μ1 and μ2 being smooth measures. It gives a sufficient condition for the perturbed form (εμ, D(εμ)) (for some αo ≥ 0) to be a coercive closed form.     

Large time behavior for nonlinear higher order convection–diffusion equations

We study the large time asymptotic behavior, in L^p (1p∞), of higher derivatives D^γu(t) of solutions of the nonlinear equation

(1)

where the integers n and θ are bigger than or equal to 1, a is a constant vector in with . The function ψ is a nonlinearity such that and ψ(0)=0, and is a higher order elliptic operator with nonsmooth bounded measurable coefficients on . We also establish faster decay when .     

Existence of multiple positive solutions for nonlinear m-point boundary-value problems

In this paper, we afford some sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of multiple positive solutions for the nonlinear m-point boundary-value problem for the one-dimensional p-Laplacian

(φ_p(u^′))^′+f(t,u)=0, t(0,1),

     

BV solutions to a degenerate parabolic equation for image denoising

In this article, the authors consider equation ut = div(ψ(Гu)A(|Du|2)Du) -(u- I), where ψ is strictly positive and Г is a known vector-valued mapping, A: R → R is decreasing and A(s) ～ 1/√a as s → ∞. This kind of equation arises naturally from image denoising. For an initial datum I ∈ BVloc ∩ L∞, the existence of BV solutions to the initial value problem of the equation is obtained.     

Multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of quasilinear nonhomogeneous Neumann problems

In this paper we study the existence, nonexistence and multiplicity of positive solutions for nonhomogeneous Neumann boundary value problem of the type

where Ω is a bounded domain in with smooth boundary, 1<p<n,Δ_pu=div(|u|^p-2u) is the p-Laplacian operator, , , (x)0 and λ is a real parameter. The proofs of our main results rely on different methods: lower and upper solutions and variational approach.     

Long time behaviour for generalized complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

In this paper, the two-dimensional generalized complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGL)

u_t=ρu−Δφ(u)−(1+iγ)Δu−νΔ²u−(1+iμ)|u|^2σu+αλ₁(|u|²u)+β(λ₂)|u|²