Complex Powers of the Laplacian on Affine Nested Fractals as Calderón-Zygmundoperators

Marius Ionescu; Luke G. Rogers

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.2155

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2014, Volume 13, Issue 6: 2155-2175. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.2155

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Complex Powers of the Laplacian on Affine Nested Fractals as Calderón-Zygmund operators

Marius Ionescu^1, and
Luke G. Rogers^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 21402
2.
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269-3009

Received: June 2011

Revised: July 2012

Published: November 2014

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We give the first natural examples of Calderón-Zygmund operators in the theory of analysis on post-critically finite self-similar fractals. This is achieved by showing that the purely imaginary Riesz and Bessel potentials on nested fractals with $3$ or more boundary points are of this type. It follows that these operators are bounded on $L^{p}$, $1 < p < \infty$ and satisfy weak $1$-$1$ bounds. The analysis may be extended to infinite blow-ups of these fractals, and to product spaces based on the fractal or its blow-up.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 28A80, 46F12; Secondary: 42C99, 81Q10.

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