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Equivalence between distributional and viscosity solutions for the double-phase equation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-05-05 v1

Abstract

We investigate the different notions of solutions to the double-phase equation \dive(Dup2Du+a(x)Duq2Du)=0, -\dive(|Du|^{p-2}Du+a(x)|Du|^{q-2}Du)=0, which is characterized by the fact that both ellipticity and growth switch between two different types of polynomial according to the position. We introduce the AH()\mathcal{A}_{H(\cdot)}-harmonic functions of nonlinear potential theory, and then show that AH()\mathcal{A}_{H(\cdot)}-harmonic functions coincide with the distributional and viscosity solutions, respectively. This implies that the distributional and viscosity solutions are exactly the same.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.01248,
  title  = {Equivalence between distributional and viscosity solutions for the double-phase equation},
  author = {Yuzhou Fang and Chao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01248},
  year   = {2020}
}
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