Burenkov Viktor
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics

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1958-1968

Student, post-graduate student, assistant of the Department of Higher Mathematics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

1968-1981

Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of Moscow Technological University (MIREA).

1981-1994

Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of the Theory of Differential Equations and Functional Analysis of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.

1982

Doctoral thesis on “The Study of spaces of differentiable functions with an irregular domain of definition" was presented.

1991

Medal of the Academic Council of PFUR was awarded.

1994-2006

Full Professor of the Cardiff School of Mathematics, Cardiff University (Cardiff, UK).

1997

Member of the international society for mathematical analysis “International Society for Analysis, Applications” (ISAAC). 

2003-2013

Vice-President of the society for mathematical analysis “International Society for Analysis, Applications” (ISAAC). 

2006

Title of honorary Professor of L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University (Astana, Kazakhstan).

2006-2011

Full professor of the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Padova University (Padua, Italy).

2007

Title of honorary Doctor of Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan, Armenia) was awarded.

2010

Honorary award Deshbandhu College University of Delhi (University of Delhi, New Delhi, India).

2011

Organizer of the VIII Congress of ISAAC held at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (400 participants from 30 countries).

2011

Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia was awarded.

2011

Medal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan was awarded.

2011-2014

Professor of the Department of Mathematics, L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University (Astana, Kazakhstan).

2013

Title of honorary worker of the University of Padova (Padova University, Padova, Italy) was awarded.

2014- present time

Professor of the international level of RUDN University, freelance researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS.

2015

Title Honorary distinguished professor of the Cardiff School of Mathematics, Cardiff University was awarded.

2015-2018

Head of Department of Mathematical Analysis and Function Theory of RUDN University.

2017-2018

The first Director of S.M. Nikol’skii Mathematical Institute, RUDN University.

2018- present time

Professor of S.M. Nikol’skii Mathematical Institute, RUDN University.

Teaching

  1. Burenkov V. I. reads courses at RUDN University:
    • “Functional analysis” (direction “Mathematics”, bachelor course, in English);
    • “Theory of Functional Spaces” (direction “Mathematics”, master course, in English).
  2. Burenkov V. I. developed the course “Basic ideas of Sobolev spaces theory”. The course was read at the universities of Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, the USA, Ethiopia and Japan. His monograph (Burenkov V. I. Sobolev spaces on domains, B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig, 312 pp (1998)) has become a popular text for specialists in the theory of function spaces and for a wide range of mathematicians interested in the application of the theory of Sobolev spaces.
  3. Burenkov V.I. published a number of textbooks, the most significant are the following:
    • Burenkov V.I. Function spaces. Lp - spaces, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (1987), 80 pp (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I., Function spaces. Solutions of the problems in the sections: Normed, seminormed, quasinormed spaces. Spaces of differentiable functions. Basic information about the Lebesgue integral", Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (1988), 60 pp (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I., Goldman M.L. Function spaces. Solutions of the problems in the sections: The spaces Lp (0 < p < 1) and L1. Holder’s inequality. Minkowski's inequality. Convergence in L1. Completeness of the spaces Lp. Classification of the spaces Lp", Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (1989), 52 pp (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I. Function spaces. Main integral inequalities related to Lp - spaces, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (1989), 96 pp. (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I. Function spaces. Sobolev spaces. Part 1, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (1991), 89 pp (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I., Goldman M.L. Function spaces. Solutions of the problems in the sections: Generalised Minkowski's inequalities. Hardy's inequalities", Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (1990), 76 pp (Russian).
    • Burenkov V.I., Goldman M.L. Function spaces. Solutions of the problems in the sections: Young's inequality for convolutions. Distribution functions, rearrangements. Interpolation theorems", Peoples' Friendship of University of Russia, Moscow, (1992), 72 pp (Russian).
  4. 1955-1968 Burenkov V.I. conducted practical classes in Mathematical Analysis and Linear Algebra, read special courses on Functional Analysis for students of “Mathematics” specialty of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
  5. 1968-1981 Burenkov V.I. delivered lectures on various branches of Higher Mathematics (Linear Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Probability Theory) and Functional Analysis to students of “Applied Mathematics” and “Radiophysics” specialties of Moscow Technological University (MIREA).
  6. 1981-1994 Burenkov V.I. delivered lectures on Mathematical Analysis, Theory of Functions, Complex Analysis, Integral Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Theory of Generalized Functions, Sobolev spaces to students of “Mathematics”, “Applied mathematics” directions of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
  7. 1994-2006 Burenkov V.I. delivered lectures on Theory of Functions, Functional Analysis, Differential Equations, Theory of Function Spaces to students of “Mathematics” of Cardiff University (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK).
  8. 2006-2011 Burenkov V.I. delivered lectures on Mathematical Analysis, Function Theory, Functional Analysis, Spectral Theory of Differential Operators (partly - in Italian, partly - in English) to students of “Mathematics” direction of the University of Padova (Padova, Padova, Italy).
  9. 2001-2014 Burenkov V.I. delivered lectures on Theory of Functions, Functional Analysis and Theory of Function Spaces (in English) to students of “Mathematics” direction of L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University.
  10. Under the supervision of Victor Ivanovich Burenkov more than 25 post-graduate students of RUDN University defended their theses.

Science

  • Burenkov V.I developed a number of original approaches and methods. His method of averaging operators with variable step and shift allowed to obtain fundamental results in the approximation of functions belonging to common functional spaces, infinitely differentiable functions, in particular, with preservation of boundary values, and especially in the problem of continuation of functions from Sobolev spaces. Constructed with this method, the operator of continuation of functions from Sobolev spaces with preservation or minimal deterioration of differential properties is mentioned as Burenkov continuation operator. With its help, Victor Ivanovich Burenkov and Alexander Lvovich Gorbunov obtained exact estimates over the order of smoothness for the minimal norm of the operator of extension. His article on the superposition of absolutely continuous functions was presented in the Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences by Andrey Kolmogorov and the result obtained in it is cited as Burenkov theorem.
  • Burenkov V.I developed a method of fractional differentiation of a priori inequalities, which allowed to obtain the necessary and sufficient terms for the conditional hypoellipticity of differential operators with partial derivatives with constant coefficients. Then this direction was developed by a group of researchers from Yerevan headed by Hayk Gegamovich Ghazaryan. In their works, the foregoing result is given as Burenkov theorem on conditional hypoellipticity, and this type of hypoellipticity is called hypoellipticity by Burenkov.
  • Burenkov V.I. made a great contribution to the branches of mathematics related to mathematical analysis and differential equations. Professor Burenkov is an acknowledged world expert in the theory of functional spaces, especially Sobolev spaces and spaces with fractional order of smoothness, and its applications. He carried out important researches on the theory of partial differential equations and integral equations, in particular, on the theory of hypoelliptic equations, spectral theory of differential operators and the theory of incorrect problems.
  • Professor Burenkov V.I. is the founder of the research of a new case of a finite interval. The work on inequalities for intermediate derivatives with exact constants gave an impetus to a new direction. Exact constants were also found in some inequalities of different metrics, Markov-type inequalities for polynomials, and, together with Vladimir Anatolyevich Gusakov, in some embedding theorems for Sobolev spaces. Exact constants in some Hardy-type inequalities were obtained together with Swedish mathematicians J. Bergh and Lars-Erik Persson.
  • New types of theorems on multipliers of Fourier integrals for weighted Lebesgue spaces with exponential weights were proved and applications to partial differential equations were analyzed.
  • A nonlinear continuation operator was constructed for the limit case of the theorem of traces for the anisotropic Nikol’skii-Besov spaces, and it was proved that in this case the linear continuation operator does not exist. Professor Burenkov V.I.  together with Professor Mikhail Lvovich Goldman studied the interaction between norms of a wide class of operators in general normalized functional spaces and norms in their periodic analogues. These results allow to transfer many of the statements proved for the non-periodic case to the periodic case and, on the contrary, from the periodic case to the non-periodic case.
  • New flexible methods for constructing regularized approximate solutions of integral convolution equations related to geophysical problems were developed. The use of spaces with small fractional smoothness is the basis. These methods became more effective than traditional approaches based on the use of Sobolev spaces.
  • Burenkov V.I.  collaborated with Professor Evans (William Desmond Evans) from the School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, the UK, that led to the publication of works on weight integral inequalities and frequently cited work on quantum mechanics: V. I. Burenkov, V. D. Evans, “On the estimate of the norm of an integral operator associated with the stability of one-electron atoms”, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 128:5 (1998), 993–1005.
  • Burenkov V.I.  is an expert in operator theory in general Morrie-type spaces:
  • Necessary and sufficient terms for functional parameters for a wide range of numerical parameters that provide the boundedness of many classical real analysis operators (maximal operator, fractional maximal operator, Riesz potential, hardy operator, true singular integrals, Hausdorff operators) from one common local Morrie-type space to another were obtained. In the case of the maximum operator and fractional maximum operator, Burenkov V.I.  conducted a joint study was Vagif Sabirovich Guliyev, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (Baku, Azerbaijan).
  • Burenkov V.I.  found out that the local Morrey-type spaces, in contrast to the global, are convenient for the purposes of interpolation. It was proved that the scale of the local Morrey-type spaces is closed over the real interpolation method. The study was conducted together with Erlan Dautbekovic Nursultanov, - Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor (Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of L. N. Gumilev Eurasian national University, Astana, Kazakhstan).
  • Burenkov V.I.  obtained an analogue of the Young’s inequality for convolutions of functions for global Morrey-type spaces, which has a form different from the form of the classical Young’s inequality for Lebesgue spaces, and it can be used in various applications. The results were published in collaboration with Tamara Vasilievna Tararykova, a researcher at the School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, (Cardiff University, Cardiff, the UK).
  • Burenkov V.I.  is an expert in obtaining accurate spectral stability estimates for eigenvalues of self-adjoint elliptic differential operators:
  • Burenkov V.I.  was the first to publish the work on the spectral stability of the Laplace operator with homogeneous boundary Neumann terms in collaboration with the President of the London Mathematical Society Edward Davis (Edward Brian Davies) - Professor of Mathematics, King's College London (King's College London, KCL - London, UK).
  • Burenkov V.I.  developed the method of transition operators - together with the Italian mathematician Pier Domenico Lamberti - Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics, the University of Padova (Padova, Italy). The method made it possible to obtain exact changes in the eigenvalues under perturbation of the domain of definition through effective geometric characteristics of the proximity of the initial and perturbed domains of definition for elliptic operators of arbitrary even order given on open sets allowing arbitrarily strong degeneration both for the case of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary terms and for Neumann terms. These results are cited as Burenkov - Lamberti theorems.
  • Burenkov V.I. analyzed the case of the third boundary value problem (the Robin problem) together with the Italian mathematician Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis, Professor Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics, the University of Padova (Padova, Italy).
  • Burenkov V.I. applied conformal mapping to the spectral stability problem for the two-dimensional Laplacian operator. The study was conducted together with Vladimir Goldstein and Alexander Uchlov, professors of the Faculty of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BGU (Negev, Israel).
  • Results on stability of singular values of non-self-adjoint elliptic operators were obtained in the joint study with Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor Muharbi Otelbaevich Otelbaev, actual member of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Professor of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University. The results have applications to the general theory of partial differential equations and numerical methods related to the computation of eigenvalues.
  • Obtaining accurate spectral stability estimates for eigenfunctions within domain perturbation is under study. Some results in this direction were obtained by V. I. Burenkov together with Gerasimos Barbatis, Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (the national and Kapodistrian University of Athens, NKUA, (Athens, Greece), Professor Lamberti (P. D. Lamberti, Department of Mathematics, the University of Padova, Italy) and Ermal Feleqi, Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics, the University of Vlorë “Ismail Qemali”, (Vlorë, Albania).
  • More than 180 articles were published. More than 100 plenary presentations at conferences and at the invitation of universities in 30 countries were made.
  • Burenkov V.I. is one of the founders and an editor-in-chief of the international journal “Eurasian Mathematical Journal” (together with academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichy and academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan Mukhtarbay Otelbaevich Otelbaev).

Scientific interests

  • The theory of functions and functional analysis (Sobolev spaces, Nikol'skii-Besov spaces, total of Morrey-type spaces, interpolation theory).
  • Differential equations with partial derivatives (hypoellipticity equations, spectral stability).
  • Integral equations (incorrect, problems).
  • Applications to geophysics, quantum mechanics, numerical methods, radar theory, acoustics.
The norm of an integral operator occurring in the partial wave decomposition of an operator B introduced by Brown and Ravenhall in a model for relativistic one-electron atoms is determined. The result implies that B is non-negative and has no eigenvalue at 0 when the nuclear charge does not exceed a specified critical value.
We prove the equivalence of Hardy- and Sobolev-type inequalities, certain uniform bounds on the heat kernel and some spectral regularity properties of the Neumann Laplacian associated with an arbitrary region of finite measure in Euclidean space. We also prove that if one perturbs the boundary of the region within a uniform Hölder category, then the eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian change by a small and explicitly estimated amount.
The problem of boundedness of the Hardy–Littewood maximal operator in local and global Morrey-type spaces is reduced to the problem of boundedness of the Hardy operator in weighted Lp-spaces on the cone of non-negative non-increasing functions. This allows obtaining sufficient conditions for boundedness for all admissible values of the parameters. Moreover, in case of local Morrey-type spaces, for some values of the parameters, these sufficient conditions are also necessary.
We consider the Robin Laplacian in two bounded regions Ω1 and Ω2 with Lipschitz boundaries and such that Ω2 ⊂ Ω1, and we obtain two-sided estimates for the eigenvalues of the Robin Laplacian in Ω2 via the eigenvalues of the Robin Laplacian in Ω1. Our estimates depend on the measure of the set difference Ω1\Ω2 and on suitably defined characteristics of vicinity of the boundaries of Ω1 and of Ω2, and of the functions defined on those boundaries that enter the Robin boundary conditions.
The problem of boundedness of the Riesz potential in local Morrey-type spaces is reduced to the problem of boundedness of the Hardy operator in weighted Lp-spaces on the cone of non-negative non-increasing functions. This allows obtaining sharp sufficient conditions for boundedness for all admissible values.
We prove sharp stability estimates for the variation of the eigenvalues of non-negative self-adjoint elliptic operators of arbitrary even order upon variation of the open sets on which they are defined. These estimates are expressed in terms of the Lebesgue measure of the symmetric difference of the open sets. Both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are considered.
The survey is aimed at providing detailed information about recent results in the problem of the boundedness in general Morrey-type spaces of various important operators of real analysis, namely of the maximal operator, fractional maximal operator, Riesz potential, singular integral operator, Hardy operator. The main focus is on the results which contain, for a certain range of the numerical parameters, necessary and sufficient conditions on the functional parameters characterizing general Morrey-type spaces, ensuring the boundedness of the aforementioned operators from one general Morrey-type space to another one. The major part of the survey is dedicated to the results obtained by the author jointly with his co-authores A. Gogatishvili, M.L. Goldman, D.K. Darbayeva, H.V. Guliyev, V.S. Guliyev, P. Jain, R. Mustafaev, E.D. Nursultanov, R. Oinarov, A. Serbetci, T.V. Tararykova. In Part I of the survey under discussion were the definition and basic properties of the local and global general Morrey-type spaces, embedding theorems, and the boundedness properties of the maximal operator. Part II of the survey contains discussion of boundedness properties of the fractional maximal operator, Riesz potential, singular integral operator, Hardy operator.
The real interpolation method is considered and it is proved that for general local Morrey-type spaces, in the case in which they have the same integrability parameter, the interpolation spaces are again general local Morrey-type spaces with appropriately chosen parameters. This result is a particular case of the interpolation theorem for much more general spaces defined with the help of an operator acting from some function space to the cone of nonnegative nondecreasing functions on (0, ∞). It is also shown how the classical interpolation theorems due to Stein-Weiss, Peetre, Calderón, Gilbert, Lizorkin, Freitag and some of their new variants can be derived from this theorem.
We study the eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet Laplacian in bounded simply connected plane domains by reducing it, using conformal transformations, to the weighted eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet Laplacian in the unit disc. This allows us to estimate the variation of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian upon domain perturbation via energy type integrals for a large class of “conformal regular” domains which includes all quasidiscs, i.e. images of the unit disc under quasiconformal homeomorphisms of the plane onto itself. Boundaries of such domains can have any Hausdorff dimension between one and two.
An analog of the classical Young’s inequality for convolutions of functions is proved in the case of general global Morrey-type spaces. The form of this analog is different from Young’s inequality for convolutions in the case of Lebesgue spaces. A separate analysis is performed for the case of periodic functions.
In this work, we give an extension of Hardy-type inequalities with sharp costants for 0 < p < 1 for general weight functions, prove the existence of extremal functions and write them out explicitly.
We study the eigenvalue problem for the Neumann-–Laplace operator in conformal regular planar domains. Conformal regular domains support the Poincaré-–Sobolev inequality and this allows us to estimate the variation of the eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian upon domain perturbation via energy type integrals. Boundaries of such domains can have any Hausdorff dimension between one and two.
Bokayev N.A., Burenkov V.I., Matin D.T. On precompactness of a set in general local and global Morrey-type spaces // Eurasian Math. J., Vol. 8, No. 3, 2017, pp. 109–115.
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the precompactness of a set in general local Morrey-type spaces and sufficient conditions for the precompactness of a set in general global Morrey-type spaces are obtained.
Burenkov V.I., Liflyand E. On the boundedness of Hausdorff operators on Morrey-type spaces // Eurasian Math. J., Vol. 8, No. 2, 2017, pp. 97–104.
We give conditions ensuring the boundedness of Hausdorff operators on Morrey-type spaces. Sharpness of the obtained results is studied, and classes of the Hausdorff operators are described for which the necessary and sufficient conditions coincide.
Burenkov V.I., Chigambayeva D.K., Nursultanov E.D. Marcinkiewicz-type interpolation theorem and estimates for convolutions for Morrey-type spaces // Eurasian Math. J., Vol. 9, No. 2, 2018, pp. 82–88.
We introduce a class of Morrey-type spaces which includes the classical Morrey spaces. We discuss their properties and we prove a Marcinkiewicz-type interpolation theorem. This theorem is then applied to obtaining a Young–O'Neil-type inequality for the convolution operator in Morrey-type spaces.
In this note, the Morrey spaces and the Sobolev–Morrey spaces are considered. In particular, the K-functional with respect to these spaces is estimated from above and below. As an application, we characterize the Nikol'skii–Besov–Morrey spaces via real interpolation.
We prove estimates for the variation of the eigenvalues for a pair of self-adjoint elliptic differential operators in the case of diffeomorphic open sets.
In this paper, we present new interpolation theorems for nonlinear Urysohn integral operators. In particular, interpolation theorems of Marcinkiewicz–Calderon type and Stein–Weiss–Peetre type are obtained.
We introduce a class of Morrey-type spaces Mλp,q,Ω, which includes the classical Morrey spaces and discuss their properties. We prove a Marcinkiewicz-type interpolation theorem for such spaces. This theorem is then applied to obtaining an analogue of O'Neil's inequality for convolutions and to proving the boundedness in the introduced Morrey-type spaces of the Riesz potential and singular integral operators.
We generalize the results obtained in [4] on the boundedness of the Riesz potential from one general local Morrey-type space to another one to the case of the generalized Riesz potential.
In this paper, we introduce a new version of the definition of a quasi-norm (in particular, a norm) in Lebesgue spaces with variable order of summability. Using it, we prove an analogue of Hölder's inequality for such spaces, which is more general and more precise than those known earlier.
We consider two popular function spaces: the Morrey spaces and the Nikol'skii spaces and investigate the relationship between them in the one-dimensional case. In particular, we prove that, under the appropriate assumptions on the numerical parameters, their restrictions to the class of functions f of the form f(x)=g(|x|), where g is a non-negative non-increasing function on [0,∞), coincide.
We prove new interpolation theorems for a sufficiently wide class of nonlinear operators in Morrey-type spaces. In particular, these theorems apply to Urysohn integral operators. We also obtain analogs of the Marcinkiewicz–Calderón and Stein–Weiss–Peetre interpolation theorems and establish a criterion of (p,q) quasiweak boundedness of the Urysohn operator.
A detailed exposition of Bernstein's inequality, inequalities of different metrics and of different dimensions for entire functions of exponential type in Lebesgue spaces is given in the book of S.M. Nikol'skii [8]. In this paper, we state analogues of these inequalities in the Morrey spaces.