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Expansion of Green's function and regularity of Robin's function for elliptic operators in divergence form

Analysis of PDEs 2024-01-23 v1

Abstract

We consider Green's function GK G_K of the elliptic operator in divergence form LK=div(K(x)) \mathcal{L}_K=-\text{div}(K(x)\nabla ) on a bounded smooth domain ΩRn(n2) \Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n (n\geq 2) with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where K K is a smooth positively definite matrix-valued function on Ω \Omega . We obtain a high-order asymptotic expansion of GK(x,y) G_K(x, y) , which defines uniquely a regular part HK(x,y) H_K(x, y) . Moreover, we prove that the associated Robin's function RK(x)=HK(x,x) R_K(x) = H_K(x, x) is smooth in Ω \Omega , despite the regular part HKC1(Ω×Ω) H_K\notin C^1(\Omega\times\Omega) in general.

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@article{arxiv.2401.11486,
  title  = {Expansion of Green's function and regularity of Robin's function for elliptic operators in divergence form},
  author = {Daomin Cao and Jie Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11486},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages