Interpolation, embeddings and traces of anisotropic fractional Sobolev spaces with temporal weights (Q665519)

The authors investigate a class of anisotropic fractional Sobolev spaces on space-time with weights in the time variable. They treat interpolation results for such spaces, Sobolev type embeddings as well as temporal and spatial trace theorems. They intend to apply these results to quasilinear parabolic evolution equations with nonlinear boundary conditions in subsequent papers. The main focus of the present work is the presence of the temporal weights. This paper is an extension of some work of Denk, Hieber, Prüss and Zacher (see references [5]--[7] of the present paper), namely the authors consider the weights \(t^{p(1-\mu)}\) and apply the methods from these papers [5]--[7]. The crucial point for the properties of the function spaces introduced in Section 2 is that the operator \(-\delta_{t}\) is maximally accretive and has a bounded \(\mathcal H^{\infty}\)-calculus on \(L_{p,\mu}(\mathbb R_{+};E)\) (if \(E\) is of class \(\mathcal{HT}\)), see Lemma 2.6 and Theorem 2.7. Further, using a theorem of Yagi, one can conclude that the spaces \(H^{s}_{p,\mu}(\mathbb R_{+};E)\) are the domains of fractional powers of \(1-\delta_{t},\) see Proposition 2.9. In such a way the authors establish the natural interpolation properties for the scale of \(W_{p,\mu}^{s}\) and \(H^{s}_{p,\mu}\) in Lemma 2.8. Section 3 is dedicated to weighted anisotropic spaces. A fundamental embedding result is Proposition 3.2 which can be used to conclude the desired mapping properties of spatial derivatives in Lemma 3.4. Another important result is Theorem 4.2 on the time traces of the anisotropic fractional spaces. Finally, the authors deduce Theorem 4.5 on spatial traces. It seems to be a very interesting paper for PDE-experts.