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Domain of spectral fractional Laplacian

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete Riemannian manifold with Laplacian $\Delta:C^{\infty}_{c}(M)\to C^{\infty}_{c}(M)$ (think of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ if you wish). This operator is essentially self-adjoint in $L^{2}...
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Is a continuous functional on continuous functions the restriction of a continuous functional on the space of all functions?

As sets, we can consider the space $C(\mathbf{R}^n;\mathbf{R}^k)$ - of all continuous functions from $\mathbf{R}^n$ to $\mathbf{R}^k$ - to be a subset of the product space $(\mathbf{R}^k)^{\mathbf{R}^...
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About definition of stable solution. $Q_u(\phi) \ge 0$ for all $\phi \in C_c^1(\Omega)$ replaced by "for all $\phi \in W_0^{1,2}(\Omega)$"

I want to ask about a remark about the stable solution of elliptic PDE Remark 1.1.1. We say $u$ is stable solution of $-\Delta u=f(u) \ \text { in } \Omega$ and $u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$ if it ...
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Sobolev-type estimate for irrational winding on a torus

Let $\mathbb{T} = \{ (x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^2 \}/_{x \mapsto x + 1, y \mapsto y + 1}$ be a real 2-torus. Let $\mathscr{C}^{\infty}_0(\mathbb{T})$ be the subset of $\mathscr{C}^{\infty}(\mathbb{T})$ of ...
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If $f$ is bounded, decays fast enough at infinity and $\int f=0$, does this imply that $f$ is in the Hardy space $\mathcal H^1(\mathbb R^n)$?

Let $\mathcal H^1(\mathbb R^n)$ be the real Hardy space (as in Stein's "Harmonic Analysis", Chapter 3). It is well known that $\mathcal H^1(\mathbb R^n)\subset L^1(\mathbb R^n)$ and its ...
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Self-adjointness of fractional laplacian

Lets consider the following functional analytic definition of the fractional Laplacian: Consider a (complete, connected, oriented) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with corresponding Laplacian $\Delta_{g}$....
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Surjectivity of a class of integrals in dimensions two

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be an open set and $G(x,\theta): \Omega \times [0,2\pi]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a positive continuous function. Assume $F:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ defined ...
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Continuity of an upper semi-continuous function over periodic points

Let $f: X \to \mathbb{R}$ be an upper semi-continuous function on $X$, which is a compact subspace of a vector space. Let sequence $x_n, n \in \mathbb{N}$, with positive elements - periodic: there ...
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What standard Banach space is isomorphic to the completion of this different normed structure on $\ell^1$?

A colleague asked me the following question: "What can one do with the following norm on $\ell^1$: $|x|=\int_1^2 |x|_pdp$ where $| \;\; |_p$ is the standard norm on $\ell_p$?" This ...
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Approximating $L^p$ functions by eigenfunctions of Laplacian

I'm reading a paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022039608004932. In this paper, the authors assume that $\mathcal{O}$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $C^m$ boundary ...
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$L^1$ error between indicator function and smoothed out version

For a large parameter $r>0$, consider the indicator function $1_{[-r,r]}$ and its convolution with the (normalized) Gaussian $\frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi}}e^{-x^2}$, that is, $$f_r(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi}}\...
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Norm on the space of real analytic functions

The space $C^{\omega}(\Omega)$ of real-valued real analytic functions on the open bounded set $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ does not have any obvious or natural metric which would make it a Fréchet ...
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Computing a limit for the Weierstrass function

Let $a\in (0,1)$ and let $b$ be an odd positive integer such that $ab>1+\frac{3}{2}\pi$. Let $\alpha \in (0,1)$ be defined by $\alpha= -\frac{ln(a)}{ln(b)}$ and consider the well known Weierstrass ...
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Is there a modification of $f$ on a null set such that $F: [0, T] \to L^p ({\mathbb R}^d), t \mapsto f(t,\cdot)$ is Bochner measurable?

Let $T>0$ and $p \in [1, \infty)$. Let $f \in L^p ([0, T] \times {\mathbb R}^d)$. By a theorem in this thread, there is a Lebesgue null subset $N$ of $[0, T]$ such that $f(t, \cdot)$ is Lebesgue ...
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Uniform closure of subspaces of Baire class 1

Describe a uniformly closed linear subspace $A \subset C([0,1])$ such that the space $B_1(A)$ is not uniformly complete. Here $B_1(A)$ is the set of all bounded functions $f$ which are pointwise ...
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Is there a version of dominated convergence theorem for local $L^p$ spaces?

Fix $p \in [1, \infty)$. Let $(L^p (\mathbb R^d), \|\cdot\|_{L^p})$ be the Lesbesgue space of $p$-integrable real-valued functions on $\mathbb R^d$. Let $\tilde L^p (\mathbb R^d)$ be the space of ...
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Boyd & Chua 1985: Is the proof of Lemma 2 correct?

$\newcommand\norm[1]{\lVert#1\rVert}\newcommand\abs[1]{\lvert#1\rvert}$I'm reading this article by Boyd and Chua [1], in which they prove the approximability of arbitrary time-invariant (TI) operators ...
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Does a measurable $F :[0, T] \to L^p (\mathbb R^d; \mathbb R_{\ge 0})$ have a "flattened" measurable version?

Let $d \in \mathbb N^*,p \in [1, \infty]$ and $T>0$. Let $$ F :[0, T] \to L^p (\mathbb R^d; \mathbb R_{\ge 0}), t \mapsto F_t $$ be measurable. I would like to ask if there is a measurable function ...
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For any smooth function $f$ on $[0,1]$, do we have $\lVert P_N f \lVert_{1} \leq \lVert f \rVert_1$ for $P_N$ defined by Fourier expansion?

Let $C^\infty[0,1]$ be the space of periodic smooth functions on $\mathbb{R}$ with the period $1$. It is well-known to be a Frechet space with the uniform convergence of all derivatives. Also, $\{ e^{...
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Holomorphic extension of the Fourier transform of a measure

If an entire holomorphic function $f(z)$ is given by the analytic continuation of $f(x)=\int_\mathbb{R}e^{-ix\xi}\,d\mu(\xi)$ with a finite Borel measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}$, then $g(x):=\int_\...
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A counterexample showing $BV_p \neq AC_p$

I am trying to work through a supposedly simple counterexample given in papers by Love and Gehring regarding a $p$-power generalization of bounded variation and absolute continuity. Let $p > 1$. ...
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Product of Dirac delta function

The following equation may be meaningful, but how can we make it well-defined $$\delta(x-a)\cdot\delta(x-b)=0$$ Question: How do we defined this equation? Or more broadly define product between ...
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Why is this function in $L^1$?

I had a question about a claim made in the paper "Group Invariant Scattering" and why it is true. Consider the function $h_j(x) = 2^{nj}\psi(2^jx)$, where $\psi$ is a function such that $\...
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Is the space $L^p_{\text{loc}} (\mathbb R^d)$ separable w.r.t. the norm $\|f\|_{\tilde L^p} := \sup_{x \in \mathbb R^d} \|1_{B(x, 1)} f\|_{L^p}$?

Fix $p \in [1, \infty)$. Let $(L^p (\mathbb R^d), \|\cdot\|_{L^p})$ be the Lesbesgue space of $p$-integrable real-valued functions on $\mathbb R^d$. Let ${\tilde L}^p (\mathbb R^d)$ be the space of ...
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Analytic functions where all derivatives vanish at infinity and which are bounded

Let $C_0(\mathbb{R})$ denote the analytic functions $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. I wonder whether there a functions $f \in C_0(\mathbb{R})$ with $f \neq 0$, such that there is a constant $...
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Global control of locally approximating polynomial in Stone-Weierstrass?

Let $X=\mathbb{R}$, and $\mathcal{A}:=\mathbb{R}[x]$ be the subalgebra (of $C(X)$) of univariate polynomials. Given $\varphi\in C_b(X)$ and $K\subset X$ compact, we know from Stone-Weierstrass that $$\...
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What is the exact description of the homogeneous Besov space $\smash{\dot{B}}^0_{1,1}(\mathbb{R})$?

The Besov space is defined briefly in Wikipedia and I looked for a number of references to find some information on the homogeneous Besov space $\smash{\dot{B}}^0_{1,1}(\mathbb{R})$. However, ...
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Validity of Hölder inequality for the homogeneous Besov spaces $\dot{B}^0_{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $\dot{B}^0_{2,2}(\mathbb{R}^n)=L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$

I am looking at Corollary 1. in p.244-245 of the book "Sobolev Spaces of Fractional Order, Nemytskij Operators, and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations" (1996) by Thomas Runst Winfried ...
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Examples of RKHS that are "classical"

Among the so-called "classical" Hilbert spaces ($L^2$, Sobolev, Hardy, Bergman, etc.), which are very well-studied, which are RKHSs? It is easy to construct example of RKHSs by applying the ...
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Fractional Laplacian of $(a-x)_+^\alpha$ in $(0,1)$

How can I compute the spectral fractional Laplacian of $(a-x)_+^\alpha$ on $\Omega = (0,1)$? Here the operator is defined as $$(-\Delta)^s u = c_{N,s} \int_0^\infty (e^{t\Delta_N}u(x) - u(x)) t^{-1 - ...
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Decomposition of non negative Radon measure into $L^1$ and $H^{-1}$ functions

What is a reference for the following result (which appears to be well-known in measure theory)? Any non negative Radon measure can be decomposed uniquely into the sum of an absolutely continuous ...
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Is there a real/functional analytic proof of Cramér–Lévy theorem?

In the book Gaussian Measures in Finite and Infinite Dimensions by Stroock, there is a theorem with a comment The following remarkable theorem was discovered by Cramér and Lévy. So far as I know, ...
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Under what conditions is $\lim_{x\to a}\left|\varphi\circ f(x)-\tau \circ g(x)\right|=0$ true?

This question is inspired from another much easier problem I was trying to solve which I tried to generalize. The question is essentially as follows (assuming all the limits exist) If $a\in \mathbb R\...
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Leibniz rule bound for the inverse of the Laplacian?

Let $f, g \in L^2[\mathbb{T}^2]$ be real-valued functions without zero modes. That is, $\int_{\mathbb{T}^2}f=\int_{\mathbb{T}^2}g=0$. Here, ${\mathbb{T}^2}$ is the $2$-dimensional torus $[\mathbb{R}/\...
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Does convolution with heat kernel converge to pointwise evaluation?

Let $G(t, x) := \frac{1}{\sqrt{4 \pi t}} \exp\left( -\frac{x^2}{4 t }\right)$ for all $(t, x) \in (0, T) \times \mathbb{R}$ be the fundamental solution to the heat equation $\partial_tu = \partial_{...
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$K *g_n$ converges in the topology of smooth functions, $K$ approximates $\delta(x)$ and $g_n$ is a.e convergent to $g$, then regularity of $g$?

This question is continuation from If $K *g_n$ converges in the Fréchet topology of smooth functions and $K$ approximates $\delta(x)$, is $g_n$ itself convergent? - revised. As before, let us ...
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Singular integral operators acting on Zygmund class

It is proven in "Classical and Modern Fourier Analysis" by L. Grafakos (Corollary 6.7.2) that if a kernel $K(x)$ defined away from the origin on $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfies $$\sup_{0<R<\...
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$L^\infty$ bound of $x^m \psi_n(x)$ where $\psi_n$ is a Hermite function and $m,n \in \mathbb{N}$ - extension from Cramer's inequality

For each $n \in \mathbb{N}$, the Hermite function $\psi_n : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a Schwartz function defined by \begin{equation} \psi_n(x):=(-1)^n(2^n n!\sqrt{\pi})^{-1/2} e^{x^2/2} \frac{d^n}...
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Schwartz kernel theorem for restricted operators

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth Riemannian manifold. The celabrated kernel theorem of Schwartz shows that for any linear and continuous operator $A:C_{c}^{\infty}(M)\to C^{\infty}(M)$, there exists a ...
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Convergence of the infima of convex functions on $\mathbb{R}^m$

Any thoughts on proving the following statement, which is a generalization of the result in convergence of the infima of convex functions from domain $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}^m$ and also Theorem 1 ...
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Does global boundedness ruin Stone-Weierstrass denseness?

Let $X$ be any topological space and denote by $\tau_X$ the topology on $C_b(X;\mathbb{R})$ that is induced by the family of seminorms $(\|\cdot\|_\psi\mid\psi\in B_0(X))$ with $\|f\|_\psi:=\sup_{x\in ...
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A limit arising from Mellin Inversion: How to compute a specific term of an asymptotic series?

So I am wondering if there exists a general procedure for the following problem: given a monotonically increasing function $f(n)$ which is nonegative on the interval $[0,\infty)$ and grows faster than ...
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Sharpest version of semiclassical Calderon-Vaillancourt theorem

Let $S$ be the space of symbols defined by $$S:=\{a\in C^{\infty}(T^*\mathbb{R}^d):\forall \alpha,\beta\in\mathbb{Z}^d,\, |\partial_x^{\alpha}\partial_{\xi}^{\beta}a(x,\xi)|\le C_{\alpha\beta}\},$$ ...
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Convergence in sequential Lebesgue spaces

Consider a strictly increasing sequence $1\leq q_0<q_n<q_{n+1}<q$ such that $q_n\to q$ as $n\to \infty$. Let $B\subset \Bbb R^d$ be a ball, so that $L^{q}(B)\subset L^{q_{n+1}}(B)\subset L^{...
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Stone-Weierstrass theorem: coefficients of approximating sequence bounded?

Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $\mathcal{A}$ be a subalgebra of $C(X;\mathbb{R})$. The Stone-Weierstrass theorem asserts that if $\mathcal{A}$ contains the constants and separates the points ...
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Schrödinger representation of the Heisenberg group

Let $\Pi_{\lambda}$ be the the Schrödinger representations of the Heisenberg group $H^n=\Bbb C^n\times\Bbb R$. For $\phi\in L^2(\Bbb R^n)$, we have $$\Pi_{\lambda} (x,y,t)\phi(\xi)=e^{i\lambda t} e^{...
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A generalized form of the approximation to identity?

This question is an extension of the one I posted on ME: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4701500/if-alpha-nx-int-lvert-x-y-rvert-leq-1-n-lvert-x-y-rvert2-d-muy It might be elementary for here,...
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Banach space of vector measures

Let $S$ be a set and $\Sigma$ be a $\sigma$-algebra of subsets of $S$. Let $A$ be a Banach space over the field of complex numbers. A countably additive map $\mu:\Sigma\to A$ is called a vector ...
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How to prove the second Korn inequality?

$\textbf{Theorem}.1$ (The first Korn inequality) Suppose that $ \Omega $ is a bounded domain in $ \mathbb{R}^d $ with Lipschitz boundary. Then\ \begin{eqnarray} \sqrt{2}\left\|\triangledown u\right\|_{...
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On an integral equation

Let $B: C^{\infty}([0,1]^3)$ satisfy $$B(t,t,x)=0 \quad \text{for all $t,x \in [0,1]$.}$$ Let $f \in C^{\infty}([0,1]^2)$ satisfy the following integral equation: $$ \int_0^1 f(t,x)\,dx + \int_0^t\...

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