This work deals with some classes of linear second order partial differential
operators with non-negative characteristic form and underlying non-
Euclidean structures. These structures are determined by families of locally
Lipschitz-continuous vector fields in RN, generating metric spaces of Carnot-
Carath´eodory type. The Carnot-Carath´eodory metric related to a family
{Xj}j=1,...,m is the control distance obtained by minimizing the time needed
to go from two points along piecewise trajectories of vector fields. We are
mainly interested in the causes in which a Sobolev-type inequality holds with
respect to the X-gradient, and/or the X-control distance is Doubling with
respect to the Lebesgue measure in RN. This study is divided into three
parts (each corresponding to a chapter), and the subject of each one is a
class of operators that includes the class of the subsequent one.
In the first chapter, after recalling “X-ellipticity” and related concepts
introduced by Kogoj and Lanconelli in [KL00], we show a Maximum Principle
for linear second order differential operators for which we only assume
a Sobolev-type inequality together with a lower terms summability. Adding
some crucial hypotheses on measure and on vector fields (Doubling property
and Poincar´e inequality), we will be able to obtain some Liouville-type results.
This chapter is based on the paper [GL03] by Guti´errez and Lanconelli.
In the second chapter we treat some ultraparabolic equations on Lie
groups. In this case RN is the support of a Lie group, and moreover we require that vector fields satisfy left invariance. After recalling some results
of Cinti [Cin07] about this class of operators and associated potential theory,
we prove a scalar convexity for mean-value operators of L-subharmonic
functions, where L is our differential operator.
In the third chapter we prove a necessary and sufficient condition of regularity,
for boundary points, for Dirichlet problem on an open subset of RN related
to sub-Laplacian. On a Carnot group we give the essential background
for this type of operator, and introduce the notion of “quasi-boundedness”.
Then we show the strict relationship between this notion, the fundamental
solution of the given operator, and the regularity of the boundary points.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unibo.it/oai:amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it:949 |
| Date | 30 June 2008 |
| Creators | Tommasoli, Andrea <1976> |
| Contributors | Lanconelli, Ermanno |
| Publisher | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| Source Sets | Università di Bologna |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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