Let S be a Sobolev or Orlicz-Sobolev space of functions not necessarily vanishing at the boundary of the domain. We give sufficient conditions on a nonnegative function in S in order that its spherical rearrangement ("Schwartz symmetrization") still belongs to S. These results are obtained via relative isoperimetric inequalities and somewhat generalize a well-known Polya-Szego's theorem. We also prove that the rearrangement of any function in S is locally in S.
In this article, we prove a sharp estimate for the solutions to parabolic equations on manifolds. Precisely, using symmetrization techniques and isoperimetric inequalities on Riemannian manifold, we obtain a Bandle's comparison on complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and compact manifolds with positive Ricci curvature respectively. Our results generalize Bandle's result [6] to Riemannian setting, and Talenti's comparison for elliptic equation on manifolds by Colladay-Langford-McDonald [12] and Chen-Li [9] to parabolic equations.
By using optimal mass transport theory we prove a sharp isoperimetric inequality in ${\sf CD} (0,N)$ metric measure spaces assuming an asymptotic volume growth at infinity. Our result extends recently proven isoperimetric inequalities for normed spaces and Riemannian manifolds to a nonsmooth framework. In the case of $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, we outline an alternative proof of the rigidity result of S. Brendle (2021). As applications of the isoperimetric inequality, we establish Sobolev and Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn inequalities with explicit sharp const…
The paper has two main goals. The first is to take a new approach to rearrangements on certain classes of measurable real-valued functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$. Rearrangements are maps that are monotonic (up to sets of measure zero) and equimeasurable, i.e., they preserve the measure of super-level sets of functions. All the principal known symmetrization processes for functions, such as Steiner and Schwarz symmetrization, are rearrangements, and these have a multitude of applications in diverse areas of the mathematical sciences. The second goal is to understand which properties of rearrangement…
This paper is concerned with the periodic principal eigenvalue $k_λ(μ)$ associated with the operator $- {d^2\over dx^2} - 2λ{d\over dx} - μ(x) - λ^2$ , (1) where $λ\in \mathbb{R}$ and $μ$ is continuous and periodic in $x\in\mathbb{R}$. Our main result is that $k_λ(μ^*) \le k_λ(μ)$, where $μ^*$ is the Schwarz rearrangement of the function $μ$. From a population dynamics point of view, using reaction-diffusion modeling, this result means that the fragmentation of the habitat of an invading population slows down the invasion. We prove that this property does not hold in higher dimension, if $μ^*$…
In this paper, we extend the definition of fractional gradients found in Mazowiecka-Schikorra to tempered distributions on $\R^n$, introduce associated regularisation procedures and establish some first regularity results for distributional fractional gradients in $L^{1}_{od}$. The key feature is the introduction of a suitable space of off-diagonal Schwarz functions $\mathcal{S}_{od}(\R^{2n})$, allowing for a dual definition of the fractional gradient on an appropriate space of distributions $\mathcal{S}^{\prime}_{od}(\R^{2n})$ by means of fractional divergences defined on $\mathcal{S}_{od}(\R…
