Luca Capogna

 

Research Interests

·  Partial Differential Equations

·  Harmonic Analysis

·  Geometric Analysis


Most of my work is in the area of PDE's and applications to geometry. Please, see my CV for more details.

Curriculum Vitae (click to download the pdf file)

Students

·  Erin Haller, Heather Griffin-Rowe, Garrett Rea  (current)

·  Emily Shores (PhD 2005)

·  Thomas French (current, Undergraduate Honors thesis, 2009)

·  April Gentry (Undergraduate honor thesis advisor, 2005)

·  Diana Dunn (Undergraduate honor thesis advisor, 2004)

Books

 

 "Harmonic measure from a geometric and an analytic point of view", with C. Kenig and L. Lanzani, University Lectures Series 35, 2005, ISBN 0-8218-2728-6.

 

 "An introduction to the Heisenberg Group and to the sub-Riemannian Isoperimetric problem", with D. Danielli, S. Pauls and J. Tyson. Birkhäuser , "Progress in Mathematics". 2007, Approx. 230 p., Hardcover, ISBN-10: 3-7643-8132-9

ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-8132-5



Current Projects.

 

·  "Regularity of  intrinsic minimal graphs  and  intrinsic graphs evolving by horizontal mean curvature in Heisenberg groups”. (with G. Citti and M. Manfredini)

 

·  "A geometric function theory approach to the boundary regularity of bi-holomorphisms. (with M. Cowling and L. Lanzani.)

 

·  "Mean Curvature Flow in the Heisenberg group and applications", (with M. Bonk).

 

·  "Generalized mean curvature flow in Carnot groups",  (with G. Citti )

 

Preprints and Publications

·  " Smoothness  of Lipschitz intrinsic minimal graphs in the Heisenberg group H^n, n>1."  ,   submitted (with Giovanna Citti and Maria Manfredini).

 

·  " Isoperimetric inequalities in the Heisenberg group and in the plane."  ,  Lecture Notes of “Seminario Interdisciplinare di Matematica”, Vol. 6 (2007), 93-106

 

·  "On the Mixed boundary value problem for Laplace's operator on Lipschitz planar domains."  To appear in Math. Annalen,  (with R. Brown and L. Lanzani)

 

·  "Ill-posedness of the Cauchy problem for Heisenberg Wave maps"  To appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.  (with J. Shatah)

 

·  "Convexity and horizontal second fundamental forms for hypersurfaces in Carnot groups'' ,  to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.  (with S. D. Pauls and J. Tyson)

 

 

·  "A note on the engulfing property and the $\Gamma^{1+ \alpha}$-regularity of convex functions in Carnot Groups",  Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006) 3191-3199. (with D. Maldonado)

 

·  "The Aronsson-Euler equation for absolutely minimizing lipschitz extensions in Carnot-Caratheodory spaces."  Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), no. 2, 795--823. (with Thomas Bieske).

 

·  "$1-$Quasiconformal maps in Carnot groups" Duke Math. Journal Vol. 135, No. 3 (2006) (with Michael Cowling).

 

·  "Ahlfors type estimates for the perimeter measure in Carnot-Caratheodory spaces".  Journal of Geometric Analysis, Vol. 16 (3)  (2006)  455-497 . (with Nicola Garofalo).

 

·  Pointwise Schauder estimates for subelliptic operators in Carnot groups , Proceedings for the AMS-SIAM Harmonic Analysis conference in Mt. Holyhoke, 2001. (with Qing Han).

 

·  "Examples of Uniform and NTA domains in Carnot groups. " , Proceedings on Analysis and Geometry (Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, 1999) (Russian), 103--121, Izdat. Ross. Akad. Nauk Sib. Otd. Inst. Mat., Novosibirsk, 2000. (with D.M. Nhieu and N. Garofalo).

 

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·  "Properties of harmonic measures in the Dirichlet problem for nilpotent Lie groups of Heisenberg type" , American Journal of Mathematics 124, vol 2, 273--306. (2002) (with D.M. Nhieu and N. Garofalo).

 

·  "The Dirichlet problem for sub-Laplacians" , unpublished paper (2001) (with D. M. Nhieu and N. Garofalo).

 

·  A version of a theorem of Dahlberg for the subelliptic Dirichlet problem. Math. Res. Lett. 5 (1998), no. 4, 541--549 (DM Nhieu and N. Garofalo).

 

·  Legendrian energy minimizers. ,
(with Fang-Hua Lin) Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 12 (2001), no. 2, 145--171.

 

·  Regularity for quasilinear equations and $1-$quasiconformal maps in Carnot groups,
Math. Annalen 313 (1999), no. 2, 263--295.

 

·  "Regularity of minimizers of the calculus of variations in Carnot groups via hypoellipticity of systems of H\"ormander type " ,
Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2 (2003). (with N. Garofalo).

 

·  " Boundary behavior of nonnegative solutions of subelliptic equations in NTA domains for Carnot-Carathéodory metrics.", ,
, J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 4 (1998), no. 4-5, 403--432. (with N. Garofalo).

 

·  Regularity for quasilinear equations in the Heisenberg group,
Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics vol. L, (1997), pages 867--889.

 

·  Capacitary estimates and the local behavior of solutions of nonlinear subelliptic equations,
American Journal of Mathematics, vol. 118, no. 6 (1996), pages 1153-1196 (with D. Danielli and N. Garofalo).

 

·  Uniform domains and quasiconformal mappings on the Heisenberg group ,
Man. Math., 86 (1995), pages 267-281 (with P. Tang).

 

·  Subelliptic mollifiers and a basic pointwise estimate of Poincar\'e type,
Math. Z. (1997) (with D. Danielli and N. Garofalo).

 

·  The geometric Sobolev embedding for vector fields and the isoperimetric inequality,
Comm. in Analysis and Geometry 2(2) (1994), pages 203--215 (with D. Danielli and N. Garofalo).

 

·  Subelliptic mollifiers and a characterization of Rellich and Poincar\'e domains,
Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino, 51 (4) (1993) pages 361-386 (with D. Danielli and N. Garofalo).

 

·  An embedding theorem and the Harnack inequality for nonlinear subelliptic equations,
Comm. Partial Diff. Eq., 18 (1993), pages 1765-1794 (with D. Danielli and N. Garofalo).