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KFP operators with coefficients measurable in time and Dini continuous in space

Analysis of PDEs 2023-10-31 v2

Abstract

We consider degenerate KFP operators Lu=i,j=1m0aij(x,t)xixj2u+k,j=1Nbjkxkxjutui,j=1m0aij(x,t)xixj2u+Yu Lu=\sum_{i,j=1}^{m_{0}}a_{ij}(x,t)\partial_{x_{i}x_{j}}^{2}u+\sum_{k,j=1}^{N}b_{jk}x_{k}\partial_{x_{j}}u-\partial_{t}u\equiv\sum_{i,j=1}^{m_{0}}a_{ij}(x,t)\partial_{x_{i}x_{j}}^{2}u+Yu ((x,t)RN+1(x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^{N+1}, 1m0N1\leq m_{0}\leq N) s.t. the model operator having constant aija_{ij} is hypoelliptic, translation invariant w.r.t. a Lie group in RN+1\mathbb{R}^{N+1} and 22-homogeneous w.r.t. a family of dilations; (aij)i,j=1m0(a_{ij})_{i,j=1}^{m_{0}} is symmetric and uniformly positive on Rm0\mathbb{R}^{m_{0}}; aija_{ij} are bounded and Dini continuous in space, bounded measurable in time, i.e.: setting ST=RN×(,T), S_{T}=\mathbb{R}^{N}\times\left( -\infty,T\right) , ωf,ST(r)=sup(x,t),(y,t)STxyrf(x,t)f(y,t) \omega_{f,S_{T}}(r)=\sup_{\substack{(x,t),(y,t)\in S_{T}\\\Vert x-y\Vert\leq r}}|f(x,t)-f(y,t)| \Vert f\Vert_{\mathcal{D}(S_{T})}=\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\omega_{f,S_{T}}(r)}% {r}dr+\Vert f\Vert_{L^{\infty}\left( S_{T}\right) } we ask aijD(ST)<\Vert a_{ij}\Vert_{\mathcal{D}(S_{T})}<\infty. We bound ωuxixj,ST\omega_{u_{x_{i}x_{j}},S_{T}}, uxixjL(ST)\left\Vert u_{x_{i}x_{j}}\right\Vert _{L^{\infty}(S_{T})} (i,j=1,2,...,m0i,j=1,2,...,m_{0}), ωYu,ST\omega_{Yu,S_{T}}, YuL(ST)\Vert Yu\Vert_{L^{\infty}(S_{T})} in terms of ωLu,ST\omega_{\mathcal{L}u,S_{T}}, LuL(ST)\Vert Lu\Vert_{L^{\infty}(S_{T})} and uL(ST)\Vert u\Vert_{L^{\infty}\left( S_{T}\right) }, getting a control on the uniform continuity in space of uxixj,Yuu_{x_{i}x_{j}},Yu if LuLu is bounded and Dini-continuous in space. Under the additional assumption that aija_{ij} and Lu\mathcal{L}u are log-Dini continuous, meaning the finiteness of the quantity% 01ωf,ST(r)rlogrdr, \int_{0}^{1}\frac{\omega_{f,S_{T}}\left( r\right) }{r}\left\vert \log r\right\vert dr, we prove that uxixju_{x_{i}x_{j}} and YuYu are Dini continuous; moreover, in this case, the derivatives uxixju_{x_{i}x_{j}} are locally uniformly continuous in space and time.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11641,
  title  = {KFP operators with coefficients measurable in time and Dini continuous in space},
  author = {Stefano Biagi and Marco Bramanti and Bianca Stroffolini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11641},
  year   = {2023}
}
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