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Choosing the weight in a particular definition of Besov spaces
Following Giovanni Leoni's excellent book (or the Wikipedia article) one possible way to define the Besov spaces $B^{s,p,\theta}(\mathbb R ^d)$, with $s\in(0,1)$ the fractional "order of derivative" ...
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Alberti rank-one theorem and reduction of the study of BV function to the two-dimensional case
By Alberti rank-one theorem, could it be possible to reduce the study of a function $u \in BV(\mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{R}^N)$ to the study of a function $\tilde{u} \in BV(\mathbb{R}^2, \mathbb{R}^2)$? At ...
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Singular integral of the composition of the Hilbert transform and fractional Laplacian
Given $0<s<1$, we can define the Fractional Laplacian by
$$\Lambda^{-s}f(x):=(-\Delta)^{-s/2}(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|x-y|^{-1+s}f(y)dy$$
or by means of Fourier transform as $$\widehat{\...
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A Question on certain Hilbert space of continuous functions, and a characteristic of convergence in it
Define $T^k(\Omega)$, $\Omega$ an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^m$ (with a smooth boundary), as a space of function equivalance classes, with the norm defined as $$ \|f\|_{T^k(\Omega)}^2 = \|f\|_{L^2(...
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Relative boundedness of the adjoint
Let $X$ be a separable Banach space and $T_1:D(T_1) \subset X \rightarrow X$ and $T_2:D(T_2) \subset X \rightarrow X$ two closed operators with $D(T_2)\subset D(T_1)$ and $D(T_2^*) \subset D(T_1^*).$
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Propagation of singularities and the Schrodinger equation
I always thought that the propagation of singularities theorem by Hörmander says (on $\mathbb R^n$ for a classical symbol $p(x,\xi)=\xi^2+V(x)$) that for a Schrödinger equation
$$(i \partial_t-p(x,D))...
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Shifting Sobolev norms in a hyperbolic estimate
Suppose $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $\omega \subset \Omega$. Suppose we have the following estimate:
$$ \|u\|_{H^1((0,T) \times\Omega)} \leq C (\|u\|_{H^1((0,T) \times \omega)} + \|\Box u\|_{L^2((...
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A Gagliardo--Nirenberg inequality in $H^2(\mathbb R^4)$
Does the following inequality hold in $H^2(\mathbb R^4)$
$$
\sup_{u \in H^2(\mathbb R^4), u\not\equiv 0} \frac{\|u\|_4^4}{\|\Delta u\|_2^2 \|u\|_2^2} > \frac1{16 \pi^2}?
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System of Poisson equations
Let $(M,g)$ be a closed (compact and without boundary) and oriented Riemannian manifold and let us consider the Poisson equation for a smooth function $\varphi$:
$\Delta \phi = f$,
where $f$ is a ...
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Is the vanishing on boundary condition for the eigenvalue problem of the $p$-Laplacian important?
Consider the eigenvalue problem of the $p$-Laplacian, $$-\Delta _p u=\lambda |u|^{p-2}u,\ u\in W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)$$
In most of the literature I saw, an extra condition is mentioned that $u$ vanish on ...
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singular integral operators
Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a compact domain with smooth boundary and suppose that $g$ is smooth. Let $g_D$ and $g_N$ denote the Dirichlet and Neumann green functions for the Laplace-Beltrami operator.
My ...
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Which sets support which spectra?
I know (and this is of course rather elementary) that an isolated point in the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator $T$ always belongs to the point-spectrum.
I would like to ask: Are there similar ...
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Eigenvalues of elliptic operator analytic with respect to a parameter
I am interested when one can say the eigenvalues of an elliptic operator
are real analytic with respect to a parameter. In particular I have seen many people say the first eigenvalue is analytic but ...
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Implicit function theorem for operators
Let $P: (-a,a) \rightarrow \Psi_h^0(\mathbb{R}),$ be a pseudodifferential operator in Weyl quantization with $(-a,a) \ni z \mapsto P(z)$ depending smoothly on this parameter $z$. Note that this ...
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Direct proof of fact $u \in C(U)$ satisfies $|Du| \ge 1$ in sense of viscosity if and only if property holds
Is it possible anybody could sketch me a direct proof of the fact that $u \in C(U)$ satisfies $|Du| \ge 1$ in the sense of viscosity if and only if the following property holds?
If $V \subseteq U$ is ...
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Positivity of solution of Poisson equation
Let $B$ denote the unit ball centered at the origin in $R^N$ and take $N \ge 3$. Let $( \phi_k(\theta), \lambda_k)$ for $ k \ge 0$ denote the Eigenpairs of $ -\Delta_\theta$ on $S^{N-1}$ which are $L^...
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compactness of sequence of harmonic functions
Let $ \Omega$ denote a smooth bounded domain in $ R^N$ and let $u_m \in C^\infty( \overline{\Omega})$ harmonic functions. We also suppose $ u_m$ is bounded in $L^2(\Omega)$ (uniformly in $m$).
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Verifying a claim regarding $H^1$ weak convergence and $L^2$ strong convergence on a surface
I'm reading a paper whose first section discussed $H^1$ maps defined on star-shaped sets, but I got stuck in verifying a claim for quite a while. I'm now thinking the claim is wrong, but it's hard to ...
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Existence of a viscosity solution
Setup
I'm trying to find sufficient conditions for the existence of a viscosity solution to the following PDE,
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f(t,s,z) + \partial_sf(t,s,z) \\
+ \sum_{i=1}^{\infty} \left[
\partial_{z_i} f(t,s,z)...
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determine when $e^{ikx}$ can be boundary value of a holomorphic function
Assume that $\Gamma=\{x+if(x): x\in \mathbb{R}\}$ is a graph, separating $\mathbb{C}$ into two connected components. Let's denote the one below $\Gamma$ by $\Omega$.
My question is, for what curves $...
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Given a fixed convex domain $\Omega$ in 3D, for what value $c$ the function $f(c) := \int_{\partial \Omega} |x-c| d \sigma_x$ gets its minimum?
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded smooth convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$, then consider the following minimization problem:
$$\inf_{c \in \overline{\Omega}} f(c), \quad f(c) := \int_{\partial \Omega} |x-c| ...
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The eigenfunction of modified $1$-laplace equation?
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ be open bounded with smooth boundary. It is well known that the laplace equation
$$
-\Delta u=0
$$
has a set of eigenvalues $0<\lambda_1<\lambda_2\leq\lambda_3<...
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The jump set of $SBV$ function for different value of parameter in image denoising problem
The classical Mumford-Shah image denoisng problem study the minimizer of the following functional, for each $\alpha>0$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ is open bounded with sommth boundary,
$$
u_\...
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The decay rate of the spectrum of the Gaussian kernel on compact manifolds
It seems that the $k^{th}$ largest eigenvalue of the intergral operator induced on $S^n$ by the Gaussian kernel, $e^{-\frac{\vert \vec{x} - \vec{y} \vert _2^2}{2\sigma^2}}$ decays as $k^{-k}$. This is ...
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Perturbation in Besov space
$\|f\|_{B^{0}_{p,p}}=(\sum_{j\geq -1} \|\Delta_j f\|_p^p)^{1/p}$ is the Besov norm of $f$.
Here the Fourier transform of $\Delta_jf~(j\geq 0)$ is $\psi(2^{-j}\xi)\hat{f}(\xi)$ and $\psi$ is a smooth ...
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On the differentiability of a certain map from $ (0,\infty) $ to $ \Bbb{R} $
This problem arose from my study of energy-conservation for non-linear Schrödinger equations. Suppose that we have the following data:
$ u \in C^{1} \! \left( (0,\infty),{L^{2}}(\Bbb{R}^{n}) \right) $...
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A Question about compactness of an embedding into $L^p$ spaces
Assume $ \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is a smooth bounded domain. There is well known Hardy inequality that says
For any $ u \in W_0^{1,2}(\Omega) $, $N\geq3$ we have
$$ \Lambda \int_{\Omega} \frac{u^...
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Heat equation inequality
There is an inequality that tells us that for some sufficiently smooth $f$ satisfying $(\partial_t - \Delta )f \le - \delta f^2 +K$ for $\delta,K >0$ that $f$ is bounded by some constant. ...
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variation norm of a Fourier transform
Motivated by certain uniform estimate in oscillatory integrals, I am now trying to calculate the Fourier transform of the function ${\large e^{i|t|^{\epsilon}}/t}$ on $\mathbb{R}$, where $\epsilon\in (...
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Boundary gradient estimate
Assume $U$ is the unit disk and $\bar U$ its closure and let $u\in C^2(U)\cap C(\bar U)$ be a real function, with $u(z)=0$ for $z\in \partial U$. If $$|\Delta u|\le A|\nabla u|^2+g(z),$$ for some ...
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Bound for a certain integral expression
I am working to establish an estimate in $X^{s,b}$ spaces to prove local well-posedness of a certain equation, and I need to consider some sub-cases. In particular, I wish to show that the following ...
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Extension of solutions of PDE
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$ be an open set such that $\mathbf{0} \in \Omega$. Let $A := \Omega \setminus (\{0\}\times \mathbb{R})$, that is, $A$ is $\Omega$ with the $y$-axis removed.
Let $F:...
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Curl-Div equation with singular matrix
I want to solve the equation:
$$
\begin{cases}
\nabla \times (A \mathbf v)=f, \quad x\in \Omega \\
\operatorname{div}(\mathbf v)=0,
\end{cases}
$$
where $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^n$, is an open set, $...
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Compactness and Leray-Schauder degree
What's the relationship between compactness of solutions in partial differential equations (PDEs) and the Leray-Schauder degree?
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Derivate involving Bessel function of second type
Let.
$$f := (x, y) \mapsto \text{BesselK}(1, c \cdot (a - b \cdot (x + y))) \cdot \exp(c \cdot b \cdot (y - x))$$
Is there a close formula for this $$\frac{\partial^{m+n}}{\partial y^m \partial x^n} f(...
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Integral of a measurable function with parameter is measurable?
Say that $f:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$, where $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ is an open set, is a function such that:
$f(x,\cdot)\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R})$ for a.a. $x\in\Omega$
$f(\...
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Sufficient condition for interpolation
If we have a couple of two compatible banach spaces (in this sense) $(X,Y)$ and a sequence of Banach spaces $\{Z\}_{\theta\in[0,1]}$ which are intermediate between $X$ and $Y$ satisfying:
$Z_0=X$, $...
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Metric entropy of mixed norm spaces with exponent-free bounds
Suppose $\mathcal{F}\subset L^p([0,1]^d)$ is a subset with the following property: The $L^q$-covering number of $\mathcal{F}$ is independent of $q$, for all $1\le q\le\infty$. An example of $\mathcal{...
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Non-linearity of viscosity solutions
I am interested in the following problem.
Let consider the solution of the non-linear PDE on $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}$ satifying the following Cauchy problem:
$$
\begin{cases}
u_t = F(u_{xx}),\\
u(0,x) =...
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Properties of "potential vector field" in Helmholtz decomposition
It is a well known fact that given a vector field $F$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$, this can be decomposed as
$$ F= \nabla V+ \nabla \times R$$
with $V$ a potential and $R$ another vector field. These components ...
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Mysterious Bound: $\int_{B_{4}}\|D^{2}u\|^{2} \leq 2^{n}$
I am reading through "A GEOMETRIC APPROACH TO THE CALDERON–ZYGMUND ESTIMATES" by Lihe Wang and I am perplexed by an assertion in Lemma 7. The claim is that whenever $\Delta u = f$:
$$\frac{1}...
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Asking a reference about the $p$-Laplacian of $|\nabla u|^p$
It is well-known that for a harmonic function $u$, i.e.
$$ \Delta u=0, $$
the quantity $|\nabla u|^2$ is subharmonic, i.e.
$$\Delta (|\nabla u|^2) \geq 0. $$
Reason:
$$\Delta (|\nabla u|^2)= 2 \nabla (...
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Morse functions on subset $\bar \Omega$ of $\mathbb {R}^d$ and its level sets
Let $f$ be a $C^{2}(\bar{\Omega})$ Morse function, where $\Omega$ is a bounded open set of $\mathbb{R}^d$: this means that
$$
\begin{cases}
f(x) = 0 \\
\nabla f (x) \neq 0
\end{cases}\text{ on }\...
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Is $C^\infty(\Omega) \cap W^{s_1,p_1}(\Omega)$ dense in $W^{s_2,p_2}(\Omega)$ if $W^{s_1,p_1}(\Omega) \subset W^{s_2,p_2}(\Omega)$?
Background: The proof of Theorem 6.4 in http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~jrossi/Fractional-1-lapla-07_02_2015.pdf, I want to use the density that $C^\infty(\Omega) \cap W^{r_0,q_0}(\Omega) \cap L^2(\Omega)$ is ...
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How does one make sense of singular solutions to constant mean curvature equation?
Background:
Consider the following ODE:
$$\left(\frac{r^2 \dot{f}}{\sqrt{1+r^2(\dot{f})^2}}\right)' = c r$$
where $c$ is some positive constant (Lagrange multiplier), $f:[0,\infty)\to [0,\pi]$ is the ...
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Partial derivative of the Bessel's operator
Let $J^s = (I- \Delta)^{\frac{s}{2}}$ where $\Delta$ is the Laplacian, and $w(x,y) \in L^2(\mathbb{T}^2)$. During my study to the paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02027.pdf, the author stated that
$$\...
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Fractional Laplacian of smooth cut off functions
Suppose we have a smooth compactly supported function $\phi\in C^{\infty}_c(B_\epsilon(0))$ such that $0\leq \phi \leq 1$, $\phi\equiv 1$ on the unit ball and $\phi$ vanishes outside $B_\epsilon(0).$
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A Grönwall-type inequality for $u(t)\le\alpha(t)+\int_0^t\max(u(s),\beta(s))\:{\rm d}s$?
Quick question: Are we able to show a Gronwall-type inequality assuming that $$u(t)\le\alpha(t)+\int_0^t\max(u(s),\beta(s))\:{\rm d}s,$$ where $\alpha$ is nondecreasing (or constant) and $\beta$ is ...
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Weak $H^1$ convergence implies strong $L^p_{\text{loc}}$ convergence
On page 210 of Analysis by by Elliott H. Lieb, Michael Loss (GSM 14), there is a theorem stating that if $f_j \to f$ weakly in $H^1(\mathbb R^n)$ then $\mathbf 1_A f_j \to \mathbf 1_A f$ strongly in $...
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Fractional Laplacian for the product of two functions
Considering the following definition for the fractional Laplacian
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{pointwisedef} (-\Delta)^{s}u(x) & : = & \mathrm{ \mbox{p. v}} \quad a_{d,s} \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}\frac{...
