In the following note, we focus on the problem of existence of continuous solutions vanishing at infinity to the equation div v = f for f ∈ Ln(ℝn) and satisfying an estimate of the type ||v||∞ ⩽ C||f||n for any f ∈ Ln(ℝn), where C > 0 is related to the constant appearing in the Sobolev–Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality for functions with bounded variation (BV functions).

We consider abstract Sobolev spaces of Bessel-type associated with an operator. In this work, we pursue the study of algebra properties of such functional spaces through the corresponding semigroup. As a follow-up to our previous work, we show that by making use of the property of a ‘carré du champ’ identity, this algebra property holds in a wider range than previously shown.

By invoking some new ideas, we characterize Sobolev spaces Wα,p(ℝn) with the smoothness order α ∊ (0, 2] and p ∊ (max{1, 2n/(2α + n)},∞), via the Lusin area function and the Littlewood–Paley g*λ-function in terms of centred ball averages. We also show that the assumption p ∊ (max{1, 2n/(2α + n)},∞) is nearly sharp in the sense that these characterizations are no longer true when p ∊ (1, max{1, 2n/(2α + n)}). These characterizations provide a possible new way to introduce Sobolev spaces with smoothness order in (1, 2] on metric measure spaces.

We establish the mapping properties of Fourier-type transforms on rearrangement-invariant quasi-Banach function spaces. In particular, we have the mapping properties of the Laplace transform, the Hankel transforms, the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform and some oscillatory integral operators. We achieve these mapping properties by using an interpolation functor that can explicitly generate a given rearrangement-invariant quasi-Banach function space via Lebesgue spaces.

We study several questions about the weak-type boundedness of the Fourier transform ℱ on rearrangement invariant spaces. In particular, we characterize the action of ℱ as a bounded operator from the minimal Lorentz space Λ(X) into the Marcinkiewicz maximal space M(X), both associated with a rearrangement invariant space X. Finally, we also prove some results establishing that the weak-type boundedness of ℱ, in certain weighted Lorentz spaces, is equivalent to the corresponding strong-type estimates.

We study a weighted maximal weak-type inequality for Haar multipliers that can be regarded as a dual problem of Muckenhoupt and Wheeden. More precisely, if Tε is the Haar multiplier associated with the sequence ε with values in [−1, 1], and is the r-maximal operator, then for any weight w and any function f on [0, 1) we have

for some constant Cr depending only on r. We also show that the analogous result does not hold if we replace by the dyadic maximal operator Md. The proof rests on the Bellman function method; using this technique we establish related weighted Lp estimates for p close to 1, and then deduce the main result by extrapolation arguments.

For bounded domains Ω, we prove that the Lp-norm of a regular function with compact support is controlled by weighted Lp-norms of its gradient, where the weight belongs to a class of symmetric non-negative definite matrix-valued functions. The class of weights is defined by regularity assumptions and structural conditions on the degeneracy set, where the determinant vanishes. In particular, the weight A is assumed to have rank at least 1 when restricted to the normal bundle of the degeneracy set S. This generalization of the classical Poincaré inequality is then applied to develop a robust theory of first-order Lp-based Sobolev spaces with matrix-valued weight A. The Poincaré inequality and these Sobolev spaces are then applied to produce various results on existence, uniqueness and qualitative properties of weak solutions to boundary-value problems for degenerate elliptic, degenerate parabolic and degenerate hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) of second order written in divergence form, where A is calibrated to the matrix of coefficients of the second-order spatial derivatives. The notion of weak solution is variational: the spatial states belong to the matrix-weighted Sobolev spaces with p = 2. For the degenerate elliptic PDEs, the Dirichlet problem is treated by the use of the Poincaré inequality and Lax–Milgram theorem, while the treatment of the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem for the degenerate evolution equations relies only on the Poincaré inequality and the parabolic and hyperbolic counterparts of the Lax–Milgram theorem.

Classically, Nevanlinna showed that functions from the complex upper half plane into itself which satisfy nice asymptotic conditions are parametrized by finite measures on the real line. Furthermore, the higher order asymptotic behaviour at infinity of a map from the complex upper half plane into itself is governed by the existence of moments of its representing measure, which was the key to his solution of the Hamburger moment problem. Agler and McCarthy showed that an analogue of the above correspondence holds between a Pick function f of two variables, an analytic function which maps the product of two upper half planes into the upper half plane, and moment-like quantities arising from an operator theoretic representation for f. We apply their ‘moment’ theory to show that there is a fine hierarchy of levels of regularity at infinity for Pick functions in two variables, given by the Löwner classes and intermediate Löwner classes of order N, which can be exhibited in terms of certain formulae akin to the Julia quotient.

Let $A$ be an expansive dilation on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}:\mathbb{R}^{n}\times [0,\infty )\rightarrow [0,\infty )$ an anisotropic growth function. In this article, the authors introduce the anisotropic weak Musielak–Orlicz Hardy space $\mathit{WH}_{A}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ via the nontangential grand maximal function and then obtain its Littlewood–Paley characterizations in terms of the anisotropic Lusin-area function, $g$-function or $g_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}^{\ast }$-function, respectively. All these characterizations for anisotropic weak Hardy spaces $\mathit{WH}_{A}^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ (namely, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(x,t):=t^{p}$ for all $t\in [0,\infty )$ and $x\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $p\in (0,1]$) are new. Moreover, the range of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$ in the anisotropic $g_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}^{\ast }$-function characterization of $\mathit{WH}_{A}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ coincides with the best known range of the $g_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}^{\ast }$-function characterization of classical Hardy space $H^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ or its weighted variants, where $p\in (0,1]$.

We establish an extension of the Banach–Stone theorem to a class of isomorphisms more general than isometries in a noncompact framework. Some applications are given. In particular, we give a canonical representation of some (not necessarily linear) operators between products of function spaces. Our results are established for an abstract class of function spaces included in the space of all continuous and bounded functions defined on a complete metric space.

In this paper, we study the bounded approximation property for the weighted space $\mathcal{HV}$(U) of holomorphic mappings defined on a balanced open subset U of a Banach space E and its predual $\mathcal{GV}$(U), where $\mathcal{V}$ is a countable family of weights. After obtaining an $\mathcal{S}$-absolute decomposition for the space $\mathcal{GV}$(U), we show that E has the bounded approximation property if and only if $\mathcal{GV}$(U) has. In case $\mathcal{V}$ consists of a single weight v, an analogous characterization for the metric approximation property for a Banach space E has been obtained in terms of the metric approximation property for the space $\mathcal{G}_v$(U).

We investigate the following nonlinear Neumann boundary-value problem with associated p(x)-Laplace-type operator

where the function φ(x, v) is of type |v|p(x)−2v with continuous function p: → (1,∞) and both f : Ω × ℝ → ℝ and g : ∂Ω × ℝ → ℝ satisfy a Carathéodory condition. We first show the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for the Neumann problems using the Fountain theorem with the Cerami condition but without the Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz condition. Next, we give a result on the existence of a sequence of weak solutions for problem (P) converging to 0 in L ∞ -norm by employing De Giorgi's iteration and the localization method under suitable conditions.

We introduce and study Hankel operators defined on the Hardy space of regular functions of a quaternionic variable. Theorems analogous to those of Nehari and Fefferman are proved.

We consider the algebra of holomorphic functions on L ∞ that are symmetric, i.e. that are invariant under composition of the variable with any measure-preserving bijection of [0, 1]. Its spectrum is identified with the collection of scalar sequences such that is bounded and turns to be separable. All this follows from our main result that the subalgebra of symmetric polynomials on L ∞ has a natural algebraic basis.

We define the notion of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}$ -Carleson measures, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}$ is either a concave growth function or a convex growth function, and provide an equivalent definition. We then characterize $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}$ -Carleson measures for Bergman–Orlicz spaces and use them to characterize multipliers between Bergman–Orlicz spaces.

An iteration technique for characterizing boundedness of certain types of multilinear operators is presented, reducing the problem to a corresponding linear-operator case. The method gives a simple proof of a characterization of validity of the weighted bilinear Hardy inequality

for all non-negative f, g on (a, b), for 1 < p 1, p 2, q < ∞. More equivalent characterizing conditions are presented.

The same technique is applied to various further problems, in particular those involving multilinear integral operators of Hardy type.

It is well known that the standard Lipschitz space in Euclidean space, with exponent α ∈ (0, 1), can be characterized by means of the inequality , where is the Poisson integral of the function f. There are two cases: one can either assume that the functions in the space are bounded, or one can not make such an assumption. In the setting of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup in ℝn , Gatto and Urbina defined a Lipschitz space by means of a similar inequality for the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Poisson integral, considering bounded functions. In a preceding paper, the authors characterized that space by means of a Lipschitz-type continuity condition. The present paper defines a Lipschitz space in the same setting in a similar way, but now without the boundedness condition. Our main result says that this space can also be described by a continuity condition. The functions in this space turn out to have at most logarithmic growth at infinity.

The discrepancy function measures the deviation of the empirical distribution of a point set in $[0,1]^{d}$ from the uniform distribution. In this paper, we study the classical discrepancy function with respect to the bounded mean oscillation and exponential Orlicz norms, as well as Sobolev, Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin norms with dominating mixed smoothness. We give sharp bounds for the discrepancy function under such norms with respect to infinite sequences.

The paper is devoted to the study of Fefferman–Stein inequalities for stochastic integrals. If $X$ is a martingale, $Y$ is the stochastic integral, with respect to $X$ , of some predictable process taking values in $[-1,1]$ , then for any weight $W$ belonging to the class $A_{1}$ we have the estimates $\Vert Y_{\infty }\Vert _{L^{p}(W)}\leqslant 8pp^{\prime }[W]_{A_{1}}\Vert X_{\infty }\Vert _{L^{p}(W)},$ $1<p<\infty ,$ and $\Vert Y_{\infty }\Vert _{L^{1,\infty }(W)}\leqslant c[W]_{A_{1}}(1+\log [W]_{A_{1}})\Vert X_{\infty }\Vert _{L^{1}(W)}.$ The proofs rest on the Bellman function method: the inequalities are deduced from the existence of certain special functions, enjoying appropriate majorization and concavity. As an application, related statements for Haar multipliers are indicated. The above estimates can be regarded as probabilistic counterparts of the recent results of Lerner, Ombrosi and Pérez concerning singular integral operators.

We study the regularity properties of several classes of discrete maximal operators acting on $\text{BV}(\mathbb{Z})$ functions or $\ell ^{1}(\mathbb{Z})$ functions. We establish sharp bounds and continuity for the derivative of these discrete maximal functions, in both the centred and uncentred versions. As an immediate consequence, we obtain sharp bounds and continuity for the discrete fractional maximal operators from $\ell ^{1}(\mathbb{Z})$ to $\text{BV}(\mathbb{Z})$ .