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Mat. Sb. (N.S.), 1970 Volume 81(123), Number 2, Pages 192–208 (Mi sm3370)

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On means and the Laplacian of functions on Hilbert space

I. Ya. Dorfman


Abstract: In his book Problemes concrets d'analyse fonctionnelle, Paul Levy introduced the concept of the mean $M(f,a,\rho)$ of the function $f$ on Hilbert space over the ball of radius $\rho$ with center at the point $a$, and investigated the properties of the Laplacian
$$ Lf(a)=\lim_{\rho\to0}\frac{M(f,a,\rho)-f(a)}{\rho^2}, $$
but he did not determine which functions have means. Moreover, the mean $M(f,a,\rho)$ and the Laplacian $Lf(a)$ are not invariant, in general, under rotation about the point $a$.
In the present paper we give a class of functions with invariant means on Hilbert space. An example of such a class is the set of functions $f(x)$ for which $f(x)=\gamma(x)I+T(x)$, where the function $\gamma(x)$ is uniformly continuous and has invariant means, $I$ is the identity operator, and $T(x)$ is a symmetric, completely continuous operator whose eigenvalues, arranged in decreasing order of absolute value $\lambda_j(x)$, have the property that $\frac1n\sum_{i=1}^n\lambda_i(x)\to0$ uniformly in $x$ (§ 3). The invariant mean of such a function exists and is given by the formula
$$ M(f,x,r)=f(x)+\int_0^r\rho M(\gamma,x,\rho)\,d\rho, $$
and its Laplacian is $Lf(a)=\frac{\gamma(a)}2$. In § 4 we consider the Dirichlet problem and the Poisson problem for the ball and give sufficient conditions for the solution to be expressed by the Levy formulas.
Bibliography: 7 titles.

UDC: 513.881

MSC: 46E20, 47A70, 47L30, 15A18

Received: 23.03.1969


 English version:
Mathematics of the USSR-Sbornik, 1970, 10:2, 181–196

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