Nemytskii operator

In mathematics, Nemytskii operators are a class of nonlinear operators on Lp spaces with good continuity
and boundedness properties. They take their name from the mathematician Viktor Vladimirovich Nemytskii.

Definition
Let Ω be a domain (an open and connected set) in n-dimensional Euclidean space. A function
f : Ω × Rm → R is said to satisfy the Carathéodory conditions if

f(x, u) is a continuous function of u for almost all x ∈ Ω;

f(x, u) is a measurable function of x for all u ∈ Rm.

Given a function f satisfying the Carathéodory conditions and a function u : Ω → Rm, define a new function
F(u) : Ω → R by

The function F is called a Nemytskii operator.

Boundedness theorem
Let Ω be a domain, let 1 < p < +∞ and let g ∈ Lq(Ω; R), with

Suppose that f satisfies the Carathéodory conditions and that, for some constant C and all x and u,

Then the Nemytskii operator F as defined above is a bounded and continuous map from Lp(Ω; Rm) into
Lq(Ω; R).

References
Renardy, Michael & Rogers, Robert C. (2004). An introduction to partial differential equations.
Texts in Applied Mathematics 13 (Second ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 370. ISBN 0-
387-00444-0. (Section 10.3.4)

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