The Structure of Functions (Hardcover, 2001)

I Decompositions of Functions.- 1 Introduction, heuristics, and preliminaries.- 2 Spaces on ?n: the regular case.- 3 Spaces on ?n: the general case.- 4 An application: the Fubini property.- 5 Spaces on domains: localization and Hardy inequalities.- 6 Spaces on domains. decompositions.- 7 Spaces on manifolds.- 8 Taylor expansions of distributions.- 9 Traces on sets, related function spaces and their decompositions.- II Sharp Inequalities.- 10 Introduction: Outline of methods and results.- 11 Classical inequalities.- 12 Envelopes.- 13 The critical case.- 14 The super-critical case.- 15 The sub-critical case.- 16 Hardy inequalities.- 17 Complements.- III Fractal Elliptic Operators.- 18 Introduction.- 19 Spectral theory for the fractal Laplacian.- 20 The fractal Dirichlet problem.- 21 Spectral theory on manifolds.- 22 Isotropic fractals and related function spaces.- 23 Isotropic fractal drums.- IV Truncations and Semi-linear Equations.- 24 Introduction.- 25 Truncations.- 26 The Q-operator.- 27 Semi-linear equations; the Q-method.- References.- Symbois.