Fractional Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

We establish a full range of Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities and their variants for fractional Sobolev spaces.     

Several logarithmic Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities and applications

In this paper, based on the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities on the Euclidean space and the weighted Hölder inequality, we establish the logarithmic Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities and parameter type logarithmic Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities, and give applications for the weighted ultracontractivity of positive strong solutions to a kind of evolution equations. We also prove corresponding logarithmic Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities and parameter type logarithmic Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities on the Heisenberg group and related to generalized Baouendi–Grushin vector fields. Some applications are provided.     

Symmetry for extremal functions in subcritical Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

We use the formalism of the Rényi entropies to establish the symmetry range of extremal functions in a family of subcritical Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities. By extremal functions we mean functions that realize the equality case in the inequalities, written with optimal constants. The method extends recent results on critical Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities. Using heuristics given by a nonlinear diffusion equation, we give a variational proof of a symmetry result, by establishing a rigidity theorem: in the symmetry region, all positive critical points have radial symmetry and are therefore equal to the unique positive, radial critical point, up to scalings and multiplications. This result is sharp. The condition on the parameters is indeed complementary of the condition that determines the region in which symmetry breaking holds as a consequence of the linear instability of radial optimal functions. Compared to the critical case, the subcritical range requires new tools. The Fisher information has to be replaced by Rényi entropy powers, and since some invariances are lost, the estimates based on the Emden–Fowler transformation have to be modified.     

Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations

This paper is devoted to the study of existence,uniqueness and non-degeneracy of positive solutions of semi-linear elliptic equations.A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions to problems is given.We prove that if the uniqueness and non-degeneracy results are valid for positive solutions of a class of semi-linear elliptic equations,then they are still valid when one perturbs the differential operator a little bit.As consequences,some uniqueness results of positive solutions under the domain perturbation are also obtained.     

A Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg type inequality on Riemannian manifolds

We establish a generalization to Riemannian manifolds of the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality. The applied method is based on the use of conformal Killing vector fields and E. Mitidieri’s approach to Hardy inequalities.     

A Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality in Orlicz–Sobolev spaces and applications

A generalization of the classical Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality is obtained in the setting of Orlicz–Sobolev spaces. As applications, we prove a compact embedding result, and we establish the existence of weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem for a nonhomogeneous and degenerate/singular elliptic PDE.     

Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality on metric measure spaces with applications

We prove that if a metric measure space satisfies the volume doubling condition and the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality with the same exponent $n \ge 3$ , then it has exactly the $n$ -dimensional volume growth. As an application, if an $n$ -dimensional Finsler manifold of non-negative $n$ -Ricci curvature satisfies the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality with the sharp constant, then its flag curvature is identically zero. In the particular case of Berwald spaces, such a space is necessarily isometric to a Minkowski space.     

Existence and extremal solutions of parabolic variational–hemivariational inequalities

We consider quasilinear parabolic variational–hemivariational inequalities in a cylindrical domain $Q=\Omega \times (0,\tau )$ of the form $$\begin{aligned} u\in K:\ \langle u_t+Au, v-u\rangle +\int _Q j^o(x,t, u;v-u)\,dxdt\ge 0,\ \ \forall \ v\in K, \end{aligned}$$ where $K\subset X_0=L^p(0,\tau ;W_0^{1,p}(\Omega ))$ is some closed and convex subset, $A$ is a time-dependent quasilinear elliptic operator, and $s\mapsto j(\cdot ,\cdot ,s)$ is assumed to be locally Lipschitz with $(s,r)\mapsto j^o(x,t, s;r)$ denoting its generalized directional derivative at $s$ in the direction $r$ . The main goal of this paper is threefold: first, an existence and comparison principle is proved; second, the existence of extremal solutions within some sector of appropriately defined sub-supersolutions is shown; third, the equivalence of the above parabolic variational–hemivariational inequality with an associated multi-valued parabolic variational inequality of the form $$\begin{aligned} u\in K:\ \langle u_t+Au, v-u\rangle +\int _Q \eta \, (v-u)\,dxdt\ge 0,\ \ \forall \ v\in K \end{aligned}$$ with $\eta (x,t)\in \partial j(x,t, u(x,t))$ is established, where $s\mapsto \partial j(x,t, s)$ denotes Clarke’s generalized gradient of the locally Lipschitz function $s\mapsto j(\cdot ,\cdot ,s)$ .     

Existence and regularity of positive solutions of elliptic equations of Schr?dinger type

We prove the existence of positive solutions with optimal local regularity of the homogeneous equation of Schr?dinger type $$ - {\rm{div}}(A\nabla u) - \sigma u = 0{\rm{ in }}\Omega $$ for an arbitrary open ?? ? ? ⁿ under only a form-boundedness assumption on ?? ?? D??(??) and ellipticity assumption on A ?? L ^??(??) ^n×n . We demonstrate that there is a two-way correspondence between form boundedness and existence of positive solutions of this equation as well as weak solutions of the equation with quadratic nonlinearity in the gradient $$ - {\rm{div}}(A\nabla u) = (A\nabla v) \cdot \nabla v + \sigma {\rm{ in }}\Omega $$ As a consequence, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for both formboundedness (with a sharp upper form bound) and positivity of the quadratic form of the Schr?dinger type operator H = ?div(A?·)-?? with arbitrary distributional potential ?? ?? D??(??), and give examples clarifying the relationship between these two properties.     

Existence of positive solutions to time scale equations using time scale inequalities ∗

Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem and time scale inequalities are used to establish the existence of positive solutions to some time scale equations     

Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the backward 2D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations

The backward two-dimensional stochastic Navier–Stokes equations (BSNSEs, for short) with suitable perturbations are studied in this paper, over bounded domains for incompressible fluid flow. A priori estimates for adapted solutions of the BSNSEs are obtained which reveal a pathwise L^∞(H)$L^{\infty }\left(H\right)$ bound on the solutions. The existence and uniqueness of solutions are proved by using a monotonicity argument for bounded terminal data. The continuity of the adapted solutions with respect to the terminal data is also established.     

Operator inequalities and reverse inequalities related to the Kittaneh–Manasrah inequalities

This work is concerned with exploring more refinement forms of the Young inequalities and the Kittaneh–Manasrah inequalities. We deduce the Operator version inequalities and reverse version inequalities related to the Kittaneh–Manasrah inequalities.     

Maximizers for Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities and related non-local problems

In this paper we study the existence of maximizers for two families of interpolation inequalities, namely a generalized Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and a new inequality involving the Riesz energy. Two basic tools in our argument are a generalization of Lieb’s Translation Lemma and a Riesz energy version of the Brézis–Lieb lemma.