The Resolvent Operator

This chapter describes the construction of a resolvent operator using the Laplace transform of a parametrix for the heat kernel and a perturbative argument. In the equation (μ‎-L) R(μ‎) f = f, R(μ‎) is a right inverse for (μ‎-L). In Hölder spaces, these are the natural elliptic estimates for generalized Kimura diffusions. The chapter first constructs the resolvent kernel using an induction over the maximal codimension of bP, and proves various estimates on it, along with corresponding estimates for the solution operator for the homogeneous Cauchy problem. It then considers holomorphic semi-groups and uses contour integration to construct the solution to the heat equation, concluding with a discussion of Kimura diffusions where all coefficients have the same leading homogeneity.

Transport-Elliptic Estimates

This chapter solves the underdetermined, elliptic equation ∂ⱼQsuperscript jl = Usuperscript l and Qsuperscript jl = Qsuperscript lj (Equation 1069) in order to eliminate the error term in the parametrix. For the proof of the Main Lemma, estimates for Q and the material derivative as well as its spatial derivatives are derived. The chapter finds a solution to Equation (1069) with good transport properties by solving it via a Transport equation obtained by commuting the divergence operator with the material derivative. It concludes by showing the solutions, spatial derivative estimates, and material derivative estimates for the Transport-Elliptic equation, as well as cutting off the solution to the Transport-Elliptic equation.

Trudinger–Moser inequality on the whole plane and extremal functions

In this paper, we study a class of Trudinger–Moser inequality in the Sobolev space [Formula: see text]. Setting [Formula: see text] we prove: [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] there exist extremal functions for [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text]. Blow-up analysis, elliptic estimates and a version of compactness result due to Lions are used to prove (1) and (3). The proof of (2) is based on computations of testing functions which are a combination of eigenfunctions with the Moser sequence.

The global future stability of the FLRW solutions to the Dust-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant

We study small perturbations of the Friedman–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) solutions to the dust-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant in the case that the space-like Cauchy hypersurfaces are diffeomorphic to 𝕋3. We show that the FLRW solutions are nonlinearly globally future-stable under small perturbations of their initial data. In our analysis, we construct harmonic-type coordinates such that the cosmological constant results in the presence of dissipative terms in the evolution equations. Our result extends those of [I. Rodnianski and J. Speck, The nonlinear future stability of the FLRW family of solutions to the irrotational Euler–Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 15 (2013) 2369–2462; J. Speck, The nonlinear future stability of the FLRW family of solutions to the Euler–Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant, Selecta Math. 18 (2012) 633–715; C. Lübbe and J. A. Valiente Kroon, A conformal approach for the analysis of the nonlinear stability of pure radiation cosmologies, Ann. Phys. 328 (2013) 1–25], where analogous results were proved for the Euler–Einstein system under the equations of state [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. The dust-Einstein system is the case cs = 0. The main difficulty that we overcome here is that the dust's energy density loses one degree of differentiability compared to the cases [Formula: see text], which introduces many obstacles for closing the estimates. To resolve this difficulty, we commute the equations with a well-chosen differential operator and derive elliptic estimates that complement the energy estimates of [I. Rodnianski and J. Speck, The nonlinear future stability of the FLRW family of solutions to the irrotational Euler–Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 15 (2013) 2369–2462; J. Speck, The nonlinear future stability of the FLRW family of solutions to the Euler–Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant, Selecta Math. 18 (2012) 633–715]. Our results apply in particular to small perturbations of the vanishing dust state containing vacuum regions.