For a uniformly elliptic divergence-form elliptic operator with lower-order coefficients in the supercritical Lebesgue spaces, truncation tests and Moser iteration bound the positive part of a weak subsolution on an interior ball by its Lp norm on a larger ball and the forcing norms. In particular, every weak subsolution of the homogeneous equation is locally bounded above. This is the preliminary estimate needed when a strong maximum principle is phrased using essential suprema.
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The mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation on isIts scaling preserves the Lebesgue space norm , which is the conserved mass.
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A weak solution is an equivalence class satisfying, for every test function ,This is integration by parts for the nonconservative transport equation. In particular, the weak formulation contains as well as . The last integral encodes the initial condition; a pointwise boundary value of an arbitrary Lebesgue space representative is not the definition. Compact support of the test function makes the identity meaningful even if is unbounded.
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Work on a filtered probability space with the usual conditions for a filtration. A continuous martingale belongs to the class of L2-bounded continuous martingales whenThis means a uniform bound over the entire time interval, not merely being square-integrable at each individual time. The L2 martingale convergence theorem gives a terminal variable and almost sure convergence and convergence in the Lebesgue space ; moreover by conditional expectation.
The predictable sigma-algebra on is the smallest sigma-algebra making every left-continuous adapted process measurable. Equivalently, it is generated bywhere the sample coordinate comes first. A previsible process is precisely a process measurable for this predictable sigma-algebra. Values at time zero matter for its definition, although they make no contribution to integration against a continuous quadratic variation starting at zero.
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Write and . The L2 martingale convergence theorem ensures the existence of and yields almost surely. Hence .
For a finite horizon , the Doob L2 maximal inequality for the submartingale givesThe inequality does not require . Send to infinity: the left side increases to by the monotone convergence theorem, and the right side tends to by convergence in the Lebesgue space . Thus the equivalent terminal and maximal norms for L2-bounded continuous martingales satisfyBoth are genuine norms on L2-bounded continuous martingales modulo indistinguishability of stochastic processes: a zero terminal norm gives , first at rational times and then at all times by continuity. This proves that the two norms are equivalent norms.
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For , the Lebesgue space consists of equivalence classes modulo equality almost everywhere of measurable functions satisfyingThe space consists of essentially bounded measurable functions modulo equality almost everywhere, with norm
Let and put . By Hölder's inequality,Taking th roots givesFor , directly integrating gives the same endpoint estimate. Hence when , as in Lp inclusion on a finite measure space.
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No. In the Lebesgue space , letFor every , finiteness of the interval gives , and the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma yieldsThe duality of Lp spaces therefore shows that in . On the other hand,for every . Thus weak convergence does not imply norm convergence in this space; the Weakly null sine sequence in L1 is the required counterexample.
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For , choose nonzero and with . DefineThese functions are continuous and belong to the Lebesgue space , while their restrictions to the hyperplane are all the same:Changing variables in the normal coordinate givesIf the claimed bounded existed, thena contradiction. This scaling argument is the failure of an Lp hyperplane trace.
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If almost everywhere, then almost everywhere, so the integral defining is independent of the representative. Homogeneity and the triangle inequality follow from the corresponding pointwise properties of absolute value. Moreover,so this is a norm on the Lebesgue space of almost-everywhere equivalence classes.
The Riesz-Fischer theorem states that is complete for . Applied with , it says that every -Cauchy sequence of these equivalence classes converges in . Thus is a Banach space.
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For a L2-bounded continuous martingale , define a finite measure on the predictable sigma-algebra by . Its total mass is . The Lebesgue space identifies predictable processes that agree -almost everywhere. Integration against is an isometry from this space into L2-bounded continuous martingales starting at zero by the Itô isometry. This gives the correct integrand space even when the quadratic variation is random or is not absolutely continuous in time.