Quasilinear elliptic equations in \mathbb{R }^{N} via variational methods and Orlicz-Sobolev embeddings

In this paper we prove the existence of a nontrivial non-negative radial solution for the quasilinear elliptic problem $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} -\nabla \cdot \left[\phi ^{\prime }(|\nabla u|^2)\nabla u \right] +|u|^{\alpha -2}u =|u|^{s-2} u,&x\in \mathbb{R }^{N},\\ u(x) \rightarrow 0, \quad \text{ as} |x|\rightarrow \infty , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where $N\ge 2, \phi (t)$ behaves like $t^{q/2}$ for small $t$ and $t^{p/2}$ for large $t, 1< p<q<N, 1<\alpha \le p^* q^{\prime }/p^{\prime }$ and $\max \{q,\alpha \}< s<p^*,$ being $p^*=\frac{pN}{N-p}$ and $p^{\prime }$ and $q^{\prime }$ the conjugate exponents, respectively, of $p$ and $q$ . Our aim is to approach the problem variationally by using the tools of critical points theory in an Orlicz-Sobolev space. A multiplicity result is also given.     

Semiclassical limits of ground state solutions to Schrödinger systems

This paper is concerned with the existence and concentration properties of the ground state solutions to the following coupled Schrödinger systems $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\varepsilon ^2\varDelta u+u+V(x)v=W(x)G_{v}(z)~\hbox { in }\ {\mathbb {R}}^N,\\ -\varepsilon ^2\varDelta v+v+V(x)u=W(x)G_{u}(z)~\hbox {in } \ {\mathbb {R}}^N,\\ u(x)\rightarrow 0\ \hbox {and }v(x)\rightarrow 0\ \hbox {as } \ |x|\rightarrow \infty , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ and $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\varepsilon ^2\varDelta u+u+V(x)v=W(x)(G_{v}(z)+|z|^{2^*-2}v)~\hbox {in } \ {\mathbb {R}}^N,\\ -\varepsilon ^2\varDelta v+v+V(x)u=W(x)(G_{u}(z)+|z|^{2^*-2}u)~\hbox {in } \ {\mathbb {R}}^N,\\ u(x)\rightarrow 0\ \hbox {and }v(x)\rightarrow 0\ \hbox {as } \ |x|\rightarrow \infty , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where \(z=(u,v)\in {\mathbb {R}}^2\) , \(G\) is a power type nonlinearity, having superquadratic growth at both \(0\) and infinity but subcritical, \(V\) can be sign-changing and \(\inf W>0\) . We prove the existence, exponential decay, \(H^2\) -convergence and concentration phenomena of the ground state solutions for small \(\varepsilon >0\) .     

Shellability of the higher pinched Veronese posets

The pinched Veronese poset \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) is the poset with ground set consisting of all nonnegative integer vectors of length \(n\) such that the sum of their coordinates is divisible by \(n\) with exception of the vector \((1,\ldots ,1)\) . For two vectors \(\mathbf {a}\) and \(\mathbf {b}\) in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) , we have \(\mathbf {a}\preceq \mathbf {b}\) if and only if \(\mathbf {b}- \mathbf {a}\) belongs to the ground set of \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) . We show that every interval in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) is shellable for \(n \ge 4\) . In order to obtain the result, we develop a new method for showing that a poset is shellable. This method differs from classical lexicographic shellability. Shellability of intervals in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) has consequences in commutative algebra. As a corollary, we obtain a combinatorial proof of the fact that the pinched Veronese ring is Koszul for \(n \ge 4\) . (This also follows from a result by Conca, Herzog, Trung, and Valla.)     

On Sharp Aperture-Weighted Estimates for Square Functions

Let \(S_{\alpha ,\psi }(f)\) be the square function defined by means of the cone in \({\mathbb R}^{n+1}_{+}\) of aperture \(\alpha \) , and a standard kernel \(\psi \) . Let \([w]_{A_p}\) denote the \(A_p\) characteristic of the weight \(w\) . We show that for any \(1<p<\infty \) and \(\alpha \ge 1\) , $$\begin{aligned} \Vert S_{\alpha ,\psi }\Vert _{L^p(w)}\lesssim \alpha ^n[w]_{A_p}^{\max \left( \frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{p-1}\right) }. \end{aligned}$$ For each fixed \(\alpha \) the dependence on \([w]_{A_p}\) is sharp. Also, on all class \(A_p\) the result is sharp in \(\alpha \) . Previously this estimate was proved in the case \(\alpha =1\) using the intrinsic square function. However, that approach does not allow to get the above estimate with sharp dependence on \(\alpha \) . Hence we give a different proof suitable for all \(\alpha \ge 1\) and avoiding the notion of the intrinsic square function.     

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.     

Distributions and the Global Operator of Slice Monogenic Functions

In this paper we consider functions \(f\) defined on an open set \(U\) of the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R }^{n+1}\) and with values in the Clifford Algebra \(\mathbb{R }_n\) . Slice monogenic functions \(f: U \subseteq \mathbb{R }^{n+1} \rightarrow \mathbb{R }_n\) belong to the kernel of the global differential operator with non constant coefficients given by \( \mathcal{G }=|{\underline{x}}|^2\frac{\partial }{\partial x_0} \ + \ {\underline{x}} \ \sum _{j=1}^n x_j\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}. \) Since the operator \(\mathcal{G }\) is not elliptic and there is a degeneracy in \( {\underline{x}}=0\) , its kernel contains also less smooth functions that have to be interpreted as distributions. We study the distributional solutions of the differential equation \(\mathcal{G }F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}})\) and some of its variations. In particular, we focus our attention on the solutions of the differential equation \( ({\underline{x}}\frac{\partial }{\partial x_0} \ - E)F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}}), \) where \(E= \sum _{j=1}^n x_j\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\) is the Euler operator, from which we deduce properties of the solutions of the equation \( \mathcal{G }F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}})\) .     

Existence and uniqueness of nontrivial solutions for eigenvalue boundary value problem of nonlinear fractional differential equation

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of a nontrivial solution to eigenvalue problems for the following nonlinear fractional differential equation of the form $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -D^{\alpha }_{0^{+}}u(t)=\lambda [f(t, u(t), D^{\beta }_{0^{+}}u(t))+g(t)],~~ 0 where \(\lambda \) is a parameter, \(D^{\alpha }_{0^{+}},D^{\beta }_{0^{+}}\) are two standard Riemann–Liouville fractional derivatives, \(0<\beta <1<\alpha \le 2,\alpha -\beta >1,f: [0,1]\times {\mathbb{R }}\times {\mathbb{R }}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R }}\) is continuous, and \(g(t): (0, 1)\rightarrow [0, +\infty )\) is Lebesgue integrable. We obtain several sufficient conditions of the existence and uniqueness of nontrivial solution of the above eigenvalue problems when \(\lambda \) is in some interval. Our approach is based on the Leray–Schauder nonlinear alternative. In addition, some examples are included to demonstrate the main result.     

Howe correspondence and Springer correspondence for real reductive dual pairs

We consider a real reductive dual pair (G′, G) of type I, with rank ${({\rm G}^{\prime}) \leq {\rm rank(G)}}$ . Given a nilpotent coadjoint orbit ${\mathcal{O}^{\prime} \subseteq \mathfrak{g}^{{\prime}{*}}}$ , let ${\mathcal{O}^{\prime}_\mathbb{C} \subseteq \mathfrak{g}^{{\prime}{*}}_\mathbb{C}}$ denote the complex orbit containing ${\mathcal{O}^{\prime}}$ . Under some condition on the partition λ′ parametrizing ${\mathcal{O}^{\prime}}$ , we prove that, if λ is the partition obtained from λ by adding a column on the very left, and ${\mathcal{O}}$ is the nilpotent coadjoint orbit parametrized by λ, then ${\mathcal{O}_\mathbb{C}= \tau (\tau^{\prime -1}(\mathcal{O}_\mathbb{C}^{\prime}))}$ , where ${\tau, \tau^{\prime}}$ are the moment maps. Moreover, if ${chc(\hat\mu_{\mathcal{O}^{\prime}}) \neq 0}$ , where chc is the infinitesimal version of the Cauchy-Harish-Chandra integral, then the Weyl group representation attached by Wallach to ${\mu_{\mathcal{O}^{\prime}}}$ with corresponds to ${\mathcal{O}_\mathbb{C}}$ via the Springer correspondence.     

Layer solutions for the fractional Laplacian on hyperbolic space: existence,uniqueness and qualitative properties

We investigate the equation $$\begin{aligned} (-\Delta _{\mathbb{H }^n})^{\gamma } w=f(w)\quad \text{ in } \mathbb{H }^{n}, \end{aligned}$$ where \((-\Delta _{\mathbb{H }^n})^\gamma \) corresponds to the fractional Laplacian on hyperbolic space for \(\gamma \in (0,1)\) and \(f\) is a smooth nonlinearity that typically comes from a double well potential. We prove the existence of heteroclinic connections in the following sense; a so-called layer solution is a smooth solution of the previous equation converging to \(\pm 1\) at any point of the two hemispheres \(S_\pm \subset \partial _\infty \mathbb{H }^n\) and which is strictly increasing with respect to the signed distance to a totally geodesic hyperplane \(\Pi \) . We prove that under additional conditions on the nonlinearity uniqueness holds up to isometry. Then we provide several symmetry results and qualitative properties of the layer solutions. Finally, we consider the multilayer case, at least when \(\gamma \) is close to one.     

The Hardy–Rellich Inequality and Uncertainty Principle on the Sphere

Let \(\Delta _0\) be the Laplace–Beltrami operator on the unit sphere \(\mathbb {S}^{d-1}\) of \({\mathbb R}^d\) . We show that the Hardy–Rellich inequality of the form $$\begin{aligned} \mathop \int \limits _{\mathbb {S}^{d-1}} \left| f (x)\right| ^2 \mathrm{d}{\sigma }(x) \le c_d \min _{e\in \mathbb {S}^{d-1}} \mathop \int \limits _{\mathbb {S}^{d-1}} (1- {\langle }x, e {\rangle }) \left| (-\Delta _0)^{\frac{1}{2}}f(x) \right| ^2 \mathrm{d}{\sigma }(x) \end{aligned}$$ holds for \(d =2\) and \(d \ge 4\) but does not hold for \(d=3\) with any finite constant, and the optimal constant for the inequality is \(c_d = 8/(d-3)^2\) for \(d =2, 4, 5,\) and, under additional restrictions on the function space, for \(d\ge 6\) . This inequality yields an uncertainty principle of the form $$\begin{aligned} \min _{e\in \mathbb {S}^{d-1}} \mathop \int \limits _{\mathbb {S}^{d-1}} (1- {\langle }x, e {\rangle }) |f(x)|^2 \mathrm{d}{\sigma }(x) \mathop \int \limits _{\mathbb {S}^{d-1}}\left| \nabla _0 f(x)\right| ^2 \mathrm{d}{\sigma }(x) \ge c'_d \end{aligned}$$ on the sphere for functions with zero mean and unit norm, which can be used to establish another uncertainty principle without zero mean assumption, both of which appear to be new.     

Nonscattering solutions and blowup at infinity for the critical wave equation

We consider the critical focusing wave equation $(-\partial _t^2+\Delta )u+u^5=0$ in ${\mathbb{R }}^{1+3}$ and prove the existence of energy class solutions which are of the form $$\begin{aligned} u(t,x)=t^\frac{\mu }{2}W(t^\mu x)+\eta (t,x) \end{aligned}$$ in the forward lightcone $\{(t,x)\in {\mathbb{R }}\times {\mathbb{R }}^3: |x|\le t, t\gg 1\}$ where $W(x)=(1+\frac{1}{3} |x|^2)^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ is the ground state soliton, $\mu $ is an arbitrary prescribed real number (positive or negative) with $|\mu |\ll 1$ , and the error $\eta $ satisfies $$\begin{aligned} \Vert \partial _t \eta (t,\cdot )\Vert _{L^2(B_t)} +\Vert \nabla \eta (t,\cdot )\Vert _{L^2(B_t)}\ll 1,\quad B_t:=\{x\in {\mathbb{R }}^3: |x|<t\} \end{aligned}$$ for all $t\gg 1$ . Furthermore, the kinetic energy of $u$ outside the cone is small. Consequently, depending on the sign of $\mu $ , we obtain two new types of solutions which either concentrate as $t\rightarrow \infty $ (with a continuum of rates) or stay bounded but do not scatter. In particular, these solutions contradict a strong version of the soliton resolution conjecture.     

Beyond the Trudinger-Moser supremum

Let Ω be a bounded, smooth domain in ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ . We consider the functional $$I(u) = \int_\Omega e^{u^2}\,dx$$ in the supercritical Trudinger-Moser regime, i.e. for ${\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2dx > 4\pi}$ . More precisely, we are looking for critical points of I(u) in the class of functions ${u \in H_0^1 (\Omega )}$ such that ${\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 \, dx = 4\, \pi \, k\, (1+\alpha)}$ , for small α > 0. In particular, we prove the existence of 1-peak critical points of I(u) with ${\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2dx = 4\pi(1 + \alpha)}$ for any bounded domain Ω, 2-peak critical points with ${\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2dx = 8\pi(1 + \alpha)}$ for non-simply connected domains Ω, and k-peak critical points with ${\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 dx = 4k \pi(1 + \alpha)}$ if Ω is an annulus.     

Nonexistence of Positive Solutions for an Integral Equation Related to the Hardy-Sobolev Inequality

Let α and s be real numbers satisfying 0<s<α<n. We are concerned with the integral equation $$u(x)=\int_{R^n}\frac{u^p(y)}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}|y|^s}dy, $$ where \(\frac{n-s}{n-\alpha}< p< \alpha^{*}(s)-1\) with \(\alpha^{*}(s)=\frac{2(n-s)}{n-\alpha}\) . We prove the nonexistence of positive solutions for the equation and establish the equivalence between the above integral equation and the following partial differential equation $$\begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}u(x)=|x|^{-s}u^p. \end{aligned}$$      

{\mathcal{C}^{\alpha}}-regularity for a class of non-diagonal elliptic systems with p-growth

We consider weak solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems in a W ^1,p -setting which arise as Euler equations to certain variational problems. The solutions are assumed to be stationary in the sense that the differential of the variational integral vanishes with respect to variations of the dependent and independent variables. We impose new structure conditions on the coefficients which yield everywhere ${\mathcal{C}^{\alpha}}$ -regularity and global ${\mathcal{C}^{\alpha}}$ -estimates for the solutions. These structure conditions cover variational integrals like ${\int F(\nabla u)\; dx}$ with potential ${F(\nabla u):=\tilde F (Q_1(\nabla u),\ldots, Q_N(\nabla u))}$ and positively definite quadratic forms in ${\nabla u}$ defined as ${Q_i(\nabla u)=\sum_{\alpha \beta} a_i^{\alpha \beta} \nabla u^\alpha \cdot \nabla u^\beta}$ . A simple example consists in ${\tilde F(\xi_1,\xi_2):= |\xi_1|^{\frac{p}{2}} + |\xi_2|^{\frac{p}{2}}}$ or ${\tilde F(\xi_1,\xi_2):= |\xi_1|^{\frac{p}{4}}|\xi_2|^{\frac{p}{4}}}$ . Since the Q _i need not to be linearly dependent our result covers a class of nondiagonal, possibly nonmonotone elliptic systems. The proof uses a new weighted norm technique with singular weights in an L ^p -setting.     

Boundary Values of Harmonic Functions in Spaces of Triebel–Lizorkin Type

Triebel (J Approx Theory 35:275–297, 1982; 52:162–203, 1988) investigated the boundary values of the harmonic functions in spaces of the Triebel–Lizorkin type ${\mathcal F^{\alpha,q}_{p}}$ on ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+}$ by finding an characterization of the homogeneous Triebel–Lizorkin space ${{\bf \dot{F}}^{\alpha,q}_p}$ via its harmonic extension, where ${0 < p < \infty, 0 < q \leq \infty}$ , and ${\alpha < {\rm min}\{-n/p, -n/q\}}$ . In this article, we extend Triebel’s result to α < 0 and ${0 < p, q \leq \infty}$ by using a discrete version of reproducing formula and discretizing the norms in both ${\mathcal{F}^{\alpha,q}_{p}}$ and ${{\bf{\dot{F}}}^{\alpha,q}_p}$ . Furthermore, for α < 0 and ${1 < p,q \leq \infty}$ , the mapping from harmonic functions in ${\mathcal{F}^{\alpha,q}_{p}}$ to their boundary values forms a topological isomorphism between ${\mathcal{F}^{\alpha,q}_{p}}$ and ${{\bf \dot{F}}^{\alpha,q}_p}$ .     

Gaussian Integral Means of Entire Functions

For an entire function \(f:\mathbb C\mapsto \mathbb C\) and a triple \((p,\alpha , r)\in (0,\infty )\times (-\infty ,\infty )\times (0,\infty ]\) , the Gaussian integral mean of \(f\) (with respect to the area measure \(dA\) ) is defined by $$\begin{aligned} {\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(f,r)=\left( \,\, {\int \limits _{|z| Via deriving a maximum principle for \({\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(f,r)\) , we establish not only Fock–Sobolev trace inequalities associated with \({\mathsf M}_{p,p/2}(z^m f(z),\infty )\) (as \(m=0,1,2,\ldots \) ), but also convexities of \(r\mapsto \ln {\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(z^m,r)\) and \(r\mapsto {\mathsf M}_{2,\alpha <0}(f,r)\) in \(\ln r\) with \(0 .     

A priori estimates for Donaldson’s equation over compact Hermitian manifolds

In this paper we prove a priori estimates for Donaldson equation’s $$\begin{aligned} \omega \wedge (\chi +\sqrt{-1}\partial \bar{\partial }\varphi )^{n-1} =e^{F}(\chi +\sqrt{-1}\partial \bar{\partial }\varphi )^{n}, \end{aligned}$$ over a compact complex manifold \(X\) of complex dimension \(n\) , where \(\omega \) and \(\chi \) are arbitrary Hermitian metrics. Our estimates answer a question of Tosatti-Weinkove (Asian J. Math. 14:19–40, 2010).     

On a certain sum-product estimate in fields of prime order

Let Fp be the finite field of p elements with p prime.If A is a subset of Fp and g is an element of F*p with order ν,then max{|A + g·A|,|A·A|} (ν/(ν + |A|2) )1/12|A|13/12.