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Besov regularity of solutions to the p-Poisson equation
In this paper, we study the regularity of solutions to the -Poisson
equation for all . In particular, we are interested in smoothness
estimates in the adaptivity scale , , of Besov spaces. The regularity in this scale determines the
order of approximation that can be achieved by adaptive and other nonlinear
approximation methods. It turns out that, especially for solutions to
-Poisson equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on bounded
polygonal domains, the Besov regularity is significantly higher than the
Sobolev regularity which justifies the use of adaptive algorithms. This type of
results is obtained by combining local H\"older with global Sobolev estimates.
In particular, we prove that intersections of locally weighted H\"older spaces
and Sobolev spaces can be continuously embedded into the specific scale of
Besov spaces we are interested in. The proof of this embedding result is based
on wavelet characterizations of Besov spaces.Comment: 45 pages, 2 figure
Sparse polynomial approximation of parametric elliptic PDEs. Part II: lognormal coefficients
Elliptic partial differential equations with diffusion coefficients of
lognormal form, that is , where is a Gaussian random field, are
considered. We study the summability properties of the Hermite
polynomial expansion of the solution in terms of the countably many scalar
parameters appearing in a given representation of . These summability
results have direct consequences on the approximation rates of best -term
truncated Hermite expansions. Our results significantly improve on the state of
the art estimates available for this problem. In particular, they take into
account the support properties of the basis functions involved in the
representation of , in addition to the size of these functions. One
interesting conclusion from our analysis is that in certain relevant cases, the
Karhunen-Lo\`eve representation of may not be the best choice concerning
the resulting sparsity and approximability of the Hermite expansion
On the p-Laplace operator on Riemannian manifolds
This thesis covers different aspects of the p-Laplace operators on Riemannian
manifolds. Chapter 2. Potential theoretic aspects: the Khasmkinskii condition.
Chapter 3: sharp eigenvalue estimates with Ricci curvature lower bounds.
Chapter 4: Critical sets of (2-)harmonic functions.Comment: PhD Thesis: Contains results obtained in collaboration with other
mathematicians, see section 1.4 for details. ADDED IN THIS VERSION:
correction of few typos, and added a reference brought to our attention by an
anonymous referee. Details in the introduction, end of section 1.
Weak observability estimates for 1-D wave equations with rough coefficients
In this paper we prove observability estimates for 1-dimensional wave
equations with non-Lipschitz coefficients. For coefficients in the Zygmund
class we prove a "classical" observability estimate, which extends the
well-known observability results in the energy space for regularity. When
the coefficients are instead log-Lipschitz or log-Zygmund, we prove
observability estimates "with loss of derivatives": in order to estimate the
total energy of the solutions, we need measurements on some higher order
Sobolev norms at the boundary. This last result represents the intermediate
step between the Lipschitz (or Zygmund) case, when observability estimates hold
in the energy space, and the H\"older one, when they fail at any finite order
(as proved in \cite{Castro-Z}) due to an infinite loss of derivatives. We also
establish a sharp relation between the modulus of continuity of the
coefficients and the loss of derivatives in the observability estimates. In
particular, we will show that under any condition which is weaker than the
log-Lipschitz one (not only H\"older, for instance), observability estimates
fail in general, while in the intermediate instance between the Lipschitz and
the log-Lipschitz ones they can hold only admitting a loss of a finite number
of derivatives. This classification has an exact counterpart when considering
also the second variation of the coefficients.Comment: submitte
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