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Boundary rectifiability and elliptic operators with $W^{1,1}$ coefficients

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-25 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We consider second order divergence form elliptic operators with W1,1W^{1,1} coefficients, in a uniform domain Ω\Omega with Ahlfors regular boundary. We show that the AA_\infty property of the elliptic measure associated to any such operator implies that Ω\Omega is a set of locally finite perimeter whose boundary, Ω\partial\Omega, is rectifiable. As a corollary we show that for this type of operators, absolute continuity of the surface measure with respect to the elliptic measure is enough to guarantee rectifiability of the boundary. In the case that the coefficients are continuous we obtain additional information about Ω\Omega.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00539,
  title  = {Boundary rectifiability and elliptic operators with $W^{1,1}$ coefficients},
  author = {Tatiana Toro and Zihui Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00539},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

minor changes as suggested by the referee, to appear in Adv. Calc. Var

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