Fractional Sobolev Inequalities: Symmetrization, Isoperimetry and Interpolation

We obtain new oscillation inequalities in metric spaces in terms of the Peetre $K-$functional and the isoperimetric profile. Applications provided include a detailed study of Fractional Sobolev inequalities and the Morrey-Sobolev embedding theorems in different contexts. In particular we include a detailed study of Gaussian measures as well as probablity measures between Gaussian and exponential. We show a kind of reverse Polya-Szego principle that allows us to obtain continuity as a self improvement from boundedness, using symetrization inequalities. Our methods also allow for precise estimates of growth envelopes of generalized Sobolev and Besov spaces on metric spaces. We also consider embeddings into $BMO$ and their connection to Sobolev embeddings.Comment: 114 pages, made some editorial changes and made corrections to chapters 3, 4 and

Interpolation of Morrey-Campanato and Related Smoothness Spaces

In this article, the authors study the interpolation of Morrey-Campanato spaces and some smoothness spaces based on Morrey spaces, e.\,g., Besov-type and Triebel-Lizorkin-type spaces. Various interpolation methods, including the complex method, the $\pm$-method and the Peetre-Gagliardo method, are studied in such a framework. Special emphasize is given to the quasi-Banach case and to the interpolation property.Comment: Sci. China Math. (2015

Brezis--Seeger--Van Schaftingen--Yung-Type Characterization of Homogeneous Ball Banach Sobolev Spaces and Its Applications

Let $\gamma\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0\}$ and $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be a ball Banach function space satisfying some mild assumptions. Assume that $\Omega=\mathbb{R}^n$ or $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is an $(\varepsilon,\infty)$-domain for some $\varepsilon\in(0,1]$. In this article, the authors prove that a function $f$ belongs to the homogeneous ball Banach Sobolev space $\dot{W}^{1,X}(\Omega)$ if and only if $f\in L_{\mathrm{loc}}^1(\Omega)$ and $$\sup_{\lambda\in(0,\infty)}\lambda \left\|\left[\int_{\{y\in\Omega:\ |f(\cdot)-f(y)|>\lambda|\cdot-y|^{1+\frac{\gamma}{p}}\}} \left|\cdot-y\right|^{\gamma-n}\,dy \right]^\frac{1}{p}\right\|_{X(\Omega)}<\infty,$$ where $p\in[1,\infty)$ is related to $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$. This result is of wide generality and can be applied to various specific Sobolev-type function spaces, including Morrey, Bourgain--Morrey-type, weighted (or mixed-norm or variable) Lebesgue, local (or global) generalized Herz, Lorentz, and Orlicz (or Orlicz-slice) Sobolev spaces, which is new even in all these special cases; in particular, it is still new even when $X(\Omega):=L^q(\mathbb{R}^n)$ with $1\leq p<q<\infty$. The novelty of this article exists in that, to establish the characterization of $\dot{W}^{1,X}(\Omega)$, the authors provide a machinery via using a generalized Brezis--Seeger--Van Schaftingen--Yung formula on $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$, an extension theorem on $\dot{W}^{1,X}(\Omega)$, a Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu-type characterization of the inhomogeneous ball Banach Sobolev space $W^{1,X}(\Omega)$, and a method of extrapolation to overcome those difficulties caused by that $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ might be neither the rotation invariance nor the translation invariance and that the norm of $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ has no explicit expression.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2304.0094

Extension Theorem and Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu-Type Characterization of Ball Banach Sobolev Spaces on Domains

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded $(\varepsilon,\infty)$-domain with $\varepsilon\in(0,1]$, $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ a ball Banach function space satisfying some mild assumptions, and $\{\rho_\nu\}_{\nu\in(0,\nu_0)}$ with $\nu_0\in(0,\infty)$ a $\nu_0$-radial decreasing approximation of the identity on $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this article, the authors establish two extension theorems, respectively, on the inhomogeneous ball Banach Sobolev space $W^{m,X}(\Omega)$ and the homogeneous ball Banach Sobolev space $\dot{W}^{m,X}(\Omega)$ for any $m\in\mathbb{N}$. On the other hand, the authors prove that, for any $f\in\dot{W}^{1,X}(\Omega)$, $$\lim_{\nu\to0^+} \left\|\left[\int_\Omega\frac{|f(\cdot)-f(y)|^p}{ |\cdot-y|^p}\rho_\nu(|\cdot-y|)\,dy \right]^\frac{1}{p}\right\|_{X(\Omega)}^p =\frac{2\pi^{\frac{n-1}{2}}\Gamma (\frac{p+1}{2})}{\Gamma(\frac{p+n}{2})} \left\|\,\left|\nabla f\right|\,\right\|_{X(\Omega)}^p,$$ where $\Gamma$ is the Gamma function and $p\in[1,\infty)$ is related to $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$. Using this asymptotics, the authors further establish a characterization of $W^{1,X}(\Omega)$ in terms of the above limit. To achieve these, the authors develop a machinery via using a method of the extrapolation, two extension theorems on weighted Sobolev spaces, and some recently found profound properties of $W^{1,X}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ to overcome those difficulties caused by that the norm of $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ has no explicit expression and that $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ might be neither the reflection invariance nor the translation invariance. This characterization has a wide range of generality and can be applied to various Sobolev-type spaces, such as Morrey [Bourgain--Morrey-type, weighted (or mixed-norm or variable), local (or global) generalized Herz, Lorentz, and Orlicz (or Orlicz-slice)] Sobolev spaces, all of which are new.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2307.10528, arXiv:2304.0094

Recent Developments of Function Spaces and Their Applications I

This book includes 13 papers concerning some of the recent progress in the theory of function spaces and its applications. The involved function spaces include Morrey and weak Morrey spaces, Hardy-type spaces, John–Nirenberg spaces, Sobolev spaces, and Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces on different underlying spaces, and they are applied in the study of problems ranging from harmonic analysis to potential analysis and partial differential equations, such as the boundedness of paraproducts and Calderón operators, the characterization of pointwise multipliers, estimates of anisotropic logarithmic potential, as well as certain Dirichlet problems for the Schrödinger equation

Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Fractional Regularity Data: The First Order Approach

We study well-posedness of boundary value problems of Dirichlet and Neumann type for elliptic systems on the upper half-space with coefficients independent of the transversal variable, and with boundary data in fractional Besov-Hardy-Sobolev (BHS) spaces. Our approach uses minimal assumptions on the coefficients, and in particular does not require De Giorgi-Nash-Moser estimates. Our results are completely new for the Hardy-Sobolev case, and in the Besov case they extend results recently obtained by Barton and Mayboroda. First we develop a theory of BHS spaces adapted to operators which are bisectorial on $L^2$, with bounded $H^\infty$ functional calculus on their ranges, and which satisfy $L^2$ off-diagonal estimates. In particular, this theory applies to perturbed Dirac operators $DB$. We then prove that for a nontrivial range of exponents (the identification region) the BHS spaces adapted to $DB$ are equal to those adapted to $D$ (which correspond to classical BHS spaces). Our main result is the classification of solutions of the elliptic system $\operatorname{div} A \nabla u = 0$ within a certain region of exponents. More precisely, we show that if the conormal gradient of a solution belongs to a weighted tent space (or one of their real interpolants) with exponent in the classification region, and in addition vanishes at infinity in a certain sense, then it has a trace in a BHS space, and can be represented as a semigroup evolution of this trace in the transversal direction. As a corollary, any such solution can be represented in terms of an abstract layer potential operator. Within the classification region, we show that well-posedness is equivalent to a certain boundary projection being an isomorphism. We derive various consequences of this characterisation, which are illustrated in various situations, including in particular that of the Regularity problem for real equations.Comment: Changed title and fixed some minor typos. To appear in the CRM Monograph Serie

Second order elliptic operators with complex bounded measurable coefficients in LpL^p, Sobolev and Hardy spaces

Let $L$ be a second order divergence form elliptic operator with complex bounded measurable coefficients. The operators arising in connection with $L$, such as the heat semigroup and Riesz transform, are not, in general, of Calder\'on-Zygmund type and exhibit behavior different from their counterparts built upon the Laplacian. The current paper aims at a thorough description of the properties of such operators in $L^p$, Sobolev, and some new Hardy spaces naturally associated to $L$. First, we show that the known ranges of boundedness in $L^p$ for the heat semigroup and Riesz transform of $L$, are sharp. In particular, the heat semigroup $e^{-tL}$ need not be bounded in $L^p$ if $p\not\in [2n/(n+2),2n/(n-2)]$. Then we provide a complete description of {\it all} Sobolev spaces in which $L$ admits a bounded functional calculus, in particular, where $e^{-tL}$ is bounded. Secondly, we develop a comprehensive theory of Hardy and Lipschitz spaces associated to $L$, that serves the range of $p$ beyond $[2n/(n+2),2n/(n-2)]$. It includes, in particular, characterizations by the sharp maximal function and the Riesz transform (for certain ranges of $p$), as well as the molecular decomposition and duality and interpolation theorems