Weak convergence under nonlinearities

In this paper, we prove that if a Nemytskii operator maps Lp(omega, E) into Lq(omega, F), for p, q greater than 1, E, F separable Banach spaces and F reflexive, then a sequence that converge weakly and a.e. is sent to a weakly convergent sequence. We give a counterexample proving that if q = 1 and p is greater than 1 we may not have weak sequential continuity of such operator. However, we prove that if p = q = 1, then a weakly convergent sequence that converges a.e. is mapped into a weakly convergent sequence by a Nemytskii operator. We show an application of the weak continuity of the Nemytskii operators by solving a nonlinear functional equation on W1,p(omega), providing the weak continuity of some kind of resolvent operator associated to it and getting a regularity result for such solution.

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Main Authors: MOREIRA,DIEGO R., TEIXEIRA,EDUARDO V. O.
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2003
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652003000100002
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