Generalization of the Sobolev-Lieb-Thirring inequalities and applications to the dimension of attractors (Q1174243)

Introducing the concept of suborthonormal family in \(\mathbb{L}^ 2(\Omega)\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded open set of \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) with some regularity hypothesis for its boundary, it is proved that for certain values of the number \(p\), there exist two positive constants \(\kappa\) and \(\psi\) such that, for every finite family in \(\mathbb{H}^ m(\Omega)\equiv(H^ m(\Omega)^ k)\) which is suborthonormal in \(\mathbb{L}^ 2(\Omega)\) \[ (\int_ \Omega\rho(x)^{p/(p-1)}dx)^{2m(p-1)/n}\leq\kappa\int_ \Omega R(x)dx+(\psi/\delta(\Omega)^{2m})\int_ \Omega\rho(x)dx \leqno (1) \] holds, where \(\rho(x)\) is the sum of squares of the functions resulting when one takes the euclidean norm in \(\mathbb{R}^ k\) for every one of the members in the family, and \(R(x)\) is the sum of squares of euclidean norms but in this case corresponding to all \(m\)-order derivatives of all the mmbers of the family. The constants \(\kappa\) and \(\psi\) depend only on \(m,n,k,p\) and the shape of \(\Omega\), but not on the number of members in the family. When the family is contained in \(\mathbb{H}_ 0^ m(\Omega)\) it is proved that the constant \(\psi\) in (1) can be assumed zero, by using the Poincaré inequality. For the proof of the main theorem the authors use a well defined family of functions which are extensions of the formers. For this new family they obtain an inequality similar to (1), and minorizing the left hand side and majorizing the right hand side in a convenient form and taking into account the boundedness of \(\Omega\) and some estimates, they conclude the proof. Another generalization to the Sobolev-Lieb-Thirring inequalities is given in the case \(\Omega=\mathbb{R}^ n\), using in the proof convenient truncations. In this case the constant \(\psi\) is equal to zero. If \(\Omega\) is an unbounded open set such that \(\mathbb{R}^ n\backslash\overline\Omega\) contains a semicone, the inequality holds when in the right hand side norms in \(\mathbb{H}^ m(\Omega)\) appear; this result is proved taking a well chosen family of \(\mathbb{H}^ m(\mathbb{R}^ n)\). Two applications of the Sobolev-Lieb-Thirring inequalities are given for the study of the dimension of attractors associated with P.D.E. in the case of general boundary conditions. Those results are concerned to some bounds of the fractal and Hausdorff dimensions of the universal attractors describing the long time behavior of the magnetohydrodynamic and of the Navier-Stokes equations, both in the two dimensional case.