Algebra properties for Sobolev spaces -- applications to semilinear PDEs on manifolds (Q355969)

Some algebra properties are given for generalized Sobolev spaces \(W^{s,p}\cap L^\infty\) on a Riemannian manifold (or, more generally, a homogeneous type space), where \(W^{s,p}\) is a Bessel potential of the kind \((1+ L)^{-s/m}(L^p)\) and \(L\) is an operator generating a heat semigroup with off-diagonal decay. These results are extended to Riemannian manifolds with weaker geometrical conditions using the \(L^p\)-boundedness of the Riesz transformations. Two different approaches, namely Bony's paraproducts and functionals, are used. The authors claim that their results are new on Riemannian manifolds with an unbounded geometry and even for Sobolev spaces in the case of Euclidean spaces. Nonlinear transformations between Sobolev spaces are also studied and then applied to obtain well-posedness results for semilinear PDEs (Schrödinger and heat equations) with regular data. This extends previous work by Strichartz, Kato-Ponce and many other authors.