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Internal Schauder estimates for H\"ormander type equations with Dini continuous source

Analysis of PDEs 2023-06-12 v2

Abstract

We study the regularity properties of a general second order H\"ormander operator with Dini continous coefficients aija_{ij}. Precisely if X0,X1,XmX_0, X_1,\cdots X_m are smooth self adjoint vector fields satisfying the H\"ormander condition, we consider the linear operator in RN\mathbb{R}^{N}, with N>m+1N>m+1: \begin{equation*} \mathcal{L} u := \sum_{i, j= 1}^{m} a_{ij} X_{i}X_{j} u - X_0 u. \end{equation*} The vector field X0X_0 plays a role similar to the time derivative in a parabolic problem so that it is a vector of degree two. We prove that, if ff is a Dini continuous function, then the second order derivatives of the solution uu to the equation Lu=f\mathcal{L} u = f are Dini continuous functions as well. A key step in our proof is a Taylor formula in this anisotropic setting, that we establish under minimal regularity assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2306.02799,
  title  = {Internal Schauder estimates for H\"ormander type equations with Dini continuous source},
  author = {Giovanna Citti and Bianca Stroffolini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02799},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2102.10381

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