On the essential self-adjointness of the general second order elliptic operators

In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for the essential self-adjointness of second order elliptic operators. It turns out that these conditions coincide with those for the Schrödinger operator on a manifold whose metric essentially depends on the principal coefficients of a given operator.

     

On the influence of second order uniformly elliptic operators in nonlinear problems

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the role of second order elliptic operators of the type on the existence of a positive solution for the problem involving critical exponent where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in , , and λ is a real parameter. In particular, we show that if the function has an interior global minimum point x₀ such that is comparable to , where and is the identity matrix of order n, then the range of values of λ for which the problem above has a positive solution can change drastically from to .     

On the symbol of nonlocal operators in Sobolev spaces

We consider nonlocal operators generated by pseudodifferential operators and the operator of shift along the trajectories of an arbitrary diffeomorphism of a smooth closed manifold. We introduce the notion of symbol of such operators acting in Sobolev spaces. As examples, we consider specific diffeomorphisms, namely, isometries and dilations.     

Littlewood-Paley functions associated to second order elliptic operators

We prove L^p-estimates for the Littlewood-Paley function associated with a second order divergence form operator L=–div A with bounded measurable complex coefficients in ⁿ.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):42B20, 35J15The author is partially supported by NSF of China (Grant No. 10371134) and SRF for ROCS, SEM.     

Essential self-adjointness of semibounded elliptic operators of second order

Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 710–716, May, 1989.     

Spectral stability of Dirichlet second order uniformly elliptic operators

We prove sharp stability results for the dependence of the eigenvalues of second order uniformly elliptic linear operators with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions upon domain perturbation.     

Markovian extensions of symmetric second order elliptic differential operators

Let be bounded with a smooth boundary Γ and let S be the symmetric operator in given by the minimal realization of a second order elliptic differential operator. We give a complete classification of the Markovian self‐adjoint extensions of S by providing an explicit one‐to‐one correspondence between such extensions and the class of Dirichlet forms in which are additively decomposable by the bilinear form of the Dirichlet‐to‐Neumann operator plus a Markovian form. By such a result two further equivalent classifications are provided: the first one is expressed in terms of an additive decomposition of the bilinear forms associated to the extensions, the second one uses the additive decomposition of the resolvents provided by Kre?n's formula. The Markovian part of the decomposition allows to characterize the operator domain of the corresponding extension in terms of Wentzell‐type boundary conditions. Some properties of the extensions, and of the corresponding Dirichlet forms, semigroups and heat kernels, like locality, regularity, irreducibility, recurrence, transience, ultracontractivity and Gaussian bounds are also discussed.     

Blow-up examples for second order elliptic PDEs of critical Sobolev growth

Let be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension , and be the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Let also be the critical Sobolev exponent for the embedding of the Sobolev space into Lebesgue's spaces, and be a smooth function on . Elliptic equations of critical Sobolev growth such as

have been the target of investigation for decades. A very nice -theory for the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of such equations has been available since the 1980's. The -theory was recently developed by Druet-Hebey-Robert. Such a theory provides sharp pointwise estimates for the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of . It was used as a key point by Druet to prove compactness results for equations such as . An important issue in the field of blow-up analysis, in particular with respect to previous work by Druet and Druet-Hebey-Robert, is to get explicit nontrivial examples of blowing-up sequences of solutions of . We present such examples in this article.

     

Best constants and minimizers for embeddings of second order Sobolev spaces

By considering the kernels of the first two traces, four different second order Sobolev spaces may be constructed. For these spaces, embeddings into Lebesgue spaces, the best embedding constant and the possible existence of minimizers are studied. The Euler equation corresponding to some of these minimization problems is a semilinear biharmonic equation with boundary conditions involving third order derivatives: it is shown that the complementing condition is satisfied.     

A characterization of first order nonlinear partial differential operators on Sobolev spaces

Nonlinear partial differential operators $\text{G: W}{}^{\mathrm{1,p}}\text{(Ω) → L}{}^{\mathrm{q}}\text{(Ω) (1 ? p, q ∞)}$ having the form G(u) = g(u, D₁u,…, D_Nu), with g?C(R × R_N), are here shown to be precisely those operators which are local, (locally) uniformly continuous on, $\text{W}{}^{\mathrm{1,\infty }}\text{(Ω)}$, and (roughly speaking) translation invariant. It is also shown that all such partial differential operators are necessarily bounded and continuous with respect to the norm topologies of $\text{W}{}^{\mathrm{1,p}}\text{(Ω)}\text{and}\text{L}{}^{\mathrm{q}}\text{(Ω)}$.     

Functions of a second order elliptic operator in rearrangement invariant spaces

The functional calculus of positive operators is applied to second-order elliptic operatorsP. For any absolutely concave (t), the corresponding operators (P ^–1) are represented as integral operators, their kernels are estimated, and these estimates are used for studying (P ^–1) in Lorentz, Marcinkiewicz and Orlicz spaces. Most of results obtained are sharp.     

Boundary value problems for asymptotically homogeneous elliptic second order operators

In this paper we show the Dirichlet and Neumann problems over exterior regions have unique solutions in certain weighted Sobolev spaces. Two applications are given: (1) The Dirichlet problem for semi-linear operators, and (2) a Helmholtz decomposition for vector fields on exterior regions.     

On the uniqueness in gevrey spaces for degenerate elliptic operators

The uniqueness and the non–uniqueness of the Gevrey ultradifferentiable solutions to the Cauchy problem for a class of second order degenerate elliptic operators is studied. Some uniqueness results are proved and the necessity of the hypotheses is discussed by the construction of some counter-examples.