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Singular support: equivalent definition
Let $U\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ be an open set. The singular support of a distribution $u\in\mathcal{D}^{\prime}(U)$ is defined to be the compliment of the set of points, which have a neighbourhood in ...
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Dependence of Sobolev embedding theorem constant on smoothness
Assume that $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is "nice" enough and $k$ is a positive real number. Using the Sobolev embedding theorem, we can get that
$$
\|f\|_{W^{0,2d/(d-2k)}\ \ \ \ \ (\Omega)}...
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About definition of stable solution. $Q_u(\phi) \ge 0$ for all $\phi \in C_c^1(\Omega)$ replaced by "for all $\phi \in W_0^{1,2}(\Omega)$"
I want to ask about a remark about the stable solution of elliptic PDE Remark 1.1.1.
We say $u$ is stable solution of $-\Delta u=f(u) \ \text { in } \Omega$ and $u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$ if it ...
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Continuity of an upper semi-continuous function over periodic points
Let $f: X \to \mathbb{R}$ be an upper semi-continuous function on $X$, which is a compact subspace of a vector space. Let sequence $x_n, n \in \mathbb{N}$, with positive elements - periodic: there ...
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How to give a counterexample of this estimate related to Paley-Littlewood theorem?
I am studying Paley-Littlewood theorem in Harmonic analysis, and I met an exercise. I would like to construct a function $f$ as a counterexample to show that the inequality
\begin{equation}
\| f \|^...
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Ramanujan's Master Formula: A proof and relation to umbral calculus
The Ramanujan's master theorem states that:
$$
\int_0^{\infty}x^{s-1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^n}{n!}a_nx^ndx=\Gamma(s)a_{-s}
$$
I found a really strange proof recently on a personal blog:
Define
$...
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Is there any strengthened version of Rademacher's Theorem or any counterexample?
The following theorem is well-known in the ordinary analysis textbook:
Theorem: Assume the function $f:U\to\Bbb R^n$ is Lipschitz continuous on an open set $U\subset\Bbb R^m$, then $f$ is almost ...
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Sequential separability on $C_p(X)$
Definition. Let $E$ be a topological space. Suppose that $E$ contains a sequence $\{x_n\}$ such that for every $x\in E$, there exists a subsequence $\{x_{n_k}\}$ of $\{x_n\}$ with $x=\lim x_{n_k}$. ...
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A limit arising from Mellin Inversion: How to compute a specific term of an asymptotic series?
So I am wondering if there exists a general procedure for the following problem:
given a monotonically increasing function $f(n)$ which is nonegative on the interval $[0,\infty)$ and grows faster than ...
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Does a measurable $F :[0, T] \to L^p (\mathbb R^d; \mathbb R_{\ge 0})$ have a "flattened" measurable version?
Let $d \in \mathbb N^*,p \in [1, \infty]$ and $T>0$. Let
$$
F :[0, T] \to L^p (\mathbb R^d; \mathbb R_{\ge 0}), t \mapsto F_t
$$
be measurable. I would like to ask if there is a measurable function ...
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Is there a real/functional analytic proof of Cramér–Lévy theorem?
In the book Gaussian Measures in Finite and Infinite Dimensions by Stroock, there is a theorem with a comment
The following remarkable theorem was discovered by Cramér and Lévy. So far as I know, ...
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Self-adjointness of fractional laplacian
Lets consider the following functional analytic definition of the fractional Laplacian: Consider a (complete, connected, oriented) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with corresponding Laplacian $\Delta_{g}$....
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Spectrum of operator involving ladder operators
The ladder operator in quantum mechanics are the operators
$$a^\dagger \ = \ \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(-\frac{d}{dq} + q\right)$$
and
$$a \ \ = \ \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(\ \ \ \!\frac{d}{dq} + q\...
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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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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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Proofs of Young's inequality for convolution
For $1\leq p,q \leq \infty$ such that $\frac1p +\frac1q\geq 1$, Young's inequality states $\|f\star g\|_r\leq \|f\|_p\|g\|_q$ (we work on $\mathbf{R}^d$ here), where $1+\frac1r = \frac1p+\frac1q$. ...
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Do two ways to differentiate Lipschitz functions coincide?
Let $f\colon \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ be a Lipschitz function on an open subset $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$.
By the Rademacher theorem $f$ has first derivative almost everywhere. We denote it $\nabla f$...
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Density of restrictions of harmonic functions inside a ball
Let $B$ be the closed unit ball in $\mathbb R^3$ centered at the origin and let $U= \{x\in \mathbb R^3\,:\, \frac{1}{2}\leq |x| \leq 1\}.$ Let
$$ S_U= \{u \in C^{\infty}(U)\,:\, \Delta u =0 \quad\text{...
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Why is $\frac{1}{|x|^{n-2}}u(\frac{x}{|x|^2})$ harmonic if $u$ is harmonic?
I found myself trying to prove the following, but I had to compute everything explicitly.
It is well known that if $u:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ is an harmonic function on $\mathbb{R}^n$, then the so-...
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Convergence of the infima of convex functions on $\mathbb{R}^m$
Any thoughts on proving the following statement, which is a generalization of the result in convergence of the infima of convex functions from domain $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}^m$ and also Theorem 1 ...
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Is there a modification of $f$ on a null set such that $F: [0, T] \to L^p ({\mathbb R}^d), t \mapsto f(t,\cdot)$ is Bochner measurable?
Let $T>0$ and $p \in [1, \infty)$. Let $f \in L^p ([0, T] \times {\mathbb R}^d)$. By a theorem in this thread, there is a Lebesgue null subset $N$ of $[0, T]$ such that $f(t, \cdot)$ is Lebesgue ...
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Under what conditions is $\lim_{x\to a}\left|\varphi\circ f(x)-\tau \circ g(x)\right|=0$ true?
This question is inspired from another much easier problem I was trying to solve which I tried to generalize. The question is essentially as follows (assuming all the limits exist)
If $a\in \mathbb R\...
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Bounds on dimension of a subspace
Let $I=(0,1)$ and let $C>1$ be a constant. Let $L^2(I)$ and $H^1(I)$ be the standard Sobolev spaces on $I$. Suppose that $U$ is a subspace of $H^1(I)$ with the additional property that:
$$ \| u\|_{...
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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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Most general reverse Hölder inequality for polynomials
Theorem. Let $m$ be an integer and $P_m$ the vector space of degree $m$ polynomials in one real variable. There is a constant $C$ such that, for all $a<b$ and $p \in P_m$,
$$\|p\|_{L^\infty(a,b)} \...
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Is square of Delta function defined somewhere?
I am wondering whether anyone knows if the square of Dirac Delta function is defined somewhere.
In the beginning, this question might look strange. But by restricting the space of the test functions, ...
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Convergence in sequential Lebesgue spaces
Consider a strictly increasing sequence $1\leq q_0<q_n<q_{n+1}<q$ such that $q_n\to q$ as $n\to \infty$. Let $B\subset \Bbb R^d$ be a ball, so that $L^{q}(B)\subset L^{q_{n+1}}(B)\subset L^{...
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On an integral equation
Let $B: C^{\infty}([0,1]^3)$ satisfy
$$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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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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Lebesgue differentiation theorem at boundary points for Sobolev traces
$\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb R}$
Let $\Omega\subset \R^d$ be a smooth, bounded open set and fix $p\geq 1$.
Fact 1: the usual Lebesgue differentiation theorem says that, if $u\in L^p(\Omega)$, then
$$
u(x)...
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How much "room" in inequality $\displaystyle \int_a^b \varphi' ov ~\mathrm{d}x \leq 0$
Let $[a, b]$ be a nonempty interval, $o \in C^1([a, b])$ be such that $o>0$ and $o'<0$ and assume we found some $v \in L^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ such that
\begin{equation}\tag{1}\label{1}
\int_a^b \...
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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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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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$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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Family of functions with prescribed derivatives
Suppose $f: \mathbb C \times (-1,1) \to \mathbb C$ is a smooth function that satisfies $f(0,t)=1$ for all $t\in (-1,1)$. Assume that for any $k\in \mathbb N$, any $z \in \mathbb C$ and any $t \in (-1,...
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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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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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Looking for references to study $U^p$ and $V^p$ spaces
I am studying some papers in the analysis of nonlinear PDEs and I am encountering the $U^p$ and $V^p$ spaces for the first time. Where can I find references more detailed than papers?
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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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$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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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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Embedding theorems for Dini continuous functions
Are there embedding theorems for the space of Dini continuous functions on a Euclidean domain, or even just on an interval? Ideally, I am looking for something like the classical Morrey inequalities ...
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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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Lipschitz mappings, covering dimension
Is there a compact metric space $X$ of covering dimension $2$ without a Lipschitz surjection on $[0,1]^2$?
For a space $X$ with Hausdorff dimension greater than $2$, we have a negative answer (see ...
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Vague convergence VS Laplace transform convergence?
If we assume that $\int_0^\infty e^{-sx}\mu_n(dx)\to \int_0^\infty e^{-sx}\mu(dx), \forall s\geq0$, it is possible to show that $\mu_n\to\mu$ vaguely. Where $\mu_n$ is a measure. Please check here for ...
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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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Finite dimensionality of a subspace
Let $c>0$ and let $Y$ be the space of all distributions of compact support in $(-1,1)$ with singular support at $\{0\}$. Let $X$ be subspace of $Y$ such that for any $\phi \in X$ there holds:
$$ \...
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Riemann-Liouville integral of $f$ is zero implies $f =0$ a.e
The Riemann-Liouville integral is defined by
$$
I^\alpha f(x)=\frac{1}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int_a^x f(t)(x-t)^{\alpha-1} d t
$$
where $\Gamma$ is the gamma function and $a$ is an arbitrary but fixed base ...
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A periodic integral inequality
(This problem comes in connection with a geometric problem exposed here.)
Let $\gamma(x,y)$ be a (real) function on the unit disk such that
$$
\frac{\partial^2\gamma}{\partial x \, \partial y} = 0\:\:\...
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What does "a universal tree" mean?
It is one of the concepts used in "ON THE REPRESENTATION OF CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES AS SUPERPOSITIONS OF CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS OF A SMALLER NUMBER OF VARIABLES", in the ...
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