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An extension of H\"{o}rmander's hypoellipticity theorem

Analysis of PDEs 2013-12-13 v1 Probability

Abstract

Motivated by applications to stochastic differential equations, an extension of H\"{o}rmander's hypoellipticity theorem is proved for second-order degenerate elliptic operators with non-smooth coefficients. The main results are established using point-wise Bessel kernel estimates and a weighted Sobolev inequality of Stein and Weiss. Of particular interest is that our results apply to operators with quite general first-order terms.

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@article{arxiv.1312.3557,
  title  = {An extension of H\"{o}rmander's hypoellipticity theorem},
  author = {David P. Herzog and Nathan Totz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3557},
  year   = {2013}
}

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