{"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}
{"title":"The weak convergence for a measure related to a class of conformally invariant fully nonlinear operator","authors":"Xi-Nan Ma , Wangzhe Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Trudinger-Wang introduced the notion of k-Hessian measure associated with k-convex functions, not necessarily continuous, and proved the weak continuity of the associated k-Hessian measure with respect to local <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> convergence in 1999. In this paper we find a special divergence structure for the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>k</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>-Yamabe operator which is conformally invariant, and prove the weak continuity of the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>k</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>-Yamabe operator with respect to local <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> convergence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111080"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203215","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":"An improved multiplier theorem on rank one noncompact symmetric spaces","authors":"Błażej Wróbel","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We prove a multiplier theorem on rank one noncompact symmetric spaces which improves aspects of existing results. Namely, we partially drop specific assumptions on the multiplier function such as a Mikhlin-Hörmander condition. This is replaced by a requirement that parts of the multiplier function on the critical <em>p</em> strip give rise to bounded Fourier multipliers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111082"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221356","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":"Ancient and expanding spin ALE Ricci flows","authors":"Isaac M. Lopez, Tristan Ozuch","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111062","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111062","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We classify spin ALE ancient Ricci flows and spin ALE expanding solitons with suitable groups at infinity. In particular, the only spin ancient Ricci flows with groups at infinity in <span><math><mi>S</mi><mi>U</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> and mild decay at infinity are hyperkähler ALE metrics. The main idea of the proof, of independent interest, consists in showing that the large-scale behavior of Perelman's <em>μ</em>-functional on any ALE orbifold with non-negative scalar curvature is controlled by a renormalized <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ALE</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>-functional related to a notion of weighted mass.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111062"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242639","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":"Strict comparison and stable rank one","authors":"Huaxin Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Let <em>A</em> be a <em>σ</em>-unital finite simple <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>⁎</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>-algebra which has strict comparison property. We show that if the rank map Γ from the Cuntz semigroup to certain lower semicontinuous affine functions is surjective, then <em>A</em> has tracial approximate oscillation zero and stable rank one. Equivalently, if <em>A</em> is a <em>σ</em>-unital finite simple <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>⁎</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>-algebra which has an almost unperforated and almost divisible Cuntz semigroup, then <em>A</em> has stable rank one and tracial approximate oscillation zero.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 9","pages":"Article 111065"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144196103","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":"On steady states for the Vlasov-Schrödinger-Poisson system","authors":"Younghun Hong , Sangdon Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Vlasov-Schrödinger-Poisson system is a kinetic-quantum hybrid model describing quasi-lower dimensional electron gases. For this system, we construct a large class of 2D kinetic/1D quantum steady states in a bounded domain as generalized free energy minimizers, and we show their finite subband structure, monotonicity, uniqueness and <em>conditional</em> dynamical stability. Our proof is based on the concentration-compactness principle, but some additional difficulties arise due to lack of compactness originated from the hybrid nature (see <span><span>Remark 1.9</span></span>). To overcome the difficulties, we introduce a 3-step refinement of a minimizing sequence by rearrangement and partial minimization problems, and the coercivity lemma for the free energy (<span><span>Lemma 5.3</span></span>) is crucially employed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15750,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional Analysis","volume":"289 8","pages":"Article 111069"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138046","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}