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Continuous solutions for divergence-type equations associated to elliptic systems of complex vector fields

Analysis of PDEs 2017-01-12 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we characterize all the distributions FD(U)F \in \mathcal{D}'(U) such that there exists a continuous weak solution vC(U,Cn)v \in C(U,\mathbb{C}^{n}) (with UΩU \subset \Omega) to the divergence-type equation L1v1+...+Lnvn=F,L_{1}^{*}v_{1}+...+L_{n}^{*}v_{n}=F, where {L1,,Ln}\left\{L_{1},\dots,L_{n}\right\} is an elliptic system of linearly independent vector fields with smooth complex coefficients defined on ΩRN\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}. In case where (L1,,Ln)(L_1,\dots, L_n) is the usual gradient field on RN\mathbb{R}^N, we recover the classical result for the divergence equation proved by T. De Pauw and W. Pfeffer.

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@article{arxiv.1701.02889,
  title  = {Continuous solutions for divergence-type equations associated to elliptic systems of complex vector fields},
  author = {Laurent Moonens and Tiago Picon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02889},
  year   = {2017}
}
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