{"title":"Higher relative index theorems for foliations","authors":"Moulay Tahar Benameur , James L. Heitsch","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we solve the general case of the cohomological relative index problem for foliations of non-compact manifolds. In particular, we significantly generalize the groundbreaking results of Gromov and Lawson, [20], to Dirac operators defined along the leaves of foliations of non-compact complete Riemannian manifolds, by involving all the terms of the Connes-Chern character, especially the higher order terms in Haefliger cohomology. The zero-th order term corresponding to holonomy invariant measures was carried out in [8] and becomes a special case of our main results here. In particular, for two leafwise Dirac operators on two foliated manifolds which agree near infinity, we define a relative topological index and the Connes-Chern character of a relative analytic index, both being in relative Haefliger cohomology. We show that these are equal. This invariant can be paired with closed holonomy invariant currents (which agree near infinity) to produce higher relative scalar invariants. When we relate these invariants to the leafwise index bundles, we restrict to Riemannian foliations on manifolds of sub-exponential growth. This allows us to prove a higher relative index bundle theorem, extending the classical index bundle theorem of [5]. Finally, we construct examples of foliations and use these invariants to prove that their spaces of leafwise positive scalar curvature metrics have infinitely many path-connected components, completely new results which are not available from [8]. In particular, these results confirm the well-known idea that important geometric information of foliations is embodied in the higher terms of the <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>ˆ</mo></mrow></mover></math></span> genus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martingale suitable weak solutions of 3-D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with vorticity bounds","authors":"Weiquan Chen , Zhao Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We construct martingale suitable weak solutions for 3-dimensional incompressible stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with generally non-linear noise. In deterministic setting, as widely known, “suitable weak solutions” are Leray-Hopf weak solutions enjoying two different types of local energy inequalities (LEIs). In stochastic setting, we apply the idea of “martingale solution”, avoid transforming to random system, and show new stochastic versions of the two local energy inequalities. In particular, in additive and linear multiplicative noise case, OU-processes and the exponential formulas DO NOT play a role in our formulation of LEIs. This is different to <span><span>[16]</span></span>, <span><span>[44]</span></span> where the additive noise case is dealt. Also, we successfully apply the concept of “a.e. super-martingale” to describe this local energy behavior. To relate the well-known “dissipative weak solutions” come up with in <span><span>[12]</span></span>, we derive a local energy equality and extend the concept onto stochastic setting naturally. For further regularity of solutions, we are able to bound the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>T</mi><mo>]</mo><mo>;</mo><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><mi>Ω</mi><mo>×</mo><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span>-norm of the vorticity and <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>+</mo><mi>δ</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><mi>Ω</mi><mo>×</mo><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>T</mi><mo>]</mo><mo>×</mo><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span>-norm of the gradient of the vorticity, in case that the initial vorticity is a finite regular signed measure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111081"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The logarithmic Sobolev inequality on non-compact self-shrinkers","authors":"Guofang Wang , Chao Xia , Xiqiang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the paper we establish an optimal logarithmic Sobolev inequality for complete, non-compact, properly embedded self-shrinkers in the Euclidean space, which generalizes a recent result of Brendle <span><span>[10]</span></span> for closed self-shrinkers. We first provide a proof for the logarithmic Sobolev inequality in the Euclidean space by using the Alexandrov-Bakelman-Pucci (ABP) method. Then we use this approach to show an optimal logarithmic Sobolev inequality for complete, non-compact, properly embedded self-shrinkers in the Euclidean space, which is a sharp version of the result of Ecker in <span><span>[21]</span></span>. The proof is a noncompact modification of Brendle's proof for closed submanifolds and has a big potential to provide new inequalities in noncompact manifolds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111085"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contractive representations of odometer semigroup","authors":"Anindya Ghatak , Narayan Rakshit , Jaydeb Sarkar , Mansi Suryawanshi","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given a natural number <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span>, the odometer semigroup <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, also known as the adding machine or the Baumslag-Solitar monoid with two generators, is a well-known object in group theory. This paper examines the odometer semigroup in relation to representations of bounded linear operators. We focus on noncommutative operators and prove that contractive representations of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> always admit to nicer representations of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. We give a complete description of representations of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> on the Fock space and relate it to the odometer lifting and subrepresentations of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. Along the way, we also classify Nica covariant representations of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111077"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Product systems arising from Lévy processes","authors":"Remus Floricel , Peter Wadel","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the structure of product systems of Hilbert spaces derived from Banach space-valued Lévy processes. We establish conditions under which these product systems are completely spatial and show that Gaussian Lévy processes with non-degenerate covariance always give rise to product systems of type I. Furthermore, we construct a continuum of non-isomorphic product systems of type <span><math><mi>I</mi><msub><mrow><mi>I</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msub></math></span> from pure jump Lévy processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111087"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fluctuations of the Stieltjes transform of the empirical spectral distribution of selfadjoint polynomials in Wigner and deterministic diagonal matrices","authors":"Serban Belinschi , Mireille Capitaine , Sandrine Dallaporta , Maxime Fevrier","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the fluctuations around the mean of the Stieltjes transform of the empirical spectral distribution of any selfadjoint noncommutative polynomial in a Wigner matrix and a deterministic diagonal matrix. We obtain the convergence in distribution to a centered complex Gaussian process whose covariance is expressed in terms of operator-valued subordination functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111083"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144270403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability of n-solitons for the Camassa-Holm equation","authors":"Ji Li, Honghu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we investigate the stability of <em>n</em>-soliton solutions to the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation. This is achieved by constructing a Lyapunov functional comprised of local independent conservation laws and higher order terms. We first address the issue of non-uniqueness of local conservation laws arising from the recursion operator, and establish the linear representation between two series of local laws generated by the bi-Hamiltonian structure. With the construction of local independent laws, it is then demonstrated that <em>n</em>-solitons actually realize non-isolated constraint minimizers, based on spectral analysis and computation of Wronskain determinant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111084"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xavier Cabré , Iñigo U. Erneta , Juan-Carlos Felipe-Navarro
{"title":"Null-Lagrangians and calibrations for general nonlocal functionals and an application to the viscosity theory","authors":"Xavier Cabré , Iñigo U. Erneta , Juan-Carlos Felipe-Navarro","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article we build a null-Lagrangian and a calibration for general nonlocal elliptic functionals in the presence of a field of extremals. Thus, our construction assumes the existence of a family of solutions to the Euler-Lagrange equation whose graphs produce a foliation. Then, as a consequence of the calibration, we show the minimality of each leaf in the foliation. Our model case is the energy functional for the fractional Laplacian, for which such a null-Lagrangian was recently discovered by us.</div><div>As a first application of our calibration, we show that monotone solutions to translation invariant nonlocal equations are minimizers. Our second application is somehow surprising, since here “minimality” is assumed instead of being concluded. We will see that the foliation framework is broad enough to provide a proof which establishes that minimizers of nonlocal elliptic functionals are viscosity solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111086"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Joseph K. Miller , Nataša Pavlović , Maja Tasković
{"title":"On the global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Boltzmann hierarchy","authors":"Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Joseph K. Miller , Nataša Pavlović , Maja Tasković","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we establish the global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Boltzmann hierarchy, a hierarchy of equations instrumental for the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from many particles. Inspired by available <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>-based a-priori estimate for solutions to the Boltzmann equation, we develop the polynomially weighted <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> a-priori bounds for solutions to the Boltzmann hierarchy and handle the factorial growth of the number of terms in the Dyson's series by reorganizing the sum through a combinatorial technique known as the Klainerman-Machedon board game argument. This paper is the first work that exploits such a combinatorial technique in conjunction with an <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>-based estimate to prove uniqueness of the mild solutions to the Boltzmann hierarchy. Our proof of existence of global in time mild solutions to the Boltzmann hierarchy for admissible initial data is constructive and it employs known global in time solutions to the Boltzmann equation via a Hewitt-Savage type theorem.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111079"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verena Bögelein , Frank Duzaar , Naian Liao , Giovanni Molica Bisci , Raffaella Servadei
{"title":"Regularity for the fractional p-Laplace equation","authors":"Verena Bögelein , Frank Duzaar , Naian Liao , Giovanni Molica Bisci , Raffaella Servadei","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Higher Sobolev and Hölder regularity is studied for local weak solutions of the fractional <em>p</em>-Laplace equation of order <em>s</em> in the case <span><math><mi>p</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span>. Depending on the regime considered, i.e.<span><span><span><math><mn>0</mn><mo><</mo><mi>s</mi><mo>≤</mo><mfrac><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow></mfrac><mspace></mspace><mtext>or</mtext><mspace></mspace><mfrac><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo><</mo><mi>s</mi><mo><</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo></math></span></span></span> precise local estimates are proven. The relevant estimates are stable if the fractional order <em>s</em> reaches 1; the known Sobolev regularity estimates for the local <em>p</em>-Laplace are recovered. The case <span><math><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span> reproduces the almost <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>loc</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>+</mo><mi>s</mi><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-regularity for the fractional Laplace equation of any order <span><math><mi>s</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111078"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}