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We consider the measure-geometric Laplacians $\Delta^{\mu}$ with respect to atomless compactly supported Borel probability measures $\mu$ as introduced by Freiberg and Z\"ahle in 2002 and show that the harmonic calculus of $\Delta^{\mu}$…

The main goals of this paper are: i) To develop an abstract differential calculus on metric measure spaces by investigating the duality relations between differentials and gradients of Sobolev functions. This will be achieved without…

In 2002 Freiberg and Z\"ahle introduced and developed a harmonic calculus for measure-geometric Laplacians associated to continuous distributions. We show their theory can be extended to encompass distributions with finite support and give…

We study the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian $\Delta_{\mu}=\frac{d}{d\mu}\frac{d}{dx}$ for a Borel probability measure $\mu$ on the interval $[0,1]$ by a technique that follows the treatment of the classical eigenvalue…

This is the second of two works concerning the Sobolev calculus on metric measure spaces and its applications. In this work, we focus on several approaches to vector calculus in the non-smooth setting of complete and separable metric spaces…

For a second order differential operator $A(\msx) =-\nabla a(\msx)\nabla + b'(\msx)\nabla+ \nabla \big(\msb''(\msx) \cdot\big)$ on a bounded domain $D$ with the Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partial D$ there exists the inverse…

We consider the operators \[ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X),\ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X)-\partial_t,\ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X)+X\cdot\nabla_Y-\partial_t, \] where $X\in \Omega$, $(X,t)\in \Omega\times \mathbb R$ and $(X,Y,t)\in…

{Let $N, k$ be positive integers with $k\geq 2$, and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$ be a domain.} By the well-known properties of the Laplacian and the gradient, we have \[ \Delta(f\cdot g)(x)=g(x) \Delta f(x)+f(x) \Delta g(x)+2\langle…

We present an analytic approach on how to solve the problem $|\nabla u|=f(u)$, $\Delta u = g(u)$, in connected domains $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$.

In Part I of the present series of papers, we adumbrate our idea of Riemannian geometry to higher order in the infinitesimals and derive expressions for the appropriate generalizations of parallel transport and the Riemannian curvature…

We consider Gaussian measures $\mu, \tilde{\mu}$ on a separable Hilbert space, with fractional-order covariance operators $A^{-2\beta}$ resp. $\tilde{A}^{-2\tilde{\beta}}$, and derive necessary and sufficient conditions on $A, \tilde{A}$…

We study {\em $\nabla$-Sobolev spaces} and {\em $\nabla$-differential operators} with coefficients in general Hermitian vector bundles on Riemannian manifolds, stressing a coordinate free approach that uses connections (which are typically…

We construct a strong Feller process associated with $-\Delta + \sigma \cdot \nabla$, with drift $\sigma$ in a wide class of measures (weakly form-bounded measures, e.g. combining weak $L^d$ and Kato class measure singularities), by…

We show how the measure theory of regular compacted-Borel measures defined on the $\delta$-ring of compacted-Borel subsets of a weighted locally compact group $(G,\omega)$ provides a compatible framework for defining the corresponding…

Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be an open set, where $n \geq 2$. Suppose $\omega $ is a locally finite Borel measure on $\Omega$. For $\alpha \in (0,2)$, define the fractional Laplacian $(-\triangle )^{\alpha/2}$ via the Fourier…

The motivation of this paper is to study a second order elliptic operator which appears naturally in Riemannian geometry, for instance in the study of hypersurfaces with constant $r$-mean curvature. We prove a generalized Bochner-type…

Let $K_1$, $\dots$, $K_n$ be bounded, complete, separable metric spaces. Let $\lambda_i$ be a Borel probability measure on $K_i$ for each $i$. Let $f:\prod_i K_i \to \mathbb{R}$ be a bounded and continuous potential function, and let…

We study parabolic operators H = $\partial$t -- div $\lambda$,x A(x, t)$\nabla$ $\lambda$,x in the parabolic upper half space R n+2 + = {($\lambda$, x, t) : $\lambda$ > 0}. We assume that the coefficients are real, bounded, measurable,…

In the first section we provide a solution to the M. G. Krein problem about an inner description of the space $L_2(\Sigma,H).$ In the second section we introduce the multiplicity function for an operator measure. Making use of the…

In the context of a geodesically complete Riemannian manifold $M$, we study the self-adjointness of $\nabla^{\dagger}\nabla+V$ where $\nabla$ is a metric covariant derivative (with formal adjoint $\nabla^{\dagger}$) on a Hermitian vector…