English

Regularity theory and Green's function for elliptic equations with lower order terms in unbounded domains

Analysis of PDEs 2023-10-05 v3

Abstract

We consider elliptic operators in divergence form with lower order terms of the form Lu=Lu=-divu+bu)cudu\nabla u+bu)-c\nabla u-du, in an open set ΩRn\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n, n3n\geq 3, with possibly infinite Lebesgue measure. We assume that the n×nn\times n matrix AA is uniformly elliptic with real, merely bounded and possibly non-symmetric coefficients, and either b,cLlocn,(Ω)b,c\in L^{n,\infty}_{loc}(\Omega) and dLlocn2,(Ω)d\in L_{loc}^{\frac{n}{2},\infty}(\Omega), or b2,c2,dKloc(Ω)|b|^2,|c|^2,|d|\in \mathcal{K}_{loc}(\Omega), where Kloc(Ω)\mathcal{K}_{loc}(\Omega) stands for the local Stummel-Kato class. Let KDini(Ω)\mathcal{K}_{Dini}(\Omega) be a variant of K(Ω)\mathcal{K}(\Omega) satisfying a Carleson-Dini-type condition. We develop a De Giorgi/Nash/Moser theory for solutions of Lu=fLu=f-divgg, where f|f| and g2KDini(Ω)|g|^2\in \mathcal{K}_{Dini}(\Omega) if, for q[n,)q\in [n, \infty), any of the following assumptions holds: a) b2,dKDini(Ω)|b|^2,|d|\in \mathcal{K}_{Dini}(\Omega) and either cLlocn,q(Ω)c\in L^{n,q}_{loc}(\Omega) or c2Kloc(Ω)|c|^2\in \mathcal{K}_{loc}(\Omega); b) divb+d0b +d \leq 0 and either b+cLlocn,q(Ω)b+c\in L^{n,q}_{loc}(\Omega) or b+c2Kloc(Ω)|b+c|^2\in \mathcal{K}_{loc}(\Omega); c) -divc+d0c+d \leq 0 and b+c2KDini(Ω)|b+c|^2\in \mathcal{K}_{Dini}(\Omega). We also prove a Wiener-type criterion for boundary regularity. Assuming global conditions on the coefficients, we show that the variational Dirichlet problem is well-posed and, assuming -divc+d0c+d\leq 0, we construct the Green's function associated with LL satisfying quantitative estimates. Under the additional hypothesis b+c2K(Ω)|b+c|^2\in \mathcal{K}'(\Omega), we show that it satisfies global pointwise bounds and also construct the Green's function associated with the formal adjoint operator of LL. An important feature of our results is that all the estimates are scale invariant and independent of Ω\Omega, while we do not assume smallness of the norms of the coefficients or coercivity of the bilinear form.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.04722,
  title  = {Regularity theory and Green's function for elliptic equations with lower order terms in unbounded domains},
  author = {Mihalis Mourgoglou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04722},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

In v.3 we have generalized the assumptions of our theorems related to the class $\mathcal{K}_{Dini}(\Omega)$ and we have fixed some minor mistakes and typos. The proofs of Lemmas 2.32 and 4.1 have been significantly modified, while in the proof of Theorem 3.5, we have added more details for the reader's convenience. To appear in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (CVPDE)