Hölder estimates for viscosity solutions of equations of fractional <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplace type

We prove Hölder estimates for viscosity solutions of a class of possibly degenerate and singular equations modelled by the fractional p-Laplace equation

$$PV {\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}\frac{|u(x)-u(x + y)|^{p-2}(u(x) - u(x + y))}{|y|^{n+sp}}\,dy = 0},$$

where \({s \in (0,1)}\) and \({p > 2}\) or \({1/(1-s) < p < 2}\). Our results also apply for inhomogeneous equations with more general kernels, when p and s are allowed to vary with x, without any regularity assumption on p and s. This complements and extends some of the recently obtained Hölder estimates for weak solutions.

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> estimates for the Schrödinger type operators

Let L _k = (?Δ) ^k + V ^k be a Schrödinger type operator, where k ≥ 1 is a positive integer and V is a nonnegative polynomial. We obtain the L ^p estimates for the operators ?^2k L _k ^?1 and ? ^k L _k ^?1/2 .     

Homoclinic Solutions for <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">t</Emphasis>)-Laplacian–Hamiltonian Systems Without Coercive Conditions

In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for the following second-order p(t)-Laplacian–Hamiltonian systems

$$\frac{{\rm d}}{{\rm d}t}(|\dot{u}(t)|^{p(t)-2}\dot{u}(t))-a(t)|u(t)|^{p(t)-2}u(t)+\nabla W(t,u(t))=0,$$

where \({t \in \mathbb{R}}\), \({u \in \mathbb{R}^n}\), \({p \in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})}\) with p(t) > 1, \({a \in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})}\), \({W\in C^1(\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R})}\) and \({\nabla W(t,u)}\) is the gradient of W(t, u) in u. The point is that, assuming that a(t) is bounded in the sense that there are constants \({0<\tau_1<\tau_2<\infty}\) such that \({\tau_1\leq a(t)\leq \tau_2 }\) for all \({t \in \mathbb{R}}\) and W(t, u) is of super-p(t) growth or sub-p(t) growth as \({|u|\rightarrow \infty}\), we provide two new criteria to ensure the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions, respectively. Recent results in the literature are extended and significantly improved.

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript>-Poincaré inequality for general symmetric forms

Lp Poincare inequalities for general symmetric forms are established by new Cheeger＇s isoperimetric constants. Lp super-Poincare inequalities are introduced to describe the equivalent conditions for the Lp compact embedding, and the criteria via the new Cheeger＇s constants for those inequalities are presented. Finally, the concentration or the volume growth of measures for these inequalities are studied.     

Convergence Theorems for ℓ<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>-Norm Minimizers with Respect to <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>

Let C be a fixed compact convex subset of and let x_p be the unique minimal _p-norm element in C for any . In this paper, we study the convergence of x_p as p or , respectively. We characterize also the limit point as the minimal element of C with respect to the lexical minimax order relation or the lexical minitotal order relation, respectively.Communicated by D. G. LuenbergerThe author thanks Professor H. Komiya for valuable advice and an anonymous referee for kind comments.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> boundedness of Calderón-Zygmund operators on product spaces

In this paper, we prove the product H^p boundedness of Calderón- Zygmund operators which were considered by Fefferman and Stein. The methods used in this paper are new even for the classical H^p boundedness of Calderón- Zygmund operators, namely, using some subtle estimates together with the H^p–L^p boundedness of product vector valued Calderón-Zygmund operators.This project was supported by the NNSF (No. 10271015 & No. 10310201047) of China and the second (corresponding) author was also supported by the RFDP (No. 20020027004) of China.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):42B20, 42B30, 42B25     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>∞</Superscript> norm estimates of the cost of the controllability for heat equations

This paper is concerned with the bound of the cost of approximate controllability and null controllability of heat equations, i.e., the minimal Lp norm and L∞ norm of a control needed to control the system approximately or a control needed to steer the state of the system to zero. The methods we use combine observability inequalities, energy estimates for heat equations and the dual theory.     

On Analytic Campanato and <Emphasis Type="Italic">F</Emphasis>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis>) Spaces

We investigate the relation between analytic Campanato spaces \(\mathcal {AL}_{p,s}\) and the spaces F(p, q, s), characterize the bounded and compact Riemann–Stieltjes operators from \(\mathcal {AL}_{p,s}\) to \(F(p,p-s-1,s)\). We also describe the corona theorem and the interpolating sequences for the class \(F(p,p-2,s)\), which is the Möbius invariant subspace of the analytic Besov type spaces \(B_p(s)\).     

Supersymmetry-inspired low-energy <Emphasis Type="Italic">α</Emphasis>–<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> elastic scattering phases

We consider an effective potential model consisting of an electromagnetic part plus a nuclear part as the ground state interaction for an α–p system. The next few higher partial wave interactions are generated using the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. We adapt the phase function method to compute α–p elastic scattering phases up to 12 MeV, including the effect of the electromagnetic interaction quite rigorously in our phase shift calculation. With the further incorporation of some energy-dependent correction factors to our interactions, we obtain a good agreement with the experimental data.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Adic valuation of the Morgan–Voyce sequence and <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-regularity

We characterize the p-adic valuation of the Morgan–Voyce sequence and its companion sequence. Further, we show that the p-adic valuation of the Morgan–Voyce sequence is a p-regular sequence and we determine its rank explicitly.     

Difference sets with <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> = 5<Emphasis Type="Italic"> p</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">r</Emphasis></Superscript>

Let D be a (v, k, λ)-difference set in an abelian group G, and (v, 31) = 1. If n = 5p ^r with p a prime not dividing v and r a positive integer, then p is a multiplier of D. In the case 31|v, we get restrictions on the parameters of such difference sets D for which p may not be a multiplier.      

On the regularity of scalar <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Harmonic functions in <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> dimensions with 2 ≤ <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> < <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>

Using Tilli’s technique [Cal Var 25(3):395–401, 2006], we shall give a new proof of the regularity of the local minima of the functional

$J\left( u\right) =\int\limits_{\Omega } \left\vert \partial u\right\vert^{p}\,dx$

with Ω a domain of class C ^{0, 1} in \({\mathbb{R}^{n}}\) and 2 ≤ p < n.

     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Adic Brownian motion over ℚ<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>

In this paper, we generalize the result of Bikulov and Volovich (1997) and construct a p-adic Brownian motion over ℚ _p . First, we construct directly a p-adic white noise over ℚ _p by using a specific complete orthonormal system of (ℚ _p ). A p-adic Brownian motion over ℚ _p is then constructed by the Paley-Wiener method. Finally, we introduce a p-adic random walk and prove a theorem on the approximation of a p-adic Brownian motion by a p-adic random walk.     

Poincaré inequality and Palais–Smale condition for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian

An improved Poincaré inequality and validity of the Palais-Smale condition are investigated for the energy functional on , 1 < p < ∞, where Ω is a bounded domain in , is a spectral (control) parameter, and is a given function, in Ω. Analysis is focused on the case λ = λ₁, where −λ₁ is the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet p-Laplacian Δ _p on , λ₁ > 0, and on the “quadratization” of within an arbitrarily small cone in around the axis spanned by , where stands for the first eigenfunction of Δ _p associated with −λ₁.     

Weak-Polynomial Convergence on Spaces ℓ<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>

This paper is concerned with the study of the set P ^-1(0), when P varies over all orthogonally additive polynomials on _p and L _p spaces. We apply our results to obtain characterizations of the weak-polynomial topologies associated to this class of polynomials.     

Solvability of Mixed Problems for the Klein–Gordon–Fock Equation in the Class <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript> for <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> ≥ 1

We prove that the mixed problem for the Klein–Gordon–Fock equation u _tt (x, t) ? u _xx (x, t) + au(x, t) = 0, where a ≥ 0, in the rectangle Q _T = [0 ≤ x ≤ l] × [0 ≤ t ≤ T] with zero initial conditions and with the boundary conditions u(0, t) = μ(t) ∈ L _p [0, T ], u(l, t) = 0, has a unique generalized solution u(x, t) in the class L _p (Q _T ) for p ≥ 1. We construct the solution in explicit analytic form.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>∞</Superscript> Estimates of solution for <Emphasis Type="Italic">m</Emphasis>-Laplacian parabolic equation with a nonlocal term

In this paper, we consider the global existence, uniqueness and L ^∞ estimates of weak solutions to quasilinear parabolic equation of m-Laplacian type u _t − div(|∇u| ^m−2∇u) = u|u| ^β−1 ∫_Ω |u| ^α dx in Ω × (0,∞) with zero Dirichlet boundary condition in tdΩ. Further, we obtain the L ^∞ estimate of the solution u(t) and ∇u(t) for t > 0 with the initial data u ₀ ∈ L ^q (Ω) (q > 1), and the case α + β < m − 1.     

The positive solutions to a quasi-linear problem of fractional <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian type without the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solution to a quasi-linear problem

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where \( (-\Delta )_{p}^{s} u(x)=2\lim \nolimits _{\epsilon \rightarrow 0}\int _{\mathbb {R}^N \backslash B_{\varepsilon }(X)} \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^{p-2} (u(x)-u(y))}{| x-y | ^{N+sp}}dy, \) \( x\in \mathbb {R}^N\) is a nonlocal and nonlinear operator and \( p\in (1,\infty )\), \( s \in (0,1) \), \( \lambda \in \mathbb {R} \), \( \Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N (N\ge 2)\) is a bounded domain which smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega \). Using the variational methods based on the critical points theory, together with truncation and comparison techniques, we show that there exists a critical value \(\lambda _{*}>0\) of the parameter, such that if \(\lambda >\lambda _{*}\), the problem \((P)_{\lambda }\) has at least two positive solutions, if \(\lambda =\lambda _{*}\), the problem \((P)_{\lambda }\) has at least one positive solution and it has no positive solution if \(\lambda \in (0,\lambda _{*})\). Finally, we show that for all \(\lambda \ge \lambda _{*}\), the problem \((P)_{\lambda }\) has a smallest positive solution.

     

Rational approximations of functions of Markov-Stieltjes type in Hardy spaces <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript>, 0 < <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> ≤ ∞

Orders of the best approximations for functions of Markov-Stieltjes type in the space H ^p are considered in the case of intersection of the measure support and the boundary of a unit circle. The results of J.-E. Andersson for functions with a singularity at a single point of a unit circumference are extended to the case of two singularities on that circumference.