Seminar
Anisotropic function spaces and maximal regularity for parabolic problems IV, Herbert Amann, University of Zürich Switzerland, Mon, 9 February, 2009, 10:00 a.m. A-233
Abstract
In recent years the optimal solvability of parabolic evolution equations has attracted much interest. New functional analytic developments, the theory of bounded imaginary powers and Fourier multiplier theorems with operator valued symbols, for example, have led to new proofs for classical boundary value problems and beyond that, allowed for an efficient treatment and understanding of further problems which have been out of reach so far by
classical techniques.
Whereas the optimal solvability of parabolic boundary value problems
in strong settings is by now well understood, this is not so for the weak
setting. It is well known that that the theory of weak solutions for elliptic
and parabolic differential equations is of paramount importance for most
boundary value problems of mathematical physics, for nonlinear reaction
diffusion equations or the Navier Stokes equations of fluid dynamics, to
name just two. However, up to now, there is no complete theory of maximal
regularity for weak solutions of parabolic boundary value problems. This is
true even in the "simple" L_2 setting, in spite of the efforts of J-L. Lions and
E. Magenes who developed an impressive machinery to solve this problem.
In recent work we have studied the problem of maximal regularity for parabolic
evolution equations and not only complemented the Lions-Magenes theory but, more importantly, established the optimal weak solvability in the
Lp-setting. Our approach is based on an in-depth study of the theory of
anisotropic function spaces, in particular of the behavior of these spaces
on manifolds with corners, and on the Marcinkiewicz multiplier theorem,
among other things.
In this lecture series we shall explain how anisotropic function spaces
occur quite naturally in this theory and present some of the main ideas and
techniques of our approach.