Interpolation spaces of generalized smoothness and their applications to elliptic equations

Abstract

We introduce and investigate classes of normed or quasinormed distribution spaces of generalized smoothness that can be obtained by various interpolation methods applied to classical Sobolev, Nikolskii-Besov, and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. An arbitrary positive function O-regularly varying at infinity serves as the order of regularity for the spaces introduced. They are broad generalizations of the above classical spaces and allow being well defined on smooth manifolds. We give applications of the spaces under investigation to elliptic equations and elliptic problems on smooth manifolds.