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In this paper, we first present simple proofs of Choi's results [4], then we give a short alternative proof for Fiedler and Markham's inequality [6]. We also obtain additional matrix inequalities related to partial determinants.
We consider fractional Sobolev spaces $H^\theta$, $\theta\in (0,1)$, on 2D domains and $H^1$-conforming discretizations by globally continuous piecewise polynomials on a mesh consisting of shape-regular triangles and quadrilaterals. We…
In this note, we establish a strong form of the quantitive Sobolev inequality in Euclidean space for $p \in (1,n)$. Given any function $u \in \dot W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, the gap in the Sobolev inequality controls $\| \nabla u -\nabla…
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain of $\mathbf{R}^{N},$ $N\geq2.$ Let, for $p>N,$ \[ \Lambda_{p}(\Omega):=\inf\left\{ \left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert _{p}^{p}:u\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\quad and\quad\left\Vert u\right\Vert _{\infty}=1\right\} .…
We study continuity properties of Sobolev mappings $f \in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,n} (\Omega, \mathbb{R}^n)$, $n \ge 2$, that satisfy the following generalized finite distortion inequality \[\lvert Df(x)\rvert^n \leq K(x) J_f(x) + \Sigma (x)\]…
For each $p>2$ we give intrinsic characterizations of the restriction of the homogeneous Sobolev space $L^1_p(R^2)$ to an arbitrary finite subset $E$ of $R^2$. The trace criterion is expressed in terms of certain weighted oscillations of…
We prove a result on the fractional Sobolev regularity of composition of paths of low fractional Sobolev regularity with functions of bounded variation. The result relies on the notion of variability, proposed by us in the previous article…
Let s 1 ,. .. , s k be the elementary symmetric functions of the complex variables x 1 ,. .. , x k. We say that F $\in$ C[s 1 ,. .. , s k ] is a trace function if their exists f $\in$ C[z] such that F (s 1 ,. .. , s k ] = k j=1 f (x j) for…
We consider the eigenvalue problem for the fractional $p \& q-$Laplacian \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{aligned} (- \Delta)_p^{s}\, u + \mu(- \Delta)_q^{s}\, u+ |u|^{p-2}u+\mu|u|^{q-2}u=\lambda\ V(x)|u|^{p-2}u\quad & \text{in } \Omega\\…
In this article, we study the following parabolic equation involving the fractional Laplacian with singular nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \quad (P_{t}^s) \left\{ \begin{split} \quad u_t + (-\Delta)^s u &= u^{-q} + f(x,u), \;u >0\;…
Let $(\Omega, \mu)$, $(\Delta, \nu)$ be measure spaces. Let $(\{f_\alpha\}_{\alpha\in \Omega}, \{\tau_\alpha\}_{\alpha\in \Omega})$ and $(\{g_\beta\}_{\beta\in \Delta}, \{\omega_\beta\}_{\beta\in \Delta})$ be continuous p-Schauder frames…
$\Gamma$-convergence methods are used to prove homogenization results for fractional obstacle problems in periodically perforated domains. The obstacles have random sizes and shapes and their capacity scales according to a stationary…
This book provides a gentle introduction to fractional Sobolev spaces, which play a central role in the calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and harmonic analysis. The first part deals with fractional Sobolev spaces of…
We work in a class of Sobolev $W^{1,p}$ maps, with $p > d-1$, from a bounded open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ to $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ that do not exhibit cavitation and whose trace on $\partial \Omega$ is also $W^{1,p}$. Under the…
We obtain new characterizations of the Sobolev spaces $\dot W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ and the bounded variation space $\dot{BV}(\mathbb{R}^N)$. The characterizations are in terms of the functionals $\nu_{\gamma} (E_{\lambda,\gamma/p}[u])$…
In this paper, we present a new extension of the famous Serrin's lower semicontinuity theorem for the variational functional $\int_{\Omega}f(x,u,u')dx$,we prove its lower semicontinuity in $W_{loc}^{1,1}(\Omega)$ with respect to the strong…
Using the convolution product and weak derivatives, we consider the partial dynamical systems of the locally convex $L^p(\Omega)$ spaces defined by the action of the smooth algebra $\mathscr{K}(\Omega)$ through its nets. Slice analysis is…
We consider convex trace functions $\Phi_{p,q,s} = Trace[ (A^{q/2}B^p A^{q/2})^s]$ where $A$ and $B$ are positive $n\times n$ matrices and ask when these functions are convex or concave. We also consider operator convexity/concavity of…
In this paper we study the problem of minimizing the Sobolev trace Rayleigh quotient $\|u\|_{W^{1,p}(\Omega)}^p / \|u\|_{L^q(\partial\Omega)}^p$ among functions that vanish in a set contained on the boundary $\partial\Omega$ of given…
When a function belonging to a fractional-order Sobolev space is supported in a proper subset of the Lipschitz domain on which the Sobolev space is defined, how is its Sobolev norm as a function on the smaller set compared to its norm on…