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Sharp Sobolev trace inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with boundaries
For $n \geq3$, let $(M,g)$ be smooth $n$-dimensional, compact, Riemannian manifold with a smooth boundary. Then there exists some constant $A=A(M,g)>0$ such that, for all $u \in H^1(M)$
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Regularity and decay of Fourier-like series on a manifold
Let $D$ be a first-order self-adjoint elliptic differential operator acting on sections of a vector bundle $S$ over a closed manifold $M$. Then it is well-known that the various eigenspaces $E_\lambda$...
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Smooth approximation in Sobolev spaces for surfaces with boundary
Let $\mathbb{D}$ be the unit disk in $\mathbb{C}$ with closure $\overline{\mathbb{D}}$, and let $\varphi:\partial \mathbb{D}\to \partial \mathbb{D}$ be any continuous homeomorphism. Let $\mu$ be a ...
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Reference Aubin T.- Espaces de Sobolev sur les varietes Riemanniennes. Bull. Sc. Math. 100, (1976) 149-173
I have been searching without success for the reference:
Aubin T.- Espaces de Sobolev sur les varietes Riemanniennes. Bull. Sc. Math. 100, (1976) 149-173
It is cited in many related works. In ...
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Sobolev space of maps between manifolds with boundary
Let $(M,g)$ and $(N,h)$ be compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary.
If we consider the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}(M,N)$, is there a reference
on how to model this as a manifold?
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Weak derivatives and Sobolev spaces on Riemannian manifolds
I am decently experienced on Sobolev spaces on Euclidean spaces, but I just know basic ideas on Riemannian manifolds and want to understand something on Sobolev spaces on them.
Let $(M,g)$ be smooth ...
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Friedrichs mollifiers and Sobolev spaces
$\renewcommand{\epsilon}{\varepsilon}$The following is from John Roe's book Elliptic operators, topology and asymptotic methods. $S$ is a vector bundle on a compact manifold $M$, but I think for my ...
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Is $C^{\infty}(M)$ dense in weighted Sobolev space $W_{X}^{1}(M)$?
Let $M$ be a compact manifold without boudary and let $X_{1},\ldots,X_{m}$ be smooth vector fields on $M$. Consider the following weighted Sobolev space:
$$ W_{X}^{1}(M)=\{f\in L^{2}(M)|X_{j}f\in L^2(...
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Equivalence of Sobolev spaces for different metrics
Consider $M$ a manifold and $g_1, g_2$ two different Riemannian metrics. I want to know how the condition $|\nabla^{g_1,k}(g_1-g_2)|_{g_1}\leq C$ implies that the norms of $|\nabla^{g_1,i}u|_{T^{\...
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Sobolev Multiplication on non-compact manifold
We know that for a compact Riemannian $n$-dim manifold $(M,g)$(the boundary could be nonempty), the Sobolev Multiplication Theorem states that $L^p_k\times L^q_l⟶L^r_m$, where $1/r−m/n>1/p−k/m+1/...
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Proving the inequality $|\nabla |\nabla^r \psi|| \le |\nabla^{r+1} \psi|$
Following Aubin's book "Some nonlinear problems in Riemannian geometry", we use the notation
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|\nabla^r \psi|^2 = \nabla_{\alpha_1}\cdots \nabla_{\alpha_r}\psi \nabla^{\alpha_1}\cdots \nabla^{\...
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Positive square roots of inverse operators on different Sobolev spaces
Let $D$ be a self-adjoint (in the $H^0$-inner product) first-order differential operator on a manifold $M$, where $H^i$ stands for the $i$-th Sobolev space on $M$. Then $D$ extends to a bounded ...
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A question regarding mollifiers on Sobolev spaces on closed manifolds
Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold and denote by $H^s(M), \, s\in \mathbb{R} $ the standard Sobolev spaces on $M$ defined using powers of $1+\triangle$. Let $J_n: \mathcal{D}'(M)\rightarrow \...
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how to use the sobolev inequality to obtain the embedding theorem
I am reading Luca Capogna's article An Embedding theorem and the Harnack inequalitiy for nonlinear subelliptic equations. In this article, the authors proved the following theorem
(Theorem 2.3) Let ...
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Modify the jump set of $BV$ function
Let $u\in BV(\Omega)$ be a function of bounded variation where $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N$ is open bounded with smooth boundary. We use $Du$ to denote the weak derivative of $u$. (So $Du$ is a Radon ...
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Norm equivalent to Sobolev norm? [closed]
On the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$, it is known that the spectrum of the Laplacian satisfies $\text{Spec}(-\Delta) \subset [\frac{(n - 1)^2}{4}, \infty)$. Consider the operator $P = -\Delta + a$, ...
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Sobolev embedding on warped product
Consider the warped product $X = M \times \mathbb{R}$, with the metric $g = dr^2 + \varphi(r) g_M$, where $M$ is a compact manifold. Consider the Sobolev space $H^1(X)$ and let $H^1_{rad}(X)$ denote ...
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Sobolev space and trace theorems on a non-compact Riemannian manifold with boundary ($M \times (0,\infty)$)
Let $M \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a $C^k$ ($k \geq 2$) compact hypersurface of dimension $n-1$ without boundary. Consider $X=M \times (0,\infty)$ which has boundary $\partial X = M \times \{0\}$.
I am ...
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Compactly supported functions and Sobolev spaces on manifolds
It is well-known that if a complete Riemannian manifold has bounded curvature and injectivity radius bounded away from zero, then the space $C^\infty_c(M)$ is dense in the Sobolev spaces $W^{k, p}(M)$ ...
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Tensor product of certain Sobolev spaces on non-compact manifolds
Let $M$ be a non-compact Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry (i.e., its injectivity radius is uniformly positive and the curvature tensor and all its covariant derivatives are bounded in sup-norm)....
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Decay of weak solutions to degenerate parabolic PDEs on manifolds without boundary [closed]
I'm interested in degenerate parabolic equations posed on compact manifolds without boundaries and in particular decay estimates of the weak solution of such equations of the form
$$|u(t)|_{L^p} \leq ...
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Sobolev spaces and geometry
This is a very naive question, is there a way to geometrically understand Sobolev spaces without going through analysis and PDE's? To my knowledge, Sobolev spaces where created precisely to study PDE'...
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If $f \in H^{\frac 12}$ and $\varphi$ is Lipschitz, is $f\varphi \in H^{\frac 12}$ (on a Lipschitz hypersurface)?
Let $M$ be a bounded hypersurface. Let $f \in H^{\frac 12}(M)$ and let $\varphi\colon M \to \mathbb{R}$ be a Lipschitz function.
When $M=\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ an open domain, we know that the ...
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Sobolev imbedding on Riemannian manifolds
Let $(M, g)$ be a non-compact smooth Riemannian manifold of dimension $n \ge 2$, and $G$ a subgroup of the isometry group of $(M,g)$, say with $G$ contained in the component of the identy.
Let $W^{1,...
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