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On scale invariant bounds for Green's function for second order elliptic equations with lower order coefficients and applications

Analysis of PDEs 2021-02-24 v1

Abstract

We construct Green's functions for elliptic operators of the form Lu=div(Au+bu)+cu+du\mathcal{L}u=-\text{div}(A\nabla u+bu)+c\nabla u+du in domains ΩRn\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R^n, under the assumption ddivbd\geq\text{div}b, or ddivcd\geq\text{div}c. We show that, in the setting of Lorentz spaces, the assumption bcLn,1(Ω)b-c\in L^{n,1}(\Omega) is both necessary and optimal to obtain pointwise bounds for Green's functions. We also show weak type bounds for Green's functions and their gradients. Our estimates are scale invariant and hold for general domains ΩRn\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R^n. Moreover, there is no smallness assumption on the norms of the lower order coefficients. As applications we obtain scale invariant global and local boundedness estimates for subsolutions to Ludivf+g\mathcal{L}u\leq -\text{div}f+g in the case ddivcd\geq\text{div}c.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04770,
  title  = {On scale invariant bounds for Green's function for second order elliptic equations with lower order coefficients and applications},
  author = {Georgios Sakellaris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04770},
  year   = {2021}
}

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48 pages

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