Nonlinear elliptic equations of order 2m and subdifferentials

LetA be an operator of the calculus of variations of order 2m onW ^m,p (Ω) andj a normal convex integrand. Forf ∈L ^p (Ω), the equation $$\mathcal{A}u + \partial j(x,u) \ni f, in \Omega , u - \phi \in W_0^{m,p} (\Omega ),$$ may have no strong solutions whenm>1, even ifj is independent ofx and φ=0. However, we obtain existence results whenj is everywhere finite and $$\int_\Omega {j(x,\phi ) dx< + \infty ,} $$ by the study of the subdifferential of the function $$\upsilon \mapsto \int_\Omega {j(x,\upsilon + \phi ) dx on W_0^{m,p} (\Omega ).} $$      

On the modulus of continuity in connection with a problem of J. Szabados concerning strong approximation

Пустьf(x) — интегрируемая 2π-периодическая функция, aω(f,δ) иs _n(x)=s_n(f, x). соответственно, модуль непрерывности иn-ая сумма Фурье этой функции. В настоящей работе, продолжающей исследования Г. Фрейда, Л. Лейндлера—E. M. Никищина, И. Сабадоша и К. И. Осколкова, доказывается следующая теорема.Если Ω(u) — выпуклая или вогнутая непрерывная функция и если (1) 1 $$\left\| {\left. {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^\infty \Omega (|S_k (x) - f(x)|)} \right\|_C } \right.$$ то 1 $$\omega (f;\delta ) = O\left( {\delta \int\limits_\delta ^1 {\frac{{\bar \Omega (v)}}{{v^2 }}dv} } \right),$$ где ¯Ω(v) —функция, обратная к Ω(и). При этом существует функция f₀(х), удовлетворяющая условию (1), для которой $$\omega (f;\delta ) = c\delta \int\limits_\delta ^1 {\frac{{\bar \Omega (v)}}{{v^2 }}dv} (c > 0).$$ ЕслиΩ(u)— вогнутая функция, то интеграл \(\int\limits_\delta ^1 {\frac{{\bar \Omega (v)}}{{v^2 }}dv} \) можно заменить на \(\int\limits_{\bar \Omega (\delta )}^1 {\frac{{du}}{{\Omega (u)}}.} \) . Отсюда вытекает, что еслиΩ(u) — функция типа модуля непрерывности, то для того, чтобы (1) всегда влекло принадлежность f(x) классу Lip 1, необходимо и достаточно условие \(\int\limits_0^1 {\frac{{du}}{{\Omega (u)}}}< \infty .\)      

A maximum modulus theorem for the Oseen problem

Classical solutions of the Oseen problem are studied on an exterior domain Ω with Ljapunov boundary in R ³. It is proved a maximum modulus estimate of the following form: If ${{\bf u}\in C^2(\Omega)^3\cap C^0(\overline \Omega)^3}$ and ${p \in C^1(\Omega ), -\Delta {\bf u}+2\lambda \partial_1 {\bf u}+\nabla p=0, \nabla \cdot {\bf u}=0}$ in Ω, and if ${|{\bf u}| \le M}$ on ${\partial \Omega , \limsup |{\bf u}({\bf x})|\le M}$ as ${|{\bf x}|\to \infty }$ , then ${|{\bf u}({\bf x})|\le c M}$ in Ω. Here the constant c depends only on Ω and λ.     

Asymptotics for the minimization of a Ginzburg-Landau functional

LetΩ ? ?² be a smooth bounded simply connected domain. Consider the functional $$E_\varepsilon (u) = \frac{1}{2}\int\limits_\Omega {\left| {\nabla u} \right|^2 + \frac{1}{{4\varepsilon ^2 }}} \int\limits_\Omega {(|u|^2 - 1)^2 } $$ on the classH _g ¹ ={u εH ¹(Ω; ?);u=g on ?Ω} whereg:?Ω? → ? is a prescribed smooth map with ¦g¦=1 on ?Ω? and deg(g, ?Ω)=0. Let uu _ε be a minimizer for E_ε onH _g ¹ . We prove that u_ε → u₀ in \(C^{1,\alpha } (\bar \Omega )\) as ε → 0, where u₀ is identified. Moreover \(\left\| {u_\varepsilon - u_0 } \right\|_{L^\infty } \leqslant C\varepsilon ^2 \) .     

Absolute tauberian conditions for absolute hausdorff and quasi-hausdorff methods

The purpose of this paper is to prove that for a large set of absolute Hausdorff and quasi-Hausdorff methods the condition $$\sum\limits_{k = 1}^\infty {\left| {\lambda _n a_n - \lambda _{n - 1} a_{n - 1} } \right|< } \infty $$ is a Tauberian condition, i.e., its fulfillment together with the absolute summability of \(\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {a_n } \) tos implies that \(\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\left| {a_n } \right|}< \infty \) and \(\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {a_n } = s.\) a _n =s.     

On functions whose symmetric part of gradient agree and a generalization of Reshetnyak’s compactness theorem

We consider the following question: Given a connected open domain ${\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n}$ , suppose ${u, v : \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n}$ with det ${(\nabla u) > 0}$ , det ${(\nabla v) > 0}$ a.e. are such that ${\nabla u^T(x)\nabla u(x) = \nabla v(x)^T \nabla v(x)}$ a.e. , does this imply a global relation of the form ${\nabla v(x) = R\nabla u(x)}$ a.e. in Ω where ${R \in SO(n)}$ ? If u, v are C ¹ it is an exercise to see this true, if ${u, v\in W^{1,1}}$ we show this is false. In Theorem 1 we prove this question has a positive answer if ${v \in W^{1,1}}$ and ${u \in W^{1,n}}$ is a mapping of L ^p integrable dilatation for p > n ? 1. These conditions are sharp in two dimensions and this result represents a generalization of the corollary to Liouville’s theorem that states that the differential inclusion ${\nabla u \in SO(n)}$ can only be satisfied by an affine mapping. Liouville’s corollary for rotations has been generalized by Reshetnyak who proved convergence of gradients to a fixed rotation for any weakly converging sequence ${v_k \in W^{1,1}}$ for which $$\int \limits_{\Omega} {\rm dist}(\nabla v_k, SO(n))dz \rightarrow 0 \, {\rm as} \, k \rightarrow \infty.$$ Let S(·) denote the (multiplicative) symmetric part of a matrix. In Theorem 3 we prove an analogous result to Theorem 1 for any pair of weakly converging sequences ${v_k \in W^{1,p}}$ and ${u_k \in W^{1,\frac{p(n-1)}{p-1}}}$ (where ${p \in [1, n]}$ and the sequence (u _k ) has its dilatation pointwise bounded above by an L ^r integrable function, r > n ? 1) that satisfy ${\int_{\Omega} |S(\nabla u_k) - S(\nabla v_k)|^p dz \rightarrow 0}$ as k → ∞ and for which the sign of the det ${(\nabla v_k)}$ tends to 1 in L ¹. This result contains Reshetnyak’s theorem as the special case (u _k ) ≡ Id, p = 1.     

Elliptische Differentialgleichungen mit variablen Koeffizienten in Gebieten mit unbeschränktem Rand

We discuss the spectrum of a symmetric elliptic differential operator A with domain \(\mathop {H^m }\limits^o (\Omega ) \cap H^{2m} (\Omega )\) in regions Ω with unbounded boundary \(\dot \Omega \) , where are \(\bar \Omega \) uniformely of class C^2m and on \(\dot \Omega \) the normal condition x·ν(x)≦μ for sufficient small positiveμ. We prove the A-priori-estimate \(\parallel u\parallel _{m,\Omega } \leqq c\parallel (l + r) (A - k)u\parallel _{o,\Omega } \) and show for all k>k, k≧0 suitable, there are no eigenvalues of A and by characterizing weighted Sobolev spaces with negative norm the existence of solutions \((l + r)_2 ^{ - 1} u \in \mathop H\limits^0{^m} (\Omega ) \cap H^{2m} (\Omega )\) of the equation (A?k)u=f, (1+r)f∈L²(Ω).     

Principal Eigenvalue of p-Laplacian Operator in Exterior Domain

We consider an eigenvalue problem of the form $$\left.\begin{array}{cl}-\Delta_{p} u = \lambda\, K(x)|u|^{p-2}u \quad \mbox{in}\quad \Omega^e\\ u(x) =0 \quad \mbox{for}\quad \partial \Omega\\ u(x) \to 0 \quad \mbox{as}\quad |x| \to \infty,\end{array} \right \}$$ where \({\Omega \subset \mathrm{I\!R\!}^N}\) is a simply connected bounded domain, containing the origin, with C ² boundary \({\partial \Omega}\) and \({\Omega^e:=\mathrm{I\!R\!^N} \setminus \overline{\Omega}}\) is the exterior domain, \({1 < p < N, \Delta_{p}u:={\rm div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u)}\) is the p-Laplacian operator and \({K \in L^{\infty}(\Omega^e) \cap L^{N/p}(\Omega^e)}\) is a positive function. Existence and properties of principal eigenvalue λ ₁ and its corresponding eigenfunction are established which are generally known in bounded domain or in \({\mathrm{I\!R\!}^N}\) . We also establish the decay rate of positive eigenfunction as \({|x| \to \infty}\) as well as near ?Ω.     

Uniqueness of diffusion operators and capacity estimates

Let Ω be a connected open subset of R ^d . We analyse L ₁-uniqueness of real second-order partial differential operators ${H = - \sum^d_{k,l=1} \partial_k c_{kl} \partial_l}$ and ${K = H + \sum^d_{k=1}c_k \partial_k + c_0}$ on Ω where ${c_{kl} = c_{lk} \in W^{1,\infty}_{\rm loc}(\Omega), c_k \in L_{\infty,{\rm loc}}(\Omega), c_0 \in L_{2,{\rm loc}}(\Omega)}$ and C(x) = (c _kl (x)) > 0 for all ${x \in \Omega}$ . Boundedness properties of the coefficients are expressed indirectly in terms of the balls B(r) associated with the Riemannian metric C ^?1 and their Lebesgue measure |B(r)|. First, we establish that if the balls B(r) are bounded, the Täcklind condition ${\int^\infty_R dr r({\rm log}|B(r)|)^{-1} = \infty}$ is satisfied for all large R and H is Markov unique then H is L ₁-unique. If, in addition, ${C(x) \geq \kappa (c^{T} \otimes c)(x)}$ for some ${\kappa > 0}$ and almost all ${x \in \Omega}$ , ${{\rm div} c \in L_{\infty,{\rm loc}}(\Omega)}$ is upper semi-bounded and c ₀ is lower semi-bounded, then K is also L ₁-unique. Secondly, if the c _kl extend continuously to functions which are locally bounded on ?Ω and if the balls B(r) are bounded, we characterize Markov uniqueness of H in terms of local capacity estimates and boundary capacity estimates. For example, H is Markov unique if and only if for each bounded subset A of ${\overline\Omega}$ there exist ${\eta_n \in C_c^\infty(\Omega)}$ satisfying , where ${\Gamma(\eta_n) = \sum^d_{k,l=1}c_{kl} (\partial_k \eta_n) (\partial_l \eta_n)}$ , and for each ${\varphi \in L_2(\Omega)}$ or if and only if cap(?Ω) = 0.     

Positive solutions of Schrödinger equations and fine regularity of boundary points

Given a Lipschitz domain Ω in ${{\mathbb R}^N}$ and a nonnegative potential V in Ω such that V(x) d(x, ?Ω)² is bounded we study the fine regularity of boundary points with respect to the Schrödinger operator L _V := Δ ? V in Ω. Using potential theoretic methods, several conditions are shown to be equivalent to the fine regularity of ${z \in \partial \Omega}$ . The main result is a simple (explicit if Ω is smooth) necessary and sufficient condition involving the size of V for ${z \in \partial \Omega}$ to be finely regular. An intermediate result consists in a majorization of ${\int_A \vert{\frac{ u} {d(.,\partial \Omega)}}\vert^2\, dx}$ for u positive harmonic in Ω and ${A \subset \Omega}$ . Conditions for almost everywhere regularity in a subset A of ?Ω are also given as well as an extension of the main results to a notion of fine ${\mathcal{ L}_1 \vert \mathcal{L}_0}$ -regularity, if ${\mathcal{L}_j = \mathcal{L} - V_j, V_0,\, V_1}$ being two potentials, with V ₀ ≤ V ₁ and ${\mathcal{L}}$ a second order elliptic operator.     

Singular limits solution for two-dimensional elliptic problems involving exponential nonlinearities with nonlinear gradient terms and singular weights

Given Ω bounded open regular set of ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ , ${q_1,\ldots, q_K \in \Omega}$ , ${\varrho : \Omega \longrightarrow [0,+\infty)}$ a regular bounded function and ${V: \Omega \longrightarrow [0,+\infty)}$ a bounded fuction. We give a sufficient condition for the model problem $$(P):\qquad-{\Delta}u -{\lambda}\varrho(x)|{\nabla}u|^2 = \varepsilon^{2}V(x)e^u$$ to have a positive weak solution in Ω with u = 0 on ?Ω, which is singular at each q _i as the parameters ${\varepsilon}$ and λ tend to 0, essentially when the set of concentration points q _i and the set of zeros of V are not necessarily disjoint.     

On p dependent boundedness of singular integral operators

We study the classical Calderón Zygmund singular integral operator with homogeneous kernel. Suppose that Ω is an integrable function with mean value 0 on S ¹. We study the singular integral operator $$T_\Omega f= {\rm p.v.} \, f * \frac {\Omega (x/|x|)}{|x|^2}.$$ We show that for α > 0 the condition $$\Bigg| \int \limits _{I} \Omega (\theta) \, d\theta \Bigg| \leq C |\log|I||^{-1-\alpha} \quad\quad\quad\quad (0.1)$$ for all intervals |I| < 1 in S ¹ gives L ^p boundedness of T _Ω in the range ${|1/2-1/p| < \frac \alpha {2(\alpha+1)}}$ . This condition is weaker than the conditions from Grafakos and Stefanov (Indiana Univ Math J 47:455–469, 1998) and Fan et al. (Math Inequal Appl 2:73–81, 1999). We also construct an example of an integrable Ω which satisfies (0.1) such that T _Ω is not L ^p bounded for ${|1/2-1/p| > \frac {3\alpha +1}{6(\alpha +1)}}$ .     

Remarks on eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a special elliptic system

LetΛ ₁(Ω) be the first eigenvalue of the vector-valued problem $$\begin{gathered} \Delta u + \alpha grad div u + \Delta u = 0 in \Omega , \hfill \\ u = 0 in \partial \Omega , \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ , withα>0. Letλ ₁(Ω) be the first eigenvalue of the scalar problem $$\begin{gathered} \Delta u + \lambda u = 0 in \Omega , \hfill \\ u = 0 on \partial \Omega . \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ . The paper contains a proof of the inequality $$\left( {1 + \frac{\alpha }{n}} \right)\lambda _1 \left( \Omega \right) > \Lambda _1 \left( \Omega \right) > \left( \Omega \right)$$ and improves recent estimates of Sprössig [15] and Levine and Protter [11]. Moreover we show, ifΩ is a ball, that an eigensolution u₁, associated withΛ ₁(Ω) is not unique and that the eigensolutions for this and higher eigenvalues are never rotationally invariant. Finally we calculate some eigensolutions explicitly.     

Quantization for an elliptic equation of order 2m with critical exponential non-linearity

On a smoothly bounded domain ${\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{2m}}$ we consider a sequence of positive solutions ${u_k\stackrel{w}{\rightharpoondown}0}$ in H ^m (Ω) to the equation ${(-\Delta)^m u_k=\lambda_k u_k e^{mu_k^2}}$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions, where 0 < λ _k → 0. Assuming that $$0 < \Lambda:=\lim_{k\to\infty}\int\limits_\Omega u_k(-\Delta)^m u_k dx < \infty,$$ we prove that Λ is an integer multiple of Λ₁ := (2m ? 1)! vol(S ^2m ), the total Q-curvature of the standard 2m-dimensional sphere.     

Infinitely many solutions for an elliptic problem involving critical Sobolev and Hardy–Sobolev exponents

We consider the following problem $$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll}-\Delta u = \mu |u|^\frac{4}{N-2}u + \frac{|u|^\frac{4-2s}{N-2}u}{|x|^{s}} + a(x)u, & x \in \Omega,\\ u=0, & {\rm on}\; \partial \Omega \end{array}\right.$$ where ${ \mu \ge 0, 0 < s < 2, 0 \in \partial \Omega}$ and Ω is a bounded domain in R ^N . We prove that if ${N \ge 7, a(0) > 0}$ and all the principle curvatures of ?Ω at 0 are negative, then the above problem has infinitely many solutions.     

A class of integral equations and approximation of p-Laplace equations

Let ${\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n}$ be a bounded domain, and let 1 < p < ∞ and σ < p. We study the nonlinear singular integral equation $$ M[u](x) = f_0(x)\quad {\rm in}\,\Omega$$ with the boundary condition u = g ₀ on ?Ω, where ${f_0\in C(\overline\Omega)}$ and ${g_0\in C(\partial\Omega)}$ are given functions and M is the singular integral operator given by $$M[u](x)={\rm p.v.} \int\limits_{B(0,\rho(x))} \frac{p-\sigma}{|z|^{n+\sigma}}|u(x+z)-u(x)|^{p-2} (u(x+z)-u(x))\,{\rm dz},$$ with some choice of ${\rho\in C(\overline\Omega)}$ having the property, 0 < ρ(x) ≤ dist (x, ?Ω). We establish the solvability (well-posedness) of this Dirichlet problem and the convergence uniform on ${\overline\Omega}$ , as σ → p, of the solution u _σ of the Dirichlet problem to the solution u of the Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplace equation νΔ _p u = f ₀ in Ω with the Dirichlet condition u = g ₀ on ?Ω, where the factor ν is a positive constant (see (7.2)).     

Global Existence and Blow-Up Results for a Classical Semilinear Parabolic Equation

The author studies the boundary value problem of the classical semilinear parabolic equations ut-△u = |u|p-1u inΩ×(0, T), and u = 0 on the boundary × [0, T) and u = φ at t = 0, where Rnis a compact C1domain, 1 < p ≤ p S is a fixed constant, and φ∈ C1 0(Ω) is a given smooth function. Introducing a new idea, it is shown that there are two sets W and Z, such that for φ∈ W, there is a global positive solution u(t) ∈ W with H1omega limit 0 and for φ∈ Z, the solution blows up at finite time.     

Power Majorization and Majorization of Sequences

Let \(\bar x\) , \(\bar y\ \in\ R_n\) be vectors which satisfy x₁ ≥ x₂ ≥ … ≥ x_n and y₁ ≥ y₂ >- … ≥ y_n and Σx_i = Σy_i. We say that \(\bar x\) is power majorized by \(\bar y\) if Σx_i ^p ≤ Σy_i ^p for all real p ? [0, 1] and Σx_i ^p ≥ Σy_i ^p for p ∈ [0, 1]. In this paper we give a classification of functions ? (which includes all possible positive polynomials) for which \(\bar\phi(\bar x) \leq \bar\phi(\bar y)\) (see definition below) when \(\bar x\) is power majorized \(\bar y\) . We also answer a question posed by Clausing by showing that there are vectors \(\bar x\) , \(\bar y\ \in\ R^n\) of any dimension n ≥ 4 for which there is a convex function ? such that \(\bar x\) is power majorized by \(\bar y\) and \(\bar\phi(\bar x)\ >\ \bar\phi(\bar y)\) .     

An inequality associated with the uncertainty principle

We prove \(\left\| F \right\|_{2,\Omega } \leqslant c({\rm T} \Omega )\left\| f \right\|_{A{}_T} \) , whereF is the Fourier transform off,||F||_2,Ω is theL ²-norm ofF on \([ - \Omega ,\Omega ],\left\| f \right\|_{A{}_T} \) is the absolutely convergent Fourier series norm for 2T-periodic functions, and $$c(T\Omega ) = (\frac{1}{\pi }\int\limits_{ - T\Omega }^{T\Omega } {\frac{{\sin ^2 \gamma }}{{\gamma ^2 }}d\gamma } )^{1/2} $$ Analogous inequalities, depending on prolate spheroidal wave functions, are more difficult to prove and their constants are less explicit.