Related papers: Positivity and strong ellipticity

Second order divergence form operators are studied on an open set with various boundary conditions. It is shown that the p-ellipticity condition of Carbonaro-Dragicevic and Dindos-Pipher implies extrapolation to a holomorphic semigroup on…

A linear different operator L is called weakly hypoelliptic if any local solution u of Lu=0 is smooth. We allow for systems, that is, the coefficients may be matrices, not necessarily of square size. This is a huge class of important…

We show that every Hankel operator $H$ is unitarily equivalent to a pseudo-differential operator $A$ of a special structure acting in the space $L^2 ({\Bbb R}) $. As an example, we consider integral operators $H$ in the space $L^2 ({\Bbb…

In this paper, we consider higher order paired symmetric tensors and strongly paired symmetric tensors. Elasticity tensors and higher order elasticity tensors in solid mechanics are strongly paired symmetric tensors. A (strongly) paired…

This thesis pertains to the study of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations on "thin" structures. The first main objective is to establish the strong and weak low-dimensional counterparts of the parabolic Neumann problem. The…

We have studied the ellipticity of quantum mechanical Hamiltonians, in particular of the helium atom, in order to prove existence of a parametrix and corresponding Green operator. The parametrix is considered in local neighbourhoods of…

In this paper we consider an elliptic operator with constant coefficients and we estimate the maximal function of the tangential gradient of the kernel of the double layer potential with respect to its first variable. As a consequence, we…

We prove H\"older regularity results for a class of nonlinear elliptic integro-differential operators with integration kernels whose ellipticity bounds are strongly directionally dependent. These results extend those in [9] and are also…

Let $\Delta$ be the Laplace--Beltrami operator acting on a non-doubling manifold with two ends $\mathbb R^m \sharp \mathcal R^n$ with $m > n \ge 3$. Let $\frak{h}_t(x,y)$ be the kernels of the semigroup $e^{-t\Delta}$ generated by $\Delta$.…

We prove that the vector-valued generator of a bounded holomorphic semigroup represented by a kernel satisfying Gaussian estimates with bounded $H^\infty$-calculus in $L^2(\mathbb R^d;\mathbb C^m)$ admits bounded $H^\infty$-calculus for…

This is the second part of a series of four articles on weighted norm inequalities, off-diagonal estimates and elliptic operators. We consider a substitute to the notion of pointwise bounds for kernels of operators which usually is a…

We demonstrate a method of associating the principal symbol at a $K$-point with a linear differential operator acting between modules over a commutative algebra, and we use it to define the ellipticity of a linear differential operator in a…

In this paper we introduce some fully nonlinear second order operators defined as weighted partial sums of the eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix, arising in geometrical contexts, with the aim to extend maximum principles and removable…

In this work a linearly constrained minimization of a positive semidefinite quadratic functional is examined. Our results are concerning infinite dimensional real Hilbert spaces, with a singular positive operator related to the functional,…

We prove some Hardy type inequalities related to quasilinear second order degenerate elliptic differential operators L_p(u):=-\nabla_L^*(\abs{\nabla_L u}^{p-2}\nabla_L u). If \phi is a positive weight such that -L_p\phi>= 0, then the Hardy…

Let $S=\{S_t\}_{t\geq0}$ be the semigroup generated on $L_2(\Ri^d)$ by a self-adjoint, second-order, divergence-form, elliptic operator $H$ with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. Further let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $\Ri^d$ with…

We consider the homogenization of a semilinear elliptic equation where the coefficients of the second-order differential operator may be discontinuous. We establish the existence and uniqueness of the fine-scale solution, followed by an a…

In this paper we investigate the critical exponents of two families of Pucci's extremal operators. The notion of critical exponent that we have chosen for these fully nonlinear operators whihc are not variational is that of threshold…

Let $\Omega$ be a strongly Lipschitz domain of $\reel^n$. Consider an elliptic second order divergence operator $L$ (including a boundary condition on $\partial\Omega$) and define a Hardy space by imposing the non-tangential maximal…

Let $S$ be the submarkovian semigroup on $L_2({\bf R}^d)$ generated by a self-adjoint, second-order, divergence-form, elliptic operator $H$ with $W^{1,\infty}$ coefficients $c_{kl}$. Further let $\Omega$ be an open subset of ${\bf R}^d$.…