The classical Banach spaces

In this paper we study some structural and geometric properties of the quotient Banach spaces , where is an arbitrary set, is an Orlicz function, is the corresponding Orlicz space on and , being the ideal of elements with finite support. The results we obtain here extend and complete the ones obtained by Leonard and Whitfield (Rocky Mountain J. Math. 13 (1983), 531-539). We show that is not a dual space, that , if for every , that has no smooth points, that it cannot be renormed equivalently with a strictly convex or smooth norm, that is a Grothendieck space, etc.

     

On the Dunford-Pettis property of the tensor product of spaces

In this paper we characterize those compact Hausdorff spaces such that (and ) have the Dunford-Pettis Property, answering thus in the negative a question posed by Castillo and González who asked if and have this property.

     

Powers of

We prove that the Cech-Stone remainder of the integers, , maps onto its square if and only if there is a nontrivial map between two of its different powers, finite or infinite. We also prove that every compact space that maps onto its own square maps onto its own countable infinite product.

     

Dense-lineability in spaces of continuous functions

In this paper we provide a general method to prove that certain nonlinear families of continuous functions contain dense linear manifolds. An application is furnished.

     

Distributions supported in a hypersurface and local

We give a necessary condition for a distribution with compact support in a hypersurface to be in the local Hardy space . We apply this condition to prove a result distinguishing two types of Hardy spaces of distributions on a smooth domain .

     

The finite Hilbert transform and weighted Sobolev spaces

The boundedness of the finite Hilbert transform operator on certain weighted L_p spaces is well known. We extend this result to give the boundedness of that operator on certain weighted Sobolev spaces. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On Beurling-type theorems in weighted and Bergman spaces

We prove that analytic operators satisfying certain series of operator inequalities possess the wandering subspace property. As a corollary, we obtain Beurling-type theorems for invariant subspaces in certain weighted and Bergman spaces.

     

Hölder norm estimates for elliptic operators on finite and infinite-dimensional spaces

We introduce a new method for proving the estimate

where solves the equation . The method can be applied to the Laplacian on . It also allows us to obtain similar estimates when we replace the Laplacian by an infinite-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator or other elliptic operators. These operators arise naturally in martingale problems arising from measure-valued branching diffusions and from stochastic partial differential equations.

     

Bilinear forms on homogeneous Sobolev spaces

In this paper we characterize the boundedness of the bilinear form defined by

$(f,g)\in {\dot{H}}^s(\mathbb{R})\times {\dot{H}}^s(\mathbb{R})\to \underset{\mathbb{R}}{\int }{(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^{s/2}(fg)(x){(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^{s/2}(b)(x)dx,$

in the product of homogeneous Sobolev spaces ${\dot{H}}^s(\mathbb{R})\times {\dot{H}}^s(\mathbb{R})$, $0<s<1/2$. We deduce a characterization of the space of pointwise multipliers from ${\dot{H}}^s(\mathbb{R})$ to its dual ${\dot{H}}^{?s}(\mathbb{R})$ in terms of trace measures.     

Multipliers between Sobolev spaces and fractional differentiation

We characterize the pointwise multipliers which maps a Sobolev space to a Sobolev space in the case |s|<r<d/2.     

Completely continuous multilinear operators on spaces

Given a -linear operator from a product of spaces into a Banach space , our main result proves the equivalence between being completely continuous, having an -valued separately continuous extension to the product of the biduals and having a regular associated polymeasure. It is well known that, in the linear case, these are also equivalent to being weakly compact, and that, for , being weakly compact implies the conditions above but the converse fails.

     

On the best Hölder exponent for two dimensional elliptic equations in divergence form

We obtain an estimate for the Hölder continuity exponent for weak solutions to the following elliptic equation in divergence form:

where is a bounded open subset of and, for every , is a symmetric matrix with bounded measurable coefficients. Such an estimate ``interpolates' between the well-known estimate of Piccinini and Spagnolo in the isotropic case , where is a bounded measurable function, and our previous result in the unit determinant case . Furthermore, we show that our estimate is sharp. Indeed, for every we construct coefficient matrices such that is isotropic and has unit determinant, and such that our estimate for reduces to an equality, for every .

     

Wavelet bases in

Some years ago, compactly supported divergence-free wavelets were constructed which also gave rise to a stable (biorthogonal) wavelet splitting of . These bases have successfully been used both in the analysis and numerical treatment of the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations. In this paper, we construct stable wavelet bases for the stream function spaces . Moreover, -free vector wavelets are constructed and analysed. The relationship between and are expressed in terms of these wavelets. We obtain discrete (orthogonal) Hodge decompositions.

Our construction works independently of the space dimension, but in terms of general assumptions on the underlying wavelet systems in that are used as building blocks. We give concrete examples of such bases for tensor product and certain more general domains . As an application, we obtain wavelet multilevel preconditioners in and .

     

Constructing frames for finite dimensional Hilbert spaces

In this paper, we use the characterization of frames, introduced in [W. Rolli, A characterization of frames for finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, preprint], to construct frames for finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Furthermore this approach allows for the construction of frames with prescribed properties.     

Generalized sampling in shift-invariant spaces with multiple stable generators

The aim of this paper is to derive stable generalized sampling in a shift-invariant space with ? stable generators. This is done in the light of the theory of frames in the product Hilbert space (? times). The generalized samples are expressed as the frame coefficients of an appropriate function in with respect to some particular frame in . Since any multiply stable generated shift-invariant space is the image of by means of a bounded invertible operator, the generalized sampling is obtained from some dual frame expansions in . An example in the setting of the Hermite cubic splines is exhibited.     

Stable orders of stunted lens spaces mod

Let be the stunted lens space mod and its stable order. If , then was determined by H. Toda (1963). In this paper, we determine the number for .

     

Superposition operator in Sobolev spaces on domains

For an arbitrary open set we characterize all functions on the real line such that for all . New element in the proof is based on Maz'ya's capacitary criterion for the imbedding .