Cwikel's bound is extended to an operator-valued setting. One application of this result is a semi-classical bound for the number of negative bound states for Schrödinger operators with operator-valued potentials. We recover Cwikel's bound for the Lieb-Thirring constant$L$_{0,3}which is far worse than the best available by Lieb (for scalar potentials). However, it leads to a uniform bound (in the dimension$d$≥3) for the quotient$L$_{0,d}/L^{cl}_{0,d}is the so-called classical constant. This gives some improvement in large dimensions.

If$n$is a non-negative integer, then denote by ∂^{-$n$}$H$^{∞}the space of all complex-valued functions$f$defined on $\mathbb{D}$ such that$f$,$f$^{(1)},$f$^{(2)},...,$f$^{($n$)}belong to$H$^{∞}, with the norm $$\|f\|=\sum_{j=0}^{n}\frac{1}{j!}\|f^{(j)}\|_{\infty}.$$ We prove bounds on the solution in the corona problem for ∂^{-$n$}$H$^{∞}. As corollaries, we obtain estimates in the corona theorem also for some other subalgebras of the Hardy space$H$^{∞}.

The authors establish error estimates for recently developed finite-element methods for incompressible viscous flow in domains with no-slip boundary conditions. The methods arise by discretization of a well-posed extended Navier-Stokes dynamics for which pressure is determined from current velocity and force fields. The methods use C1 elements for velocity and C0 elements for pressure. A stability estimate is proved for a related finite-element projection method close to classical time-splitting methods of Orszag, Israeli, DeVille and Karniadakis.

We propose a method to map a multiply connected bounded planar region conformally to a bounded region with circular boundaries. The norm of the derivative of such a conformal map satisfies the Laplace equation with a nonlinear Neumann type boundary condition. We analyze the singular behavior at corners of the boundary and separate the major singular part. The remaining smooth part solves a variational problem which is easy to discretize. We use a finite element method and a gradient descent method to find an approximate solution. The conformal map is then constructed from this norm function. We tested our algorithm on a polygonal region and a curvilinear smooth region.

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