The Refined Sobolev Scale, Interpolation, and Elliptic Problems

The paper gives a detailed survey of recent results on elliptic problems in Hilbert spaces of generalized smoothness. The latter are the isotropic H\"ormander spaces $H^{s,\varphi}:=B_{2,\mu}$, with $\mu(\xi)=^{s}\varphi()$ for $\xi\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$. They are parametrized by both the real number $s$ and the positive function $\varphi$ varying slowly at $+\infty$ in the Karamata sense. These spaces form the refined Sobolev scale, which is much finer than the Sobolev scale ${H^{s}}\equiv{H^{s,1}}$ and is closed with respect to the interpolation with a function parameter. The Fredholm property of elliptic operators and elliptic boundary-value problems is preserved for this new scale. Theorems of various type about a solvability of elliptic problems are given. A local refined smoothness is investigated for solutions to elliptic equations. New sufficient conditions for the solutions to have continuous derivatives are found. Some applications to the spectral theory of elliptic operators are given.Comment: 69 page

Optimal Lipschitz criteria and local estimates for non-uniformly elliptic problems

We report on new techniques and results in the regularity theory of general non-uniformly elliptic variational integrals. By means of a new potential theoretic approach we reproduce, in the non-uniformly elliptic setting, the optimal criteria for Lipschitz continuity known in the uniformly elliptic one and provide a unified approach between non-uniformly and uniformly elliptic problems

Spectral Optimization Problems

In this survey paper we present a class of shape optimization problems where the cost function involves the solution of a PDE of elliptic type in the unknown domain. In particular, we consider cost functions which depend on the spectrum of an elliptic operator and we focus on the existence of an optimal domain. The known results are presented as well as a list of still open problems. Related fields as optimal partition problems, evolution flows, Cheeger-type problems, are also considered.Comment: 42 pages with 8 figure