Regularity theory and Green's function for elliptic equations with lower order terms in unbounded domains
Abstract
We consider elliptic operators in divergence form with lower order terms of the form div, in an open set , , with possibly infinite Lebesgue measure. We assume that the matrix is uniformly elliptic with real, merely bounded and possibly non-symmetric coefficients, and either and , or , where stands for the local Stummel-Kato class. Let be a variant of satisfying a Carleson-Dini-type condition. We develop a De Giorgi/Nash/Moser theory for solutions of div, where and if, for , any of the following assumptions holds: a) and either or ; b) div and either or ; c) div and . 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 div, we construct the Green's function associated with satisfying quantitative estimates. Under the additional hypothesis , we show that it satisfies global pointwise bounds and also construct the Green's function associated with the formal adjoint operator of . An important feature of our results is that all the estimates are scale invariant and independent of , while we do not assume smallness of the norms of the coefficients or coercivity of the bilinear form.
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@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)