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ON THE VARIATIONAL CONSTANT ASSOCIATED TO THE $L_{p}$-HARDY INEQUALITY

Part of: Linear function spaces and their duals General theory of linear operators Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

A. D. WARD
A. D. WARD*
Affiliation:
NZ Institute of Advanced Study, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC, 0745 Auckland, New Zealand email adward.work@gmail.com
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Abstract

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Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ be a domain in $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ with nonempty boundary. In Ward [‘On essential self-adjointness, confining potentials and the $L_{p}$-Hardy inequality’, PhD Thesis, NZIAS Massey University, New Zealand, 2014] and [‘The essential self-adjointness of Schrödinger operators on domains with non-empty boundary’, Manuscripta Math.150(3) (2016), 357–370] it was shown that the Schrödinger operator $H=-\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}+V$, with domain of definition $D(H)=C_{0}^{\infty }(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ and $V\in L_{\infty }^{\text{loc}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$, is essentially self-adjoint provided that $V(x)\geq (1-\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}))/d(x)^{2}$. Here $d(x)$ is the Euclidean distance to the boundary and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ is the nonnegative constant associated to the $L_{2}$-Hardy inequality. The conditions required for a domain to admit an $L_{2}$-Hardy inequality are well known and depend intimately on the Hausdorff or Aikawa/Assouad dimension of the boundary. However, there are only a handful of domains where the value of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ is known explicitly. By obtaining upper and lower bounds on the number of cubes appearing in the $k\text{th}$ generation of the Whitney decomposition of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$, we derive an upper bound on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{p}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$, for $p>1$, in terms of the inner Minkowski dimension of the boundary.

Keywords

Lp -Hardy inequalityvariational constantsessential self-adjointness

MSC classification

Primary: 46E35: Sobolev spaces and other spaces of “smooth” functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems
Secondary: 47A63: Operator inequalities 47A05: General (adjoints, conjugates, products, inverses, domains, ranges, etc.) 26D15: Inequalities for sums, series and integrals
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , June 2017 , pp. 405 - 419
Copyright
© 2016 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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