Functional characterizations of trace spaces in Lipschitz domains

Abstract: Using a factorization theorem of Douglas, we prove functional characterizations of trace spaces $H^s(\partial \Omega)$ involving a family of positive self-adjoint operators. Our method is based on the use of a suitable operator by taking the trace on the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$ and applying Moore--Penrose pseudo-inverse properties together with a special inner product on $H^1(\Omega)$. Moreover, generalized results of the Moore--Penrose pseudo-inverse are also established.