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Green's function for elliptic systems: existence and Delmotte-Deuschel bounds

Analysis of PDEs 2016-06-03 v2

Abstract

We prove that for an open domain DRdD \subset \mathbb{R}^d with d2d \geq 2 , for every (measurable) uniformly elliptic tensor field aa and for almost every point yDy \in D , there exists a unique Green's function centred in y y associated to the vectorial operator a -\nabla \cdot a\nabla in D. In particular, when d>2d > 2 this result also implies the existence of the fundamental solution for elliptic systems, i.e. the Green function for a -\nabla \cdot a\nabla in Rd \mathbb{R}^d . Moreover, introducing an ensemble \langle\cdot \rangle over the set of uniformly elliptic tensor fields, under the assumption of stationarity we infer for the fundamental solution GG some pointwise bounds for G(;x,y)\langle |G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle, xG(;x,y)\langle|\nabla_x G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle and xyG(;x,y)\langle |\nabla_x\nabla_y G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle. These estimates scale optimally in space and provide a generalization to systems of the bounds obtained by Delmotte and Deuschel for the scalar case.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05625,
  title  = {Green's function for elliptic systems: existence and Delmotte-Deuschel bounds},
  author = {Joseph G. Conlon and Arianna Giunti and Felix Otto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05625},
  year   = {2016}
}

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47 pages, new version with a new introduction

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