Multi‐Trace Boundary Integral Formulation for Acoustic Scattering by Composite Structures

We study the scattering of an acoustic wave by an object composed of several adjacent parts with different material properties. For this problem we derive a new integral equation formulation of the first kind. This formulation involves two Dirichlet data and two Neumann data at each point of each material interface of the diffracting object. It is immune to spurious resonances, and it enjoys a stability property that ensures quasi‐optimal convergence of conforming Galerkin boundary element discretization. In addition, the operator of this formulation satisfies a relation similar to the standard Calderón identity. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Pointwise Convergence of the Calderón Reproducing Formula

In this paper, we study the pointwise convergence of the Calderón reproducing formula, which is also known as an inversion formula for wavelet transforms. We show that for every $f\in L_{w}^{p}(\mathbb {R}^{d})$ with an $\mathcal{A}_{p}$ weight w, 1??p<??, the integral is convergent at every Lebesgue point of f, and therefore almost everywhere. Moreover, we prove the convergence without any assumption on the smoothness of wavelet functions.     

The fast multipole method for the symmetric boundary integral formulation

^** Email: of{at}mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de^*** Email: o.steinbach{at}tugraz.at^**** Email: wendland{at}mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de A symmetric Galerkin boundary-element method is used for thesolution of boundary-value problems with mixed boundary conditionsof Dirichlet and Neumann type. As a model problem we considerthe Laplace equation. When an iterative scheme is employed forsolving the resulting linear system, the discrete boundary integraloperators are realized by the fast multipole method. While thesingle-layer potential can be implemented straightforwardlyas in the original algorithm for particle simulation, the double-layerpotential and its adjoint operator are approximated by the applicationof normal derivatives to the multipole series for the kernelof the single-layer potential. The Galerkin discretization ofthe hypersingular integral operator is reduced to the single-layerpotential via integration by parts. We finally present a correspondingstability and error analysis for these approximations by thefast multipole method of the boundary integral operators. Itis shown that the use of the fast multipole method does notharm the optimal asymptotic convergence. The resulting linearsystem is solved by a GMRES scheme which is preconditioned bythe use of hierarchical strategies as already employed in thefast multipole method. Our numerical examples are in agreementwith the theoretical results.     

Boundary element methods for variational inequalities

In this paper we present a priori error estimates for the Galerkin solution of variational inequalities which are formulated in fractional Sobolev trace spaces, i.e. in $\widetilde{H}^{1/2}(\Gamma )$ . In addition to error estimates in the energy norm we also provide, by applying the Aubin–Nitsche trick for variational inequalities, error estimates in lower order Sobolev spaces including $L_2(\Gamma )$ . The resulting discrete variational inequality is solved by using a semi-smooth Newton method, which is equivalent to an active set strategy. A numerical example is given which confirms the theoretical results.     

Calderón–Zygmund Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces

We study the boundedness of Calderón–Zygmund operators on weighted Hardy spaces $H^p_w$ using Littlewood-Paley theory. It is shown that if a Calderón–Zygmund operator T satisfies T ^*1?=?0, then T is bounded on $H^p_w$ for $w\in A_{p(1+\frac\varepsilon n)}$ and $\frac n{n+\varepsilon}<p\le1$ , where ε is the regular exponent of the kernel of T.     

Boundedness of Multilinear Caldern–Zygmund Singular Operators on Morrey–Herz Spaces with Variable Exponents

In this paper,we introduce Morrey–Herz spaces M K˙(·)q,p(·)(Rn) with variable exponents α(·) and p(·),and prove the boundedness of multilinear Caldern–Zygmund singular operators on the product of these spaces.     

Bergman and Calderón Projectors for Dirac Operators

For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$ , we give a new construction of the Calderón projector on $\partial\bar{X}$ and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of L ² harmonic spinors on $\bar{X}$ , and we analyze their Schwartz kernels. Our approach is based on the conformal covariance of $D_{\bar{g}}$ and the scattering theory for the Dirac operator associated with the complete conformal metric $g=\bar{g}/\rho^{2}$ where ρ is a smooth function on $\bar{X}$ which equals the distance to the boundary near $\partial\bar{X}$ . We show that $\frac{1}{2}(\operatorname{Id}+\tilde{S}(0))$ is the orthogonal Calderón projector, where $\tilde{S}(\lambda)$ is the holomorphic family in {?(λ)≥0} of normalized scattering operators constructed in Guillarmou et al. (Adv. Math., 225(5):2464–2516, 2010), which are classical pseudo-differential of order 2λ. Finally, we construct natural conformally covariant odd powers of the Dirac operator on any compact spin manifold.     

On an estimate of Calderón-Zygmund operators by dyadic positive operators

Given a general dyadic grid D and a sparse family of cubes S = {Q _j ^k ∈ D, define a dyadic positive operator A _D,S by $${A_{D,S}}f(x) = \sum\limits_{j,k} {{f_{Q_j^k}}{\chi _{Q_j^k}}} (x)$$ . Given a Banach function space X(? ⁿ ) and the maximal Calderón-Zygmund operator ${T_\natural }$ , we show that $${\left\| {{T_\natural}f} \right\|_X} \leqslant c(T,n)\mathop {\sup }\limits_{D,S} {\left\| {{A_{D,S}}|f|} \right\|_X}$$ This result is applied to weighted inequalities. In particular, it implies (i) the “twoweight conjecture” by D. Cruz-Uribe and C. Pérez in full generality; (ii) a simplification of the proof of the “A ₂ conjecture”; (iii) an extension of certain mixed A _p ?A _r estimates to general Calderón-Zygmund operators; (iv) an extension of sharp A ₁ estimates (known for T ) to the maximal Calderón-Zygmund operator $\natural $ .     

On the Neumann problem for PDE’s with a small parameter and the corresponding diffusion processes

The diffusion process in a region ${G \subset \mathbb R^2}$ governed by the operator ${\tilde L^\varepsilon = \frac{\,1}{\,2}\, u_{xx} + \frac1 {2\varepsilon}\, u_{zz}}$ inside the region and undergoing instantaneous co-normal reflection at the boundary is considered. We show that the slow component of this process converges to a diffusion process on a certain graph corresponding to the problem. This allows to find the main term of the asymptotics for the solution of the corresponding Neumann problem in G. The operator ${\tilde L^\varepsilon}$ is, up to the factor ε ^{? 1}, the result of small perturbation of the operator ${\frac{\,1}{\,2}\, u_{zz}}$ . Our approach works for other operators (diffusion processes) in any dimension if the process corresponding to the non-perturbed operator has a first integral, and the ε-process is non-degenerate on non-singular level sets of this first integral.     

On interpolation of noncommutative symmetric Hardy spaces

We proved the noncommutative analogue of Calderón’s result for fully symmetric spaces \(E_1\) and \(E_2\) on (0, 1) and for a finite von Neumann algebra \({{\mathcal {M}}}\). We also proved the noncommutative symmetric Hardy space’s analogue of Calderón’s result for fully symmetric spaces and for finite subdiagonal subalgebras.     

Bounds of Singular Integrals on Weighted Hardy Spaces and Discrete Littlewood–Paley Analysis

We apply the discrete version of Calderón??s reproducing formula and Littlewood?CPaley theory with weights to establish the $H^{p}_{w} \to H^{p}_{w}$ (0<p<??) and $H^{p}_{w}\to L^{p}_{w}$ (0<p??1) boundedness for singular integral operators and derive some explicit bounds for the operator norms of singular integrals acting on these weighted Hardy spaces when we only assume w??A _??. The bounds will be expressed in terms of the A _q constant of w if q>q _w =inf?{s:w??A _s }. Our results can be regarded as a natural extension of the results about the growth of the A _p constant of singular integral operators on classical weighted Lebesgue spaces $L^{p}_{w}$ in Hytonen et al. (arXiv:1006.2530, 2010; arXiv:0911.0713, 2009), Lerner (Ill.?J.?Math. 52:653?C666, 2008; Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 136(8):2829?C2833, 2008), Lerner et?al. (Int.?Math. Res. Notes 2008:rnm 126, 2008; Math. Res. Lett. 16:149?C156, 2009), Lacey et?al. (arXiv:0905.3839v2, 2009; arXiv:0906.1941, 2009), Petermichl (Am. J. Math. 129(5):1355?C1375, 2007; Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 136(4):1237?C1249, 2008), and Petermichl and Volberg (Duke Math. J. 112(2):281?C305, 2002). Our main result is stated in Theorem?1.1. Our method avoids the atomic decomposition which was usually used in proving boundedness of singular integral operators on Hardy spaces.     

Composition Operators on Spaces of Fractional Cauchy Transforms

For ?? > 0, the Banach space ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ is defined as the collection of functions f which can be represented as integral transforms of an appropriate kernel against a Borel measure defined on the unit circle T. Let ?? be an analytic self-map of the unit disc D. The map ?? induces a composition operator on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ if ${C_{\Phi}(f) = f \circ \Phi \in \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ for any function ${f \in \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ . Various conditions on ?? are given, sufficient to imply that C _?? is bounded on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ , in the case 0 < ?? < 1. Several of the conditions involve ???? and the theory of multipliers of the space ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ . Relations are found between the behavior of C _?? and the membership of ?? in the Dirichlet spaces. Conditions given in terms of the generalized Nevanlinna counting function are shown to imply that ?? induces a bounded composition operator on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ , in the case 1/2 ?? ?? < 1. For such ??, examples are constructed such that ${\| \Phi \|_{\infty} = 1}$ and ${C_{\Phi}: \mathcal{F}_{\alpha} \rightarrow \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ is bounded.     

Projection constants of symmetric spaces

We consider the problem of calculating the absolute projection constants λ(Xⁿ) of the symmetric n-dimensional spaces Xⁿ. We find an integral representation of the projectors belonging to a class sufficient for calculation of the projection constants. The formula so obtained is used to calculate the absolute projection constant of one of the Marcinkiewicz spaces and, by so doing, to give a negative answer to a question raised by Grünbaum concerning the asymptotic behavior of the quantity \(\lambda _n = \begin{array}{*{20}c} {\sup } \\ {X^n } \\ \end{array} \lambda (X^n ).\)      

New Wavelet Bases and Isometric Between Symbolic Operators Spaces $$ {\text{OP}}S^{m}_{{1,\delta }} $$ and Kernel Distributions Spaces

In the fifties, Calderón established a formal relation between symbol and kernel distribution, but it is difficult to establish an intrinsic relation. The Calderón-Zygmund (C-Z) school studied the C-Z operators, and Hörmander, Kohn and Nirenberg, et al. studied the symbolic operators. Here we apply a refinement of the Littlewood-Paley (L-P) decomposition, analyse under new wavelet bases, to characterize both symbolic operators spaces \({\text{OP}}S^{m}_{{1,\delta }} \) and kernel distributions spaces with other spaces composed of some almost diagonal matrices, then get an isometric between \({\text{OP}}S^{m}_{{1,\delta }} \) and kernel distribution spaces     

On the Riemann Boundary Value Problem for Null Solutions to Iterated Generalized Cauchy–Riemann Operator in Clifford Analysis

In this paper we consider a kind of Riemann boundary value problem (for short RBVP) for null solutions to the iterated generalized Cauchy–Riemann operator and the polynomially generalized Cauchy–Riemann operator, on the sphere of ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ with Hölder-continuous boundary data. Making full use of the poly-Cauchy type integral operator in Clifford analysis, we give explicit integral expressions of solutions to this kind of boundary value problems over the sphere of ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ . As special cases solutions of the corresponding boundary value problems for the classical poly-analytic and meta-analytic functions are also derived, respectively.     

The Boundedness of Calderón-Zygmund Operators by Wavelet Characterization

This article deals with the boundedness properties of Calderón-Zygmund operators on Hardy spaces Hp(Rn). We use wavelet characterization of Hp(Rn) to show that a Calderón-Zygmund operator T with T*1 = 0 is bounded on Hp(Rn), n/n+ε p ≤ 1, where ε is the regular exponent of kernel of T . This approach can be applied to the boundedness of operators on certain Hardy spaces without atomic decomposition or molecular characterization.     

Exponential decay estimates for singular integral operators

The following subexponential estimate for commutators is proved $$\begin{aligned} |\{x\in Q: |[b,T]f(x)|>tM^2f(x)\}|\le c\,e^{-\sqrt{\alpha \, t\Vert b\Vert _{BMO}}}\, |Q|, \qquad t>0. \end{aligned}$$ where $c$ and $\alpha $ are absolute constants, $T$ is a Calderón–Zygmund operator, $M$ is the Hardy Littlewood maximal function and $f$ is any function supported on the cube $Q\subset \mathbb{R }^n$ . We also obtain that $$\begin{aligned} |\{x\in Q: |f(x)-m_f(Q)|>tM_{\lambda _n;Q}^\#(f)(x) \}|\le c\, e^{-\alpha \,t}|Q|,\qquad t>0, \end{aligned}$$ where $m_f(Q)$ is the median value of $f$ on the cube $Q$ and $M_{\lambda _n;Q}^\#$ is Strömberg’s local sharp maximal function with $\lambda _n=2^{-n-2}$ . As a consequence we derive Karagulyan’s estimate: $$\begin{aligned} |\{x\in Q: |Tf(x)|> tMf(x)\}|\le c\, e^{-c\, t}\,|Q|\qquad t>0, \end{aligned}$$ from [21] improving Buckley’s theorem [3]. A completely different approach is used based on a combination of “Lerner’s formula” with some special weighted estimates of Coifman–Fefferman type obtained via Rubio de Francia’s algorithm. The method is flexible enough to derive similar estimates for other operators such as multilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators, dyadic and continuous square functions and vector valued extensions of both maximal functions and Calderón–Zygmund operators. In each case, $M$ will be replaced by a suitable maximal operator.     

Global integral gradient bounds for quasilinear equations below or near the natural exponent

We obtain sharp integral potential bounds for gradients of solutions to a wide class of quasilinear elliptic equations with measure data. Our estimates are global over bounded domains that satisfy a mild exterior capacitary density condition. They are obtained in Lorentz spaces whose degrees of integrability lie below or near the natural exponent of the operator involved. As a consequence, nonlinear Calderón–Zygmund type estimates below the natural exponent are also obtained for \(\mathcal{A}\) -superharmonic functions in the whole space ? ⁿ . This answers a question raised in our earlier work (On Calderón–Zygmund theory for p- and \(\mathcal{A}\) -superharmonic functions, to appear in Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, DOI 10.1007/s00526-011-0478-8) and thus greatly improves the result there.     

Smoothing of Commutators for a Hörmander Class of Bilinear Pseudodifferential Operators

Commutators of bilinear pseudodifferential operators with symbols in the Hörmander class $BS_{1, 0}^{1}$ and multiplication by Lipschitz functions are shown to be bilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators. A connection with a notion of compactness in the bilinear setting for the iteration of the commutators is also made.     

Solution of two problems on wavelets

We solve two problems on wavelets. The first is the nonexistence of a regular wavelet that generates a wavelet basis for the Hardy space ?²(?). The second is the existence, given any regular wavelet basis for $\mathbb{H}^2 (\mathbb{R})$ , of aMulti-Resolution Analysis generating the wavelet. Moreover, we construct a regular scaling function for this Multi-Resolution Analysis. The needed regularity conditions are very mild and our proofs apply to both the orthonormal and biorthogonal situations. Extensions to more general cases in dimension 1 and higher are given. In particular, we show in dimension larger than 2 that a regular wavelet basis for $\mathbb{L}^2 (\mathbb{R}^n )$ arises from a Multi-Resolution Analysis that is regular modulo the action of a unitary operator, which is whenn = 2 a Calderón-Zygmund operator of convolution type.