The main result of this paper is the following: any weighted Riemannian manifold $(M,g,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$, i.e., a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ endowed with a generic non-negative Radon measure $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$, is infinitesimally Hilbertian, which means that its associated Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(M,g,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ is a Hilbert space.

We actually prove a stronger result: the abstract tangent module (à la Gigli) associated with any weighted reversible Finsler manifold $(M,F,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ can be isometrically embedded into the space of all measurable sections of the tangent bundle of $M$ that are $2$-integrable with respect to $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$.

By following the same approach, we also prove that all weighted (sub-Riemannian) Carnot groups are infinitesimally Hilbertian.

Let $\ell \in \mathbb{N}$ and $p\in (1,\infty ]$. In this article, the authors establish several equivalent characterizations of Sobolev spaces $W^{2\ell +2,p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ in terms of derivatives of ball averages. The novelty in the results of this article is that these equivalent characterizations reveal some new connections between the smoothness indices of Sobolev spaces and the derivatives on the radius of ball averages and also that, to obtain the corresponding results for higher order Sobolev spaces, the authors first establish the combinatorial equality: for any $\ell \in \mathbb{N}$ and $k\in \{0,\ldots ,\ell -1\}$, $\sum _{j=0}^{2\ell }(-1)^{j}\binom{2\ell }{j}|\ell -j|^{2k}=0$.

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.

The eigenvalue problem $-{{\Delta }_{p}}u-{{\Delta }_{q}}u=\lambda {{\left| u \right|}^{q-2}}u$ with $p\,\in \,\left( 1,\,\infty \right),\,q\,\in \,\left( 2,\,\infty \right),\,p\ne \,q$ subject to the corresponding homogeneous Neumann boundary condition is investigated on a bounded open set with smooth boundary from ${{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}$ with $N\,\ge \,2$. A careful analysis of this problem leads us to a complete description of the set of eigenvalues as being a precise interval $\left( {{\lambda }_{1,}}+\infty \right)$ plus an isolated point $\lambda \,=\,0$. This comprehensive result is strongly related to our framework, which is complementary to the well-known case $p\,=\,q\,\ne \,2$ for which a full description of the set of eigenvalues is still unavailable.

In this paper, the authors characterize second-order Sobolev spaces ${{W}^{2,p}}({{\mathbb{R}}^{n}})$ , with $p\,\in \,[2,\,\infty )$ and $n\,\in \,\mathbb{N}\,\text{or}\,p\,\in \,(1,\,2)\,\text{and}\,n\,\in \,\left\{ 1,\,2,\,3 \right\}$ , via the Lusin area function and the Littlewood–Paley $g_{\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }}^{*}$ -function in terms of ball means.

In this paper necessary and sufficient conditions of L∞-controllability andapproximate L∞-controllability are obtained for the control systemwtt = wxx − q2w,w(0,t) = u(t),x > 0, t ∈ (0,T), whereq ≥ 0, T > 0,u ∈ L∞(0,T) is a control. This system isconsidered in the Sobolev spaces.

We prove estimates for the partial derivatives of the solution to a time-fractional diffusion equation posed over a bounded spatial domain. Such estimates are needed for the analysis of effective numerical methods, particularly since the solution is typically less regular than in the familiar case of classical diffusion.

We give upper bounds on the Walsh coefficients of functions for which the derivative of order at least one has bounded variation of fractional order. Further, we also consider the Walsh coefficients of functions in periodic and nonperiodic reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. A lower bound which shows that our results are best possible is also shown.

In this paper we derive local error estimates for radial basis function interpolation on the unit sphere . More precisely, we consider radial basis function interpolation based on data on a (global or local) point set for functions in the Sobolev space with norm , where s>1. The zonal positive definite continuous kernel ϕ, which defines the radial basis function, is chosen such that its native space can be identified with . Under these assumptions we derive a local estimate for the uniform error on a spherical cap S(z;r): the radial basis function interpolant ΛXf of satisfies , where h=hX,S(z;r) is the local mesh norm of the point set X with respect to the spherical cap S(z;r). Our proof is intrinsic to the sphere, and makes use of the Videnskii inequality. A numerical test illustrates the theoretical result.

${{H}^{p}}$ estimate for the multilinear operators which are finite sums of pointwise products of singular integrals and fractional integrals is given. An application to Sobolev space and some examples are also given.

Positive, copositive, onesided and intertwining (co-onesided) polynomial and spline approximations of functions are considered. Both uniform and pointwise estimates, which are exact in some sense, are obtained.

Let X be either the d-dimensional sphere or a compact, simply connected, simple, connected Lie group. We define a mean-value operator analogous to the spherical mean-value operator acting on integrable functions on Euclidean space. The value of this operator will be written as ℳ f (x, a), where x ∈ X and a varies over a torus A in the group of isometries of X. For each of these cases there is an interval pO < p ≦ 2, where the p0 depends on the geometry of X, such that if f is in Lp (X) then there is a set full measure in X and if x lies in this set, the function a ↦ℳ f(x, a) has some Hölder continuity on compact subsets of the regular elements of A.