Ari Laptev – författare

The fundamental contributions of Professor Maz''ya to the theory of function spaces and especially Sobolev spaces are well known and often play a key role in the study of different aspects of the theory, which is demonstrated, in particular, by presented new results and reviews from world-recognized specialists. Sobolev type spaces, extensions, capacities, Sobolev inequalities, pseudo-Poincare inequalities, optimal Hardy-Sobolev-Maz''ya inequalities, Maz''ya''s isocapacitary inequalities in a measure-metric space setting and many other actual topics are discussed.

Topics of this volume are close to scientific interests of Professor Maz''ya and use, directly or indirectly, the fundamental influential Maz''ya''s works penetrating, in a sense, the theory of PDEs.

In particular, recent advantages in the study of semilinear elliptic equations, stationary Navier-Stokes equations, the Stokes system in convex polyhedra, periodic scattering problems, problems with perturbed boundary at a conic point, singular perturbations arising in elliptic shells and other important problems in mathematical physics are presented.

This volume reflects the variety of areas where Maz''ya''s results are fundamental, influential and/or pioneering. New advantages in such areas are presented by world-recognized experts and include, in particularly, Beurling''s minimum principle, inverse hyperbolic problems, degenerate oblique derivative problems, the Lp-contractivity of the generated semigroups, some class of singular integral operators, general Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum and Lieb-Thirring inequalities,domains with rough boundaries, integral and supremum operators, finite rank Toeplitz operators, etc.

Boris Pavlov (1936-2016), to whom this volume is dedicated, was a prominent specialist in analysis, operator theory, and mathematical physics. As one of the most influential members of the St. Petersburg Mathematical School, he was one of the founders of the Leningrad School of Non-self-adjoint Operators.  This volume collects research papers originating from two conferences that were organized in memory of Boris Pavlov: “Spectral Theory and Applications”, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2016, and “Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics – OTAMP2016” held at the Euler Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, in August 2016. The volume also includes water-color paintings by Boris Pavlov, some personal photographs, as well as tributes from friends and colleagues.