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In this paper we study a class of variable coefficient third order partial differential operators on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, containing, as a subclass, some variable coefficient operators of KdV-type in any space dimension. For such a class, as well as for the adjoint class, we obtain a Carleman estimate and the local solvability at any point of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. A discussion of possible applications in the context of dispersive equations is provided.

The aim of this paper is to establish a pseudo-differential Weyl calculus on graded nilpotent Lie groups $G$ which extends the celebrated Weyl calculus on $\mathbb{R}^n$. To reach this goal, we develop a symbolic calculus for a very general class of quantization schemes, following [Doc. Math., 22, 1539--1592, 2017], using the H\"{o}rmander symbol classes $S^m_{\rho, \delta}(G)$ introduced in [Progress in Mathematics, 314. Birkh\"{a}user/Springer, 2016]. We particularly focus on the so-called symmetric calculi, for which quantizing and taking the adjoint commute, among them the Euclidean Weyl calculus, but we also recover the (non-symmetric) Kohn-Nirenberg calculus, on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and on general graded groups [Progress in Mathematics, 314. Birkh\"{a}user/Springer, 2016]. Several interesting applications follow directly from our calculus: expected mapping properties on Sobolev spaces, the existence of one-sided parametrices and the G\r{a}rding inequality for elliptic operators, and a generalization of the Poisson bracket for symmetric quantizations on stratified groups. In the particular case of the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}_n$, we are able to answer the fundamental questions of this paper: which, among all the admissible quantizations, is the natural Weyl quantization on $\mathbb{H}_n$? And which are the criteria that determine it uniquely? The surprisingly simple but compelling answers raise the question whether what is true for $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\mathbb{H}_n$ also extends to general graded groups, which we answer in the affirmative in this paper. Among other things, we discuss and investigate an analogue of the symplectic invariance property of the Weyl quantization in the setting of graded groups, as well as the notion of the Poisson bracket for symbols in the setting of stratified groups, linking it to the symbolic properties of the commutators., Comment: 70 pages, no figures

In this work we give a sufficient condition under which the global Poincar\'{e} inequality on Carnot groups holds true for a large family of probability measures absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. The density of such probability measure is given in terms of homogeneous quasi-norm on the group. We provide examples to which our condition applies including the most known families of Carnot groups. This, in particular, allows to extend the results in the previous work [CFZ21]. A consequence of our result is that the associated Schr\"{o}dinger operators have a spectral gap.

We prove unique continuation properties for linear variable coefficient Schr\"odinger equations with bounded real potentials. Under certain smallness conditions on the leading coefficients, we prove that solutions decaying faster than any cubic exponential rate at two different times must be identically zero. Assuming a transversally anisotropic type condition, we recover the sharp Gaussian (quadratic exponential) rate in the series of works by Escauriaza-Kenig-Ponce-Vega [14, 17, 18].

In this work we establish a subelliptic sharp G\r{a}rding inequality on compact Lie groups for pseudo-differential operators with symbols belonging to global subelliptic H\"ormander classes. In order for the inequality to hold we require the global matrix-valued symbol to satisfy the suitable classical nonnegativity condition in our setting. Our result extends to $\mathscr{S}^m_{\rho,\delta}(G)$-classes, $0\leq \delta<\rho$, the one in [26] about the validity of the sharp G\r{a}rding inequality for the class $\mathscr{S}^m_{1,0}(G)$. We remark that the result we prove here is already new and sharp in the case of the torus.

In this paper a bisingular pseudodifferential calculus, along the lines of the one introduced by L. Rodino in [12], is developed in the global setting of a product of compact Lie groups. The approach follows that introduced by M. Ruzhansky and V. Turunen [13] (see also V. Fischer [5]), in that it exploits the harmonic analysis of the groups involved.

In the first part of the paper we continue the study of solutions to Schr\"odinger equations with a time singularity in the dispersive relation and in the periodic setting. In the second we show that if the Schr\"odinger operator involves a Laplace operator with variable coefficients with a particular dependence on the space variables, then one can prove Strichartz estimates at the same regularity as that needed for constant coefficients. Our work presents a two dimensional analysis, but we expect that with the obvious adjustments similar results are available in higher dimensions.

In this paper, we prove (global) $q$-Poincar\'e inequalities for probability measures on nilpotent Lie groups with filiform Lie algebra of any length. The probability measures under consideration have a density with respect to the Haar measure given as a function of a suitable homogeneous norm., Comment: 29 pages

In this paper we focus on the validity of some fundamental estimates for time-degenerate Schr\"{o}dinger-type operators. On one hand we derive global homogeneous smoothing estimates for operators of any order by means of suitable comparison principles (that we shall obtain here). On the other hand, we prove weighted Strichartz-type estimates for time-degenerate Scrh\"{o}dinger operators and apply them to the local well-posedness of the semilinear Cauchy problem. Most of our results apply to nondegenerate operators as well, recovering, in these cases, the well-known standard results.

In this work we consider an example of a linear time-degenerate Schr\"odinger operator. We show that with the appropriate assumptions the operator satisfies a Kato smoothing effect. We also show that the solutions to the nonlinear initial value problems involving this operator and polynomial derivative nonlinearities are locally well-posed and their solutions also satisfy the same smoothing estimates as the linear solutions.

We study the local solvability of a class of operators with multiple characteristics. The class considered here complements and extends the one studied in [9], in that in this paper we consider some cases of operators with complex coefficients that were not present in [9]. The class of operators considered here ideally encompasses classes of degenerate parabolic and Schr\"odinger type operators. We will give local solvability theorems. In general, one has $L^2$ local solvability, but also cases of local solvability with better Sobolev regularity will be presented.

We will show a local solvability result for a class of degenerate second order linear partial differential operators with a complex subprincipal symbol. Due to the form of the operators in the class the subprincipal symbol is invariantly defined and we shall give sufficient conditions for the local solvability to hold involving the real and the imaginary part of the latter. Under suitable conditions we will prove that the class under consideration is L^2 to L^2 locally solvable.

In this paper we will first present some results about the local solvability property of a class of degenerate second order linear partial differential operators with smooth coefficients. The class under consideration (which in turn is a generalization of the Kannai operator) exhibits a degeneracy due to the interplay between the singularity associated with the characteristic set of a system of vector fields and the vanishing of a function. Afterward we will also discuss some local solvability results for two classes of degenerate second order linear partial differential operators with non-smooth coefficients which are a variation of the main class presented above.