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On Second Order Elliptic and Parabolic Equations of Mixed Type

Analysis of PDEs 2014-01-03 v1

Abstract

It is known that solutions to second order uniformly elliptic and parabolic equations, either in divergence or nondivergence (general) form, are H\"{o}lder continuous and satisfy the interior Harnack inequality. We show that even in the one-dimensional case (xR1x\in R^1), these properties are not preserved for equations of mixed divergence-nondivergence structure: for elliptic equations. \begin{equation*} D_i(a^1_{ij}D_ju)+a^2_{ij}D_{ij}u=0, \end{equation*} and parabolic equations \begin{equation*} p\partial_t u=D_i(a_{ij}D_ju), \end{equation*} where p=p(t,x)p=p(t,x) is a bounded strictly positive function. The H\"{o}lder continuity and Harnack inequality are known if pp does not depend either on tt or on xx. We essentially use homogenization techniques in our construction. Bibliography: 23 titles.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0351,
  title  = {On Second Order Elliptic and Parabolic Equations of Mixed Type},
  author = {Gong Chen and Mikhail Safonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0351},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages