The Alexandrov-Bakelman-Pucci Weak Maximum Principle for Fully Nonlinear Equations in Unbounded Domains

ABSTRACT

We obtain Alexandrov-Bakelman-Pucci type estimates for semicontinuous viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic inequalities in unbounded domains. Under suitable assumptions relating the geometry of the domain with structural conditions on the differential operator, we establish the validity of the weak maximum principle for solutions which are bounded from above. Two variants are also given, namely one for unbounded solutions in narrow domains and one for operators with possibly changing sign zero order coefficients in domains of small measure.     

A remark on irregularity of the -Neumann problem on non-smooth domains

It is an observation due to J. J. Kohn that for a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in there exists such that the -Neumann operator on maps (the space of -forms with coefficient functions in -Sobolev space of order ) into itself continuously. We show that this conclusion does not hold without the smoothness assumption by constructing a bounded pseudoconvex domain in , smooth except at one point, whose -Neumann operator is not bounded on for any .

     

基于比例边界有限元法的高阶透射边界应用

基于比例边界有限元法和连分式展开推导了无限域弹性动力分析的求解方程,实现了一种局部的高阶透射边界. 采用改进的连分式法求解无限域的动力刚度矩阵,克服了原连分式算法可能会造成矩阵运算病态的问题. 该局部高阶透射边界在时域里表示为一阶常微分方程组,其稳定性取决于其系数矩阵的广义特征值问题. 如果出现虚假模态,采用移谱法来校正系数矩阵以消除虚假模态. 通过两个算例验证了该高阶透射边界的精确性、鲁棒性.     

Polynomials,Higher Order Sobolev Extension Theorems and Interpolation Inequalities on Weighted Folland-Stein Spaces on Stratified Groups

This paper consists of three main parts. One of them is to develop local and global Sobolev interpolation inequalities of any higher order for the nonisotropic Sobolev spaces on stratified nilpotent Lie groups. Despite the extensive research after Jerison's work [3] on Poincaré-type inequalities for Hörmander's vector fields over the years, our results given here even in the nonweighted case appear to be new. Such interpolation inequalities have crucial applications to subelliptic or parabolic PDE's involving vector fields. The main tools to prove such inqualities are approximating the Sobolev functions by polynomials associated with the left invariant vector fields on ?. Some very usefull properties for polynomials associated with the functions are given here and they appear to have independent interests in their own rights. Finding the existence of such polynomials is the second main part of this paper. Main results of these two parts have been announced in the author's paper in Mathematical Research Letters [38].The third main part of this paper contains extension theorems on anisotropic Sobolev spaces on stratified groups and their applications to proving Sobolev interpolation inequalities on (?,δ) domains. Some results of weighted Sobolev spaces are also given here. We construct a linear extension operator which is bounded on different Sobolev spaces simultaneously. In particular, we are able to construct a bounded linear extension operator such that the derivatives of the extended function can be controlled by the same order of derivatives of the given Sobolev functions. Theorems are stated and proved for weighted anisotropic Sobolev spaces on stratified groups.     

On the domain dependence of solutions to the two-phase Stefan problem

We prove that solutions to the two-phase Stefan problem defined on a sequence of spatial domains _n ^N converge to a solution of the same problem on a domain where is the limit of _n in the sense of Mosco. The corresponding free boundaries converge in the sense of Lebesgue measure on ^N.     

Rigidity of proper holomorphic mappings between equidimensional bounded symmetric domains

We prove that any proper holomorphic mapping between two equidimensional irreducible bounded symmetric domains with rank is a biholomorphism. The proof of the main result in this paper will be achieved by a differential-geometric study of a special class of complex geodesic curves on the bounded symmetric domains with respect to their Bergman metrics.