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Publications and source records attributed to Haïm Brezis.
In the cases where there is no Sobolev-type or Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type fractional estimate involving $\lvert u\rvert_{W^{s,p}}$, we establish alternative estimates where the strong $L^p$ norms are replaced by Lorentz norms.
Let $Ω$ be a smooth bounded domain in ${\mathbb R}^n$, $0\textless{}s\textless{}\infty$ and $1\le p\textless{}\infty$. We prove that $C^\infty(\overlineΩ\, ; {\mathbb S}^1)$ is dense in $W^{s,p}(Ω; {\mathbb S}^1)$ except when $1\le sp\textless{}2$ and $n\ge 2$. The main ingredient is a new approximation method for $W^{s,p}$-maps when $s\textless{}1$. With $0\textless{}s\textless{}1$, $1\le p\textless{}\infty$ and $sp\textless{}n$, $Ω$ a ball, and $N$ a general compact connected manifold, we prove that $C^\infty(\overlineΩ\, ; N)$ is dense in $W^{s,p}(Ω\, ; N)$ if and only if $π\_{[sp]}(N)=0$. This supplements analogous results obtained by Bethuel when $s=1$, and by Bousquet, Ponce and Van Schaftingen when $s=2,3,\ldots$ [General domains $Ω$ have been treated by Hang and Lin when $s=1$; our approach allows to extend their result to $s\textless{}1$.] The case where $s\textgreater{}1$, $s\not\in{\mathbb N}$, is still open.
We study the existence of solutions of the nonlinear problem $$ \left\{ \begin{alignedat}{2} -Δu + g(u) & = μ& & \quad \text{in } Ω,\\ u & = 0 & & \quad \text{on } \partial Ω, \end{alignedat} \right. $$ where $μ$ is a Radon measure and $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a nondecreasing continuous function with $g(0) = 0$. This equation need not have a solution for every measure $μ$, and we say that $μ$ is a good measure if the Dirichlet problem above admits a solution. We show that for every $μ$ there exists a largest good measure $μ^* \leq μ$. This reduced measure has a number of remarkable properties.
We extend the classical Kato's inequality in order to allow functions $u \in L^1_\mathrm{loc}$ such that $Δu$ is a Radon measure. This inequality has been applied by Brezis, Marcus, and Ponce to study the existence of solutions of the nonlinear equation $- Δu + g(u) = μ$, where $μ$ is a measure and $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is an increasing continuous function.