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G. Barbatis

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arXiv2014

Homogenization of random elliptic systems with an application to Maxwell's equations

We study the homogenization of elliptic systems of equations in divergence form where the coefficients are compositions of periodic functions with a random diffeomorphism with stationary gradient. This is done in the spirit of scalar stochastic homogenization by Blanc, Le Bris and P.-L. Lions. An application of the abstract result is given for Maxwell's equations in random dissipative bianisotropic media.

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arXiv2011

Stability estimates for resolvents, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of elliptic operators on variable domains

We consider general second order uniformly elliptic operators subject to homogeneous boundary conditions on open sets $ϕ(Ω)$ parametrized by Lipschitz homeomorphisms $ϕ$ defined on a fixed reference domain $Ω$. Given two open sets $ϕ(Ω)$, $\tilde ϕ(Ω)$ we estimate the variation of resolvents, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions via the Sobolev norm $\|\tilde ϕ-ϕ\|_{W^{1,p}(Ω)}$ for finite values of $p$, under natural summability conditions on eigenfunctions and their gradients. We prove that such conditions are satisfied for a wide class of operators and open sets, including open sets with Lipschitz continuous boundaries. We apply these estimates to control the variation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions via the measure of the symmetric difference of the open sets. We also discuss an application to the stability of solutions to the Poisson problem.

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arXiv2009

Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture for pseudodifferential perturbation

We consider a periodic pseudodifferential operator $H=(-Δ)^l+A$ ($l>0$) in $\R^d$ which satisfies the following conditions: (i) the symbol of $H$ is smooth in $x$, and (ii) the perturbation $A$ has order smaller than $2l-1$. Under these assumptions, we prove that the spectrum of $H$ contains a half-line.

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arXiv2006

Trace estimates and invariance of the essential spectrum

We provide sufficient conditions under which the difference of the resolvents of two higher-order operators acting in $\R^N$ belongs to trace classes $\cC^p$. We provide explicit estimates on the norm of the resolvent difference in terms of $L^p$ norms of the difference of the coefficients. Such inequalities are useful in estimating the effect of localized perturbations of the coefficients.

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arXiv2005

Improved Rellich inequalities for the polyharmonic operator

We prove two improved versions of the Hardy-Rellich inequality for the polyharmonic operator $(-Δ)^m$ involving the distance to the boundary. The first involves an infinite series improvement using logarithmic functions, while the second contains $L^2$ norms and involves as a coefficient the volume of the domain. We find explicit constants for these inequalities, and we prove their optimality in the first case.

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arXiv2004

On a class of Rellich inequalities

We prove Rellich and improved Rellich inequalities that involve the distance function from a hypersurface of codimension $k$, under a certain geometric assumption. In case the distance is taken from the boundary, that assumption is the convexity of the domain. We also discuss the best constant of these inequalities.

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arXiv2003

A unified approach to improved L^p Hardy inequalities with best constants

We present a unified approach to improved $L^p$ Hardy inequalities in $\R^N$. We consider Hardy potentials that involve either the distance from a point, or the distance from the boundary, or even the intermediate case where distance is taken from a surface of codimension $1<k<N$. In our main result we add to the right hand side of the classical Hardy inequality, a weighted $L^p$ norm with optimal weight and best constant. We also prove non-homogeneous improved Hardy inequalities, where the right hand side involves weighted L^q norms, q \neq p.

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arXiv2003

Series expansion for L^p Hardy inequalities

We consider a general class of sharp $L^p$ Hardy inequalities in $\R^N$ involving distance from a surface of general codimension $1\leq k\leq N$. We show that we can succesively improve them by adding to the right hand side a lower order term with optimal weight and best constant. This leads to an infinite series improvement of $L^p$ Hardy inequalities.

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arXiv2003

Refined geometric L^p Hardy inequalities

For a bounded convex domain Ωin R^N we prove refined Hardy inequalities that involve the Hardy potential corresponding to the distance to the boundary of Ω, the volume of $Ω$, as well as a finite number of sharp logarithmic corrections. We also discuss the best constant of these inequalities.

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arXiv2003

Critical heat kernel estimates via Hardy-Sobolev inequalities

We obtain Sobolev inequalities for the Schrodinger operator -Δ-V, where V has critical behaviour V(x)=((N-2)/2)^2|x|^{-2} near the origin. We apply these inequalities to obtain pointwise estimates on the associated heat kernel, improving upon earlier results.

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