Refined limiting imbeddings for Sobolev spaces of vector-valued functions

We prove a refined limiting imbedding theorem of the Brézis-Wainger type in the first critical case, i.e. , for Sobolev spaces and Bessel potential spaces of functions with values in a general Banach space E. In particular, the space E may lack the UMD property.     

Fundamental solution for the Q-Laplacian and sharp Moser-Trudinger inequality in Carnot groups

For a general Carnot group G with homogeneous dimension Q we prove the existence of a fundamental solution of the Q-Laplacian u_Q and a constant a_Q>0 such that exp(−a_Qu_Q) is a homogeneous norm on G. This implies a representation formula for smooth functions on G which is used to prove the sharp Carnot group version of the celebrated Moser-Trudinger inequality.     

Extensions for Sobolev mappings between manifolds

We consider two compact Riemannian manifoldsM andN, such thatM has a boundary (but notN). We address the extension problem in the Sobolev class, namely, we investigate the question: foru W ^1–1/p,pM,N is there a mapV inW ^1/p(M,N) such thatV=u on M. Various results are given, and an emphasis is put on the special (simple) caseN=S ¹.     

Carleson embeddings for Sobolev spaces via heat equation

Let u(t,x) be the solution of the heat equation (∂_t-Δ_x)u(t,x)=0 on subject to u(0,x)=f(x) on Rⁿ. The main goal of this paper is to characterize such a nonnegative measure μ on that f(x)?u(t²,x) induces a bounded embedding from the Sobolev space , p∈[1,n) into the Lebesgue space , q∈(0,∞).     

The sharp Sobolev and isoperimetric inequalities split twice

This paper shows that each of the sharp (endpoint) Sobolev inequality and the isoperimetric inequality can be split into two sharp and stronger inequalities through either the 1-variational capacity or the 1-integral affine surface area. Furthermore, some related sharp analytic and geometric inequalities are also explored.     

Limits of higher-order Besov spaces and sharp reiteration theorems

We compute the limits of higher-order Besov norms and derive the sharp constants for certain forms of the Sobolev embedding theorem. Our results extend to higher-order spaces the recent work by Brézis-Bourgain-Mironescu and Maz’ya-Shaposhnikova. The interpolation methods we develop are of interest on their own and could have applications to related inequalities.     

Plancherel-type estimates and sharp spectral multipliers

We study general spectral multiplier theorems for self-adjoint positive definite operators on L²(X,μ), where X is any open subset of a space of homogeneous type. We show that the sharp Hörmander-type spectral multiplier theorems follow from the appropriate estimates of the L² norm of the kernel of spectral multipliers and the Gaussian bounds for the corresponding heat kernel. The sharp Hörmander-type spectral multiplier theorems are motivated and connected with sharp estimates for the critical exponent for the Riesz means summability, which we also study here. We discuss several examples, which include sharp spectral multiplier theorems for a class of scattering operators on R³ and new spectral multiplier theorems for the Laguerre and Hermite expansions.     

Carleson measure problems for parabolic Bergman spaces and homogeneous Sobolev spaces

Let be the space of solutions to the parabolic equation having finite norm. We characterize nonnegative Radon measures μ on having the property , 1≤p≤q<∞, whenever . Meanwhile, denoting by v(t,x) the solution of the above equation with Cauchy data v₀(x), we characterize nonnegative Radon measures μ on satisfying , β∈(0,n), p∈[1,n/β], q∈(0,∞). Moreover, we obtain the decay of v(t,x), an isocapacitary inequality and a trace inequality.     

The best Sobolev trace constant in a domain with oscillating boundary

In this paper we study homogenization problems for the best constant for the Sobolev trace embedding W^1,p(Ω)?L^q(∂Ω)$W^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)?L^q\left(\partial \Omega \right)$ in a bounded smooth domain when the boundary is perturbed by adding an oscillation. We find that there exists a critical size of the amplitude of the oscillations for which the limit problem has a weight on the boundary. For sizes larger than critical the best trace constant goes to zero and for sizes smaller than critical it converges to the best constant in the domain without perturbations.     

A class of bounded operators on Sobolev spaces

We describe a class of nonlinear operators which are bounded on the Sobolev spaces , for and 1 < p < . As a corollary, we prove that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on , for and 1 < p < ; this extends the result of J. Kinnunen [7], valid for s = 1. Received: 5 December 2000     

Sobolev type embeddings in the limiting case

We use interpolation methods to prove a new version of the limiting case of the Sobolev embedding theorem, which includes the result of Hansson and Brezis-Wainger for W _n ^k/k as a special case. We deal with generalized Sobolev spaces W _A ^k , where instead of requiring the functions and their derivatives to be in L_n/k, they are required to be in a rearrangement invariant space A which belongs to a certain class of spaces “close” to L_n/k. We also show that the embeddings given by our theorem are optimal, i.e., the target spaces into which the above Sobolev spaces are shown to embed cannot be replaced by smaller rearrangement invariant spaces. This slightly sharpens and generalizes an, earlier optimality result obtained by Hansson with respect to the Riesz potential operator. In memory of Gene Fabes. Acknowledgements and Notes This research was supported by Technion V.P.R. Fund-M. and C. Papo Research Fund.     

Higher-order Sobolev embeddings and isoperimetric inequalities

Optimal higher-order Sobolev type embeddings are shown to follow via isoperimetric inequalities. This establishes a higher-order analogue of a well-known link between first-order Sobolev embeddings and isoperimetric inequalities. Sobolev type inequalities of any order, involving arbitrary rearrangement-invariant norms, on open sets in Rⁿ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, possibly endowed with a measure density, are reduced to much simpler one-dimensional inequalities for suitable integral operators depending on the isoperimetric function of the relevant sets. As a consequence, the optimal target space in the relevant Sobolev embeddings can be determined both in standard and in non-standard classes of function spaces and underlying measure spaces. In particular, our results are applied to any-order Sobolev embeddings in regular (John) domains of the Euclidean space, in Maz'ya classes of (possibly irregular) Euclidean domains described in terms of their isoperimetric function, and in families of product probability spaces, of which the Gauss space is a classical instance.     

Sobolev inequalities on homogeneous spaces

We consider a homogeneous spaceX=(X, d, m) of dimension 1 and a local regular Dirichlet forma inL ² (X, m). We prove that if a Poincaré inequality of exponent 1p< holds on every pseudo-ballB(x, R) ofX, then Sobolev and Nash inequalities of any exponentq[p, ), as well as Poincaré inequalities of any exponentq[p, +), also hold onB(x, R).Lavoro eseguito nell'ambito del Contratto CNR Strutture variazionali irregolari.     

A sharp form of an embedding into exponential and double exponential spaces

Let Ω be a bounded domain in . In the well-known paper (Indiana Univ. Math. J. 20 (1971) 1077) Moser found the smallest value of K such that

     

Best constants in the exceptional case of Sobolev inequalities

We prove the existence of a second best constant in the exceptional case of Sobolev inequalities on a compact Riemannian n-manifold locally conformally flat.     

A Sobolev Extension Domain That is Not Uniform

In this paper we construct a Sobolev extension domain which, together with its complement, is topologically as nice as possible and yet not uniform. This shows that the well known implication that Uniform Sobolev extension cannot be reversed under strongest possible topological conditions.     

Biorthogonal wavelets in Hm(ℝ)

This article is concerned with constructions of biorthogonal basis of compactly supported wavelets in Sobolev spaces of integer order. Using techniques of [1] and [2], the results presented here generalize to Sobolev spaces some constructions of Cohen et al. [7] and Chui and Wang [5] established in L²(ℝ).