Home page of Steve Hofmann

Personal information:
Name: Steve Hofmann, Curators' Professor of Mathematics, University of Missouri
Office: Mathematical Sciences Building 108
Phone number (office): 1-573-884-0616
Email: hofmann"at"math.missouri.edu

Research interests: Harmonic analysis with applications to partial differential equations.

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  NOTE:  The author acknowledges support of the National Science Foundation (currently grant number DMS 0245401)

                    


                               Selected Publications and Preprints


                                                        Recent Preprints

*The Green function estimates for strongly elliptic systems of second order,
with S.Kim,  to appear, Manuscripta Math.

*Analyticity of layer potentials and $L^2$ solvability of boundary value problems
for divergence form elliptic equations with complex $L^\infty$ coefficients,
with M. Alfonseca, P. Auscher, A. Axelsson and S. Kim, preprint.

*Functional calculus of Dirac operators and complex perturbations of
Neumann and Dirichlet problems,
with P. Auscher and A. Axelsson, preprint

*Dahlberg's bilinear estimate for solutions of divergence form complex elliptic equations,
to appear, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

*Hardy and BMO spaces associated to divergence form elliptic operators,
with S. Mayboroda, to appear, Math. Ann.

*A proof of the local $Tb$ Theorem for standard Calderon-Zygmund operators,
(unpublished manuscript)

*Geometric and Transformational Properties of Lipschitz Domains,
Semmes-Kenig-Toro Domains, and Other Classes of Finite Perimeter Domains,
with M. Mitrea and M. Taylor, to appear J. Geom. Analysis


       Papers on the Kato problem
      For survey articles on this topic see below.
*The solution of the Kato problem in two dimensions, with A. McIntosh, Proceedings of the conference on harmonic analysis and PDE held at El Escorial, June 2000,  Publ. Mat. Vol. extra, 2002 pp. 143-160.

*The Solution of the Kato Problem for Divergence Form Elliptic Operators with Gaussian Heat Kernel Bounds, with M. Lacey and A. McIntosh, Annals of Math. 156 (2002),  pp 623-631.

*The solution of the Kato square root problem for elliptic operators on $\mathbb{R}^n$, with P. Auscher, M. Lacey, A. McIntosh and P. Tchamitchian,  Annals of Math. 156 (2002),  pp 633-654.

*Extrapolation of Carleson measures and the analyticity of Kato's square root operators,  with P. Auscher, J. L. Lewis, and P. Tchamitchian, Acta Math.  187 (2001), pp 161-190.

*The Kato square root problem for higher order elliptic operators and systems on ${\Bbb R}^n$, with P. Auscher, A. McIntosh, and P. Tchamitichian, dedicated to the memory of Tosio Kato. J. Evol. Equ. 1 (2001) no. 4 pp. 361-385.



                                                        $L^p$ estimates for Riesz transforms
                                                                      For survey articles on this topic see below

*Riesz transforms on manifolds and heat kernel regularity, with P. Auscher, T. Coulhon and X. Duong,  Annales Scientifiques de L'ENS (4) 37 (2004), 911-957.

*$L^p$ bounds for Riesz transforms and square roots associated to second order elliptic operators,  with J. Martell, Pub. Mat.  47 (2003), 497-515.



                                                     Decay of Fourier transforms and applications


*Circular averages and Falconer/Erdos distance conjecture in the plane for random metrics, with A. Iosevich,  PAMS 133 (2005), 133--143.

*Lattice points inside random ellipsoids, with A. Iosevich and D. Weidinger, Mich. Math. J.  52 (2004),  pp. 13-21.

*Sharp rate of decay of the Fourier transform of a bounded set, with L. Brandolini, and A. Iosevich,  GAFA 13 (2003), 671-680.


                                                    Parabolic and elliptic equations and SIOs
                                                                  For survey articles on this topic see below.
 

*The $L^p$ Neumann problem  for the heat equation in noncylindrical domains, with J.L. Lewis,  J. Functional Analysis, Vol 220 (2005), pp. 1-54.

*Gaussian estimates for fundamental solutions to certain parabolic systems, with Seick Kim, Pub. Mat. 48 (2004), 481-496.

*Caloric Measure in Parabolic Flat Domains,  with J. L. Lewis and K. Nystrom, Duke Math. J. 122 (2004),  no. 2, 281--346.

*Existence of big pieces of graphs for parabolic problems,  with J. L. Lewis and K. Nystrom, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math.  28  (2003),  355--384.

*Spectral properties of parabolic layer potentials and transmission boundary problems in nonsmooth domains, with J. L. Lewis and M. Mitrea, Ill. J. Math. 47  (2003),  no. 4, 1345--1361.

*The Dirichlet problem for parabolic operators with singular drift terms, with J. Lewis, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 151 (2001) no. 719.

*Square functions of Calderon type and applications, with J. Lewis, Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 17 (2001) no.1 pp.1-20.

A generalized characterization of commutators of parabolic singular integrals, with X. Li and D. Yang, Canad. Math. Bull. 42 (1999) no.4 pp. 463-477.

*The $L^p$ regularity problem for the heat equation in non-cylindrical domains, with J. Lewis, Illinois Math. J. 43 (1999) no. 4 pp. 752-769.

The Calderon commutator along a parabola, with A. Carbery and J. Wright, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 126 (1999) no.3 pp. 543-553.

An off-diagonal $T(1)$ theorem and applications. With an appendix "The Mary Weiss lemma" by Loukas Grafakos and the author. J. Functional Analysis 160 (1998) no.2 pp. 581-622.

*Parabolic singular integrals of Calderon-type, rough operators, and caloric layer potentials, Duke Math. J. 90 (1997) no.2 pp. 209-259.

*$L^2$ solvability and representation by caloric layer potentials in time varying domains, with J. L. Lewis, Annals of Math. 144  (1996), 349-420.

Boundedness criteria for rough singular integrals, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 70 (1995) no.2 pp.386-410.

On singular integrals of Calderon-type in ${\Bbb R}^n$, Rev. Mat. Iberamer. 10 (1994) no.3 pp. 467-505.

A characterization of commutators of parabolic singular integrals, Fourier analysis and partial differential equations (Miraflores de la Siera, 1992) Stud. Adv. Math. CRC, Boca Raton, FL (1995) pp. 195-210.

On certain non-standard Calderon-Zygmund operators, Studia Math. 109 (1994), no.2 pp. 105-131.

Weighted norm inequalities and vector valued inequalities for certain rough operators, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 42 (1993) no.1 pp.1-14.

A note on weighted Sobolev spaces and regularity of commutators and layer potentials associated to the heat equation, Proc. Amer. Math. Sci. 118 (1993) no.4 pp.1087-1096.

Weighted inequalities for commutators of rough singular integrals, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 39 (1990) no.4 pp. 1275-1304.

Singular integrals with power weights, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 110 (1990) no.2 pp. 343-353.

Weighted weak-type (1,1) inequalities for rough operators, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 107 (1989) no.2 pp. 423-435.

Weak (1,1) boundedness of singular integrals with non-smooth kernel, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 103 (1988) no.1 pp. 260-264.
 

                                                                       Expository and Survey articles

*Local Tb Theorems and applications in PDE, Proceedings of the ICM Madrid 2006.

*Carleson Measures, Trees, Extrapolation, and Tb Theorems, with P. Auscher, C. Muscalu, T. Tao, C. Thiele,
Pub. Math. 46 (2002), 257-325

The solution of Kato's conjectures, with P. Auscher, M. Lacey, J. Lewis, A. McIntosh and P. Tchamitchian, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math. 332 (2001) no.7, pp. 601-606.

*A short course on the Kato problem, Contemp. Math. 289 (2001) pp. 61-77.

The solution of the Kato problem, Contemp. Math. 277 Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, RI (2001).

On parabolic and elliptic measure, with J. Lewis, Acta Univ. Upsaliensis Skr. Uppsala Univ. C Organ. Hist. 64 (1999) , 179-186.

The $L^p$ Neumann and  regularity problems for the heat equation in non-cylindrical domains,   with J. L. Lewis,
Journées "Équations aux Dérivées Partielles" (Saint-Jean-de-Monts, 1998), Exp. No. VI, 7 pp.,  Univ. Nantes, Nantes, 1998.

*Heat kernels and Riesz Transforms, Cont. Math. 398 (2006).