Elliptic Problems and Hörmander Spaces

Abstract

The paper gives a survey of the modern results on elliptic problems on the Hörmander function spaces. More precisely, elliptic problems are studied on a Hilbert scale of the isotropic Hörmander spaces parametrized by a real number and a function slowly varying at +∞ in the Karamata sense. This refined scale is finer than the Sobolev scale and is closed with respect to the interpolation with a function parameter. The Fredholm property of elliptic operators and elliptic boundary-value problems is preserved for this scale. A local refined smoothness of the elliptic problem solution is studied. An abstract construction of classes of function spaces in which the elliptic problem is a Fredholm one is found. In particular, some generalizations of the Lions-Magenes theorems are given.