In this paper, we prove maximal $L^p$-regularity for a system of parabolic PDEs, where the elliptic operator $A$ has coefficients which depend on time in a measurable way and are continuous in the space variable. The proof is based on operator-theoretic methods and one of the main ingredients in the proof is the construction of an evolution family on weighted $L^q$-spaces.

Let $(X, d, \mu)$ be a space of homogeneous type equipped with a distance $d$ and a measure $\mu$. Assume that $L$ is a closed linear operator which generates an analytic semigroup $e^{-tL}, t > 0$. Also assume that $L$ has a bounded $H_\infty$-calculus on $L^2(X)$ and satisfies the $L^p-L^q$ semigroup estimates (which is weaker than the pointwise Gaussian or Poisson heat kernel bounds). The aim of this paper is to establish a theory of inhomogeneous Besov spaces associated to such an operator $L$. We prove the molecular decompositions for the new Besov spaces and obtain the boundedness of the fractional powers $(I+L)^{-\gamma}, \gamma > 0$ on these Besov spaces. Finally, we carry out a comparison between our new Besov spaces and the classical Besov spaces.

In this paper, we prove the existence of controls insensitizing the $L^2$-norm of the solution of the Boussinesq system. The novelty here is that no control is used on the temperature equation. Furthermore, the control acting on the fluid equation can be chosen to have one vanishing component. It is well known that the insensitizing control problem is equivalent to a null controllability result for a cascade system, which is obtained thanks to a suitable Carleman estimate for the adjoint of the linearized system and an inverse mapping theorem. The particular form of the adjoint equation will allow us to obtain the null controllability of the linearized system.

We study the Dirichlet problem for stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equations $$ \begin{cases} H(x, u(x), \nabla u(x)) = 0 & \ \textrm{in} \ \Omega \\ u(x)=\varphi(x) & \ \textrm{on} \ \partial \Omega. \end{cases} $$ We consider a Caratheodory hamiltonian $H=H(x,u,p)$, with a Sobolev-type (but not continuous) regularity with respect to the space variable $x$, and prove existence and uniqueness of a Lipschitz continuous maximal generalized solution which, in the continuous case, turns out to be the classical viscosity solution. In addition, we prove a continuous dependence property of the solution with respect to the boundary datum $\varphi$, completing in such a way a well posedness theory.