Local real analysis in locally homogeneous spaces

We introduce the concept of locally homogeneous space, and prove in this context L ^p and C ^α estimates for singular and fractional integrals, as well as L ^p estimates on the commutator of a singular or fractional integral with a BMO or VMO function. These results are motivated by local a priori estimates for subelliptic equations.     

Global estimates of fundamental solutions for higher-order Schr?dinger equations

In this paper we first establish global pointwise time-space estimates of the fundamental solution for Schr?dinger equations, where the symbol of the spatial operator is a real non-degenerate elliptic polynomial. Then we use such estimates to establish related L ^p ?CL ^q estimates on the Schr?dinger solution. These estimates extend known results from the literature and are sharp. This result was lately already generalized to a degenerate case (cf. [4]).     

Green function estimates for relativistic stable processes in half-space-like open sets

In this paper, we establish sharp two-sided estimates for the Green functions of relativistic stable processes (i.e. Green functions for non-local operators m−(m^2/α−Δ)^α/2) in half-space-like C^1,1 open sets. The estimates are uniform in m∈(0,M] for each fixed M∈(0,∞). When m↓0, our estimates reduce to the sharp Green function estimates for −(−Δ)^α/2 in such kind of open sets that were obtained recently in Chen and Tokle [12]. As a tool for proving our Green function estimates, we show that a boundary Harnack principle for X^m, which is uniform for all m∈(0,∞), holds for a large class of non-smooth open sets.     

Kolmogorov widths of Sobolev classes on an irregular domain

We establish asymptotic estimates for the Kolmogorov widths of Sobolev classes W _p ^s (K) in the metric of L _q (K) for a power-law peak K ? ? ^d . These estimates are sharp in the order and coincide with order estimates for the unit cube.     

A mostly elementary proof of Morrey space estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations with VMO coefficients

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in extending the well-known Calderon-Zygmund estimates for the Laplacian to more general equations, in particular equations with highest order coefficients lying in the Sarason space VMO. In addition, the analogous estimates with Morrey spaces replacing Lebesgue spaces have been considered. These Morrey space estimates have been proved by refining the proofs for the L^p estimates. We shall show that the Morrey space estimates follow from the L^p estimates via an elementary argument which is very similar to that used by Campanato.     

Estimates for Green function and Poisson kernels of higher-order Dirichlet boundary value problems

Pointwise estimates are derived for the kernels associated to the polyharmonic Dirichlet problem on bounded smooth domains. As a consequence, one obtains optimal weighted L^p-L^q-regularity estimates for weights involving the distance function.     

Bilinear Fourier Restriction Theorems

We provide a general scheme for proving L ^p estimates for certain bilinear Fourier restrictions outside the local L ² setting. As an application, we show how such estimates follow for the lacunary polygon. In contrast with prior approaches, our argument avoids any use of the Rubio de Francia Littlewood?CPaley inequality.     

A scale-invariant Klein–Gordon model with time-dependent potential

The goal of the present paper is to derive statements about energy estimates as well as L ^p ?L ^q decay estimates for a Klein?CGordon model with a particular time-dependent mass. The study of this special case of a scale-invariant model is an important step within a systematic investigation of Klein?CGordon models with time-dependent mass.     

Pointwise inequalities of logarithmic type in Hardy-Hölder spaces

We prove some optimal logarithmic estimates in the Hardy space H ^∞(G) with Hölder regularity, where G is the open unit disk or an annular domain of ?. These estimates extend the results established by S.Chaabane and I.Feki in the Hardy-Sobolev space H ^k,∞ of the unit disk and those of I. Feki in the case of an annular domain. The proofs are based on a variant of Hardy-Landau-Littlewood inequality for Hölder functions. As an application of these estimates, we study the stability of both the Cauchy problem for the Laplace operator and the Robin inverse problem.     

Some weighted estimates for Littlewood-Paley functions and radial multipliers

We prove some weighted estimates for certain Littlewood-Paley operators on the weighted Hardy spaces H_w^p (0<p?1) and on the weighted L^p spaces. We also prove some weighted estimates for the Bochner-Riesz operators and the spherical means.     

Regularity of averages over hypersurfaces

Averages over smooth measures on smooth compact hypersurfaces inR ⁿ are studied. With assumptions on the decay of the Fourier transform of the measure we obtain mixed norm estimates for these means, for exampleL ^p estimates of multiparameter maximal functions over compact hypersurfaces.     

L 3/2-estimates of vector fields with L 1 curl in a bounded domain

This paper establishes the estimates of L ^3/2 norm of the vector fields in a bounded domain with vanishing tangential component on the boundary, in terms of the L ¹ norm of the curl, the negative exponent Sobolev norm of the divergence, and on some quantities depending on the topology of the domain. As the similar proof we also obtain the estimates of L ^p norm of the vector fields in terms of the negative exponent Sobolev norms of the curl and divergence.     

Nonlinear Korn Inequalities on a Hypersurface

The authors establish several estimates showing that the distance in W~(1,p),1 p ∞,between two immersions from a domain of R~n into R~(n+1) is bounded by the distance in L~p between two matrix fields defined in terms of the first two fundamental forms associated with each immersion. These estimates generalize previous estimates obtained by the authors and P. G. Ciarlet and weaken the assumptions on the fundamental forms at the expense of replacing them by two different matrix fields.     

Modulation space estimates for damped fractional wave equation

Instead of the L~p estimates,we study the modulation space estimates for the solution to the damped wave equation.Decay properties for both the linear and semilinear equations are obtained.The estimates in modulation space differ in many aspects from those in L~p space.     

Nonlinear functionals of the Boltzmann equation and uniform stability estimates

We present nonlinear functionals measuring physical space variation and L¹-distance between two classical solutions for the Boltzmann equation with a cut-off inverse power potential. In the case that initial datum is a small, smooth perturbation of vacuum and decays fast enough in the phase space, we show that these functionals satisfy stability estimates which lead to BV-type estimates and a uniform L¹-stability.     

Wave equations with time-dependent dissipation I. Non-effective dissipation

The goal of this article is to construct structural representations of the solutions to Cauchy problems for weakly dissipative wave equations below scaling and to deduce estimates of the solution and its energy based on L^q(Rⁿ), q?2. Furthermore, the sharpness of the obtained estimates is discussed.     

Convergence and superconvergence analysis of an anisotropic nonconforming finite element methods for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems

The numerical approximation by a lower order anisotropic nonconforming finite element on appropriately graded meshes are considered for solving singular perturbation problems. The quasi-optimal order error estimates are proved in the ε-weighted H¹-norm valid uniformly, up to a logarithmic factor, in the singular perturbation parameter. By using the interpolation postprocessing technique, the global superconvergent error estimates in ε-weighted H¹-norm are obtained. Numerical experiments are given to demonstrate validity of our theoretical analysis.     

Asymptotic expansions for interior penalty solutions of control constrained linear-quadratic problems

We consider a quadratic optimal control problem governed by a nonautonomous affine ordinary differential equation subject to nonnegativity control constraints. For a general class of interior penalty functions, we provide a first order expansion for the penalized states and adjoint states around the state and adjoint state of the original problem. Our main argument relies on the following fact: if the optimal control satisfies strict complementarity conditions for its Hamiltonian except for a set of times with null Lebesgue measure, the functional estimates for the penalized optimal control problem can be derived from the estimates of a related finite dimensional problem. Our results provide several types of efficiency measures of the penalization technique: error estimates of the control for L ^s norms (s in [1, +∞]), error estimates of the state and the adjoint state in Sobolev spaces W ^1,s (s in [1, +∞)) and also error estimates for the value function. For the L ¹ norm and the logarithmic penalty, the sharpest results are given, by establishing an error estimate for the penalized control of order ${O(\varepsilon|\log\epsilon|)}$ where ${\varepsilon >0 }$ is the (small) penalty parameter.     

Error estimates of the finite element method for the exterior Helmholtz problem with a modified DtN boundary condition

A priori error estimates in the H¹- and L²-norms are established for the finite element method applied to the exterior Helmholtz problem, with modified Dirichlet-to-Neumann (MDtN) boundary condition. The error estimates include the effect of truncation of the MDtN boundary condition as well as that of discretization of the finite element method. The error estimate in the L²-norm is sharper than that obtained by the author [D. Koyama, Error estimates of the DtN finite element method for the exterior Helmholtz problem, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 200 (1) (2007) 21-31] for the truncated DtN boundary condition.     

Estimates for some convolution operators with singularities in their kernels on a sphere with applications

We study convolution operators whose kernels have singularities on the unit sphere. For these operators we obtainH ^p -H ^q estimates, where p is less or equal q, and prove their sharpness. To this end, we develop a new method that uses special representations for the symbol of such operators as sums of certain oscillatory integrals and applies the stationary phase method and A. Miyachi results for model oscillating multipliers. Moreover, we also obtain estimates for operators from L ^p to BMO and those from BMO to BMO.