The Laplacian with Wentzell-Robin Boundary Conditions on Spaces of Continuous Functions

We investigate the Laplacian on a smooth bounded open set Rn with Wentzell-Robin boundary condition $\beta u+\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} + \Delta u=0$ on the boundary . Under the assumption $\memb$ C() with $\geq$ 0 , we prove that generates a differentiable positive contraction semigroup on $C(\bar{\Omega})$ and study some monotonicity properties and the asymptotic behaviour.     

Long time behavior of heat kernels of operators with unbounded drift terms

Given a second-order elliptic operator on Rd, with bounded diffusion coefficients and unbounded drift, which is the generator of a strongly continuous semigroup on L²(Rd) represented by an integral, we study the time behavior of the integral kernel and prove estimates on its decay at infinity. If the diffusion coefficients are symmetric, a local lower estimate is also proved.     

Complemented subspaces of sums and products of banach spaces

Summary We prove that, when X is one of the Banach spaces l^p (1p ) or c₀, then every infinite-dimensional complemented subspace of X^N (resp. X^(N)) is isomorphic to one of the following spaces: (, X, × X, X^N (resp. , X, X, X^(N)). Therefore, X^N and X^(N) are primary. We also give some consequences and related results.The second author acknowledges partial support from the Italian Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione.     

On the location of the essential spectrum of Schrödinger operators

We give estimates on the bottom of the essential spectrum of Schrödinger operators in .

     

The Sector of Analyticity of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Semigroup on Lp Spaces with Respect to Invariant Measure

The sector of analyticity of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroupis computed on the space := L^p (R^N; µ) with respect to its invariant measure µ.If A= + Bx· denotes the generator of the Ornstein–Uhlenbecksemigroup, then the angle ₂ of the sector of analyticity in is /2 minus the spectral angleof BQ, Q being the matrix determining the Gaussian measure µ.The angle of analyticity in is then given by the formula      

On the spaces C k (ℝ) ∩ L p (ℝ)

We show that the Fréchet-Sobolev spaces C(ℝ) ∩ L ^p (ℝ) and C ^k (ℝ) ∩ L ^p (ℝ) are not isomorphic for p ≠ 2 and k ∈ ℕ. Research supported by the Italian MURST.     

Global properties of invariant measures

We study global regularity properties of invariant measures associated with second order differential operators in R^N. Under suitable conditions, we prove global boundedness of the density, Sobolev regularity, a Harnack inequality and pointwise upper and lower bounds.