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Andrea Cianchi

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arXiv2026

Maximal Sobolev regularity of the stress tensor for the symmetric gradient p-Laplace system

The symmetric $p$-Laplace operator enters various models in mathematical physics, such as incompressible materials with power-type hardening and non-Newtonian fluids. In this work, second-order differentiability properties of solutions to the symmetric $p$-Laplace system are established. They are formulated as maximal Sobolev regularity of the nonlinear stress tensor for locally square integrable right-hand sides.

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arXiv2026

Fractional higher differentiability of solutions to strongly nonlinear Stokes systems

This work concerns stationary Stokes type systems governed by a general class of non-necessarily power-type nonlinearities. Fractional regularity properties of the symmetric gradient of local solutions are established, depending on a balance between the nonlinearity of the differential operator and the degree of integrability of the datum on right-hand side. The non-polynomial character of the differential operators calls for the use of Orlicz and Orlicz-Sobolev spaces as an appropriate functional framework for both the solutions and the datum. The regularity result amounts to the membership of a nonlinear expression of the symmetric gradient in Besov spaces. Fractional regularity of the pressure term is also exhibited and is formulated in terms of Orlicz-Besov spaces. Fractional Sobolev regularity of the symmetric gradient and of the pressure follow as a consequence.} Parallel results for the symmetric gradient of local solutions to the associated plain elliptic system are also offered. A new version of a Poincaré-Sobolev inequality in Orlicz spaces, in modular form, on domains with finite measure plays a role in the proofs.

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arXiv2025

Sobolev inequalities for canceling operators

Sobolev type inequalities involving homogeneous elliptic canceling differential operators and rearrangement-invariant norms on the Euclidean space are considered. They are characterized via considerably simpler one-dimensional Hardy type inequalities. As a consequence, they are shown to hold exactly for the same norms as their counterparts depending on the standard gradient operator of the same order. The results offered provide a unified framework for the theory of Sobolev embeddings for the elliptic canceling operators. They build upon and incorporate earlier fundamental contributions dealing with the endpoint case of $L^1$-norms. They also include previously available results for the symmetric gradient, a prominent instance of an elliptic canceling operator. In particular, the optimal rearrangement-invariant target norm associated with any given domain norm in a Sobolev inequality for any elliptic canceling operator is exhibited. Its explicit form is detected for specific families of rearrangement-invariant spaces, such as the Orlicz spaces and the Lorentz-Zygmund spaces. Especially relevant instances of inequalities for domain spaces neighboring $L^1$ are singled out.

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arXiv2025

Global Lipschitz regularity in anisotropic elliptic problems with natural gradient growth

We deal with homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann boundary-value problems for anisotropic elliptic operators of p-Laplace type. They emerge as Euler-Lagrange equations of integral functionals of the Calculus of Variations built upon possibly anisotropic norms of the gradient of trial functions. We establish global Lipschitz regularity of solutions under the weakest possible assumption on right-hand side of the equation, which may also include the gradient term with natural growth exponent. The results hold in either convex domains, or domains enjoying minimal integrability assumptions on the curvature of its boundary.

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arXiv2025

Fractional Orlicz-Sobolev embeddings into Campanato type spaces

Optimal embeddings for fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces into (generalized) Campanato spaces on the Euclidean space are exhibited. Embeddings into vanishing Campanato spaces are also characterized. Sharp embeddings into $\operatorname{BMO}(\mathbb R^n)$ and $\operatorname{VMO}(\mathbb R^n)$ are derived as special instances. Dissimilarities to corresponding embeddings for classical fractional Sobolev spaces are pointed out.

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arXiv2025

Composition operators in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

The continuity of the Nemytskii operator between Orlicz-Sobolev spaces is investigated. Natural Orlicz-Sobolev versions of classical results for standard Sobolev are established. The results presented not only extend the latter, but also improve them in borderline situations. Anisotropic Orlicz-Sobolev spaces are included in our analysis. The results offered for this class of spaces are new even for customary anisotropic Sobolev spaces.

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arXiv2024

Anisotropic symmetrization, convex bodies, and isoperimetric inequalities

This work is concerned with a Pólya-Szegö type inequality for anisotropic functionals of Sobolev functions. The relevant inequality entails a double-symmetrization involving both trial functions and functionals. A new approach that uncovers geometric aspects of the inequality is proposed. It relies upon anisotropic isoperimetric inequalities, fine properties of Sobolev functions, and results from the Brunn-Minkowski theory of convex bodies. Importantly, unlike previously available proofs, the one offered in this paper does not require approximation arguments and hence allows for a characterization of extremal functions.

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arXiv2024

Strongly nonlinear Robin problems for harmonic and polyharmonic functions in the half-space

Existence and global regularity results for boundary-value problems of Robin type for harmonic and polyharmonic functions in $n$-dimensional half-spaces are offered. The Robin condition on the normal derivative on the boundary of the half-space is prescribed by a nonlinear function $\mathcal N$ of the relevant harmonic or polyharmonic functions. General Orlicz type growths for the function $\mathcal N$ are considered. For instance, functions $\mathcal N$ of classical power type, their perturbations by logarithmic factors, and exponential functions are allowed. New sharp boundedness properties in Orlicz spaces of some classical operators from harmonic analysis, of independent interest, are critical for our approach.

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arXiv2024

Higher-order Sobolev embeddings into spaces of Campanato and Morrey type

Necessary and sufficient conditions are offered for Sobolev type spaces built on rearrangement-invariant spaces to be continuously embedded into (generalized) Campanato and Morrey spaces on open subsets of the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. As a consequence, the optimal target and domain spaces in the relevant embeddings are identified. Our general criteria are implemented to derive sharp embeddings in the class of Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.

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arXiv2024

On the modulus of continuity of fractional Orlicz-Sobolev functions

Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for a fractional Orlicz-Sobolev space on $\rn$ to be continuously embedded into a space of uniformly continuous functions. The optimal modulus of continuity is exhibited whenever these conditions are fulfilled. These results pertain to the supercritical Sobolev regime and complement earlier sharp embeddings into rearrangement-invariant spaces concerning the subcritical setting. Classical embeddings for fractional Sobolev spaces into Hölder spaces are recovered as special instances. Proofs require novel strategies, since customary methods fail to produce optimal conclusions.

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arXiv2023

Sobolev embeddings in Musielak-Orlicz space

An embedding theorem for Sobolev spaces built upon general Musielak-Orlicz norms is offered. These norms are defined in terms of generalized Young functions which also depend on the $x$ variable. Under minimal conditions on the latter dependence, a Sobolev conjugate is associated with any function of this type. Such a conjugate is sharp, in the sense that, for each fixed $x$, it agrees with the sharp Sobolev conjugate in classical Orlicz spaces. Both Sobolev inequalities in the whole $\mathbb{R}^n$ and Sobolev-Poincaré inequalities in domains are established. Compact Sobolev embeddings are also presented. In particular, optimal embeddings for standard Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, variable exponent Sobolev spaces, and double-phase Sobolev spaces are recovered and complemented in borderline cases. A key tool, of independent interest, in our approach is a new weak type inequality for Riesz potentials in Musielak-Orlicz spaces involving a sharp fractional-order Sobolev conjugate.

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arXiv2023

Local boundedness of minimizers under unbalanced Orlicz growth conditions

Local minimizers of integral functionals of the calculus of variations are analyzed under growth conditions dictated by different lower and upper bounds for the integrand. Growths of non-necessarily power type are allowed. The local boundedness of the relevant minimizers is established under a suitable balance between the lower and the upper bounds. Classical minimizers, as well as quasi-minimizers are included in our discussion. Functionals subject to so-called $p,q$-growth conditions are embraced as special cases and the corresponding sharp results available in the literature are recovered.

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arXiv2023

Global second-order estimates in anisotropic elliptic problems

We deal with boundary value problems for second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form, which emerge as Euler-Lagrange equations of integral functionals of the Calculus of Variations built upon possibly anisotropic norms of the gradient of trial functions. Integrands with non polynomial growth are included in our discussion. The $W^{1,2}$-regularity of the stress-field associated with solutions, namely the nonlinear expression of the gradient subject to the divergence operator, is established under the weakest possible assumption that the datum on the right-hand side of the equation is a merely $L^2$-function. Global regularity estimates are offered in domains enjoying minimal assumptions on the boundary. They depend on the weak curvatures of the boundary via either their degree of integrability or an isocapacitary inequality. By contrast, none of these assumptions is needed in the case of convex domains. An explicit estimate for the constants appearing in the relevant estimates is exhibited in terms of the Lipschitz characteristic of the domains, when their boundary is endowed with Hölder continuous curvatures.

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arXiv2023

Distortion of Hausdorff measures under Orlicz--Sobolev maps

A comprehensive theory of the effect of Orlicz-Sobolev maps, between Euclidean spaces, on subsets with zero or finite Hausdorff measure is offered. Arbitrary Orlicz-Sobolev spaces embedded into the space of continuous function and Hausdorff measures built upon general gauge functions are included in our discussion. An explicit formula for the distortion of the relevant gauge function under the action of these maps is exhibited in terms of the Young function defining the Orlicz-Sobolev space. New phenomena and features, related to the flexibility in the definition of the degree of integrability of weak derivatives of maps and in the notion of measure of sets, are detected. Classical results, dealing with standard Sobolev spaces and Hausdorff measures, are recovered, and their optimality is shown to hold in a refined stronger sense. Special instances available in the literature, concerning Young functions and gauge functions of non-power type, are also reproduced and, when not sharp, improved.

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arXiv2023

Inclusion relations among fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces and a Littlewood-Paley characterization

Embeddings among fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces with different smoothness are characterized. The equivalence of their Gagliardo-Slobodeckij norms to norms defined via Littlewood-Paley decompostions, via oscillations, or via Besov type difference quotients is also established. These equivalences, of independent interest, are a key tool in the proof of the relevant embeddings. They also rest upon a new optimal inequality for convolutions in Orlicz spaces.

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arXiv2023

Optimal Sobolev embeddings for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator

A comprehensive analysis of Sobolev-type inequalities for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator in the Gauss space is offered. A unified approach is proposed, providing one with criteria for their validity in the class of rearrangement-invariant function norms. Optimal target and domain norms in the relevant inequalities are characterized via a reduction principle to one-dimensional inequalities for a Calderón type integral operator patterned on the Gaussian isoperimetric function. Consequently, the best possible norms in a variety of specific families of spaces, including Lebesgue, Lorentz, Lorentz-Zygmund, Orlicz and Marcinkiewicz spaces, are detected. The reduction principle hinges on a preliminary discussion of the existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions to equations, in the Gauss space, for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator, with a just integrable right-hand side. A decisive role is also played by a pointwise estimate, in rearrangement form, for these solutions.

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arXiv2022

Wulff shape symmetry of solutions to overdetermined problems for Finsler Monge-Ampère equations

We deal with Monge-Ampère type equations modeled upon general anisotropic norms $H$ in $\mathbb R^n$. An overdetermined problem for convex solutions to these equations is analyzed. The relevant solutions are subject to both a homogeneous Dirichlet condition and a second boundary condition, designed on $H$, on the gradient image of the domain. The Wulff shape symmetry associated with $H$ of the solutions is established.

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arXiv2022

Boundedness of functions in fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

A necessary and sufficient condition for fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces to be continuously embedded into $L^\infty(\mathbb R^n)$ is exhibited. Under the same assumption, any function from the relevant fractional-order spaces is shown to be continuous. Improvements of this result are also offered. They provide the optimal Orlicz target space, and the optimal rearrangement-invariant target space in the embedding in question. These results complement those already available in the subcritical case, where the embedding into $L^\infty(\mathbb R^n)$ fails. They also augment a classical embedding theorem for standard fractional Sobolev spaces.

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