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Robin Problems of Elliptic Equations on Rough Domains: H\"older Regularity, Green's Functions, and Harmonic Measures

Analysis of PDEs 2025-09-30 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let n2n\ge 2 and s(n2,n)s\in (n-2,n). Assume that ΩRn\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n is a one-sided bounded non-tangentially accessible domain with ss-Ahlfors regular boundary and σ\sigma is the surface measure on the boundary of Ω\Omega, denoted by Ω\partial \Omega. Let β\beta be a non-negative measurable function on Ω\partial \Omega satisfying βLq0(Ω,σ) with q0(ss+2n,] and βa0 on E0Ω,\beta\in L^{q_0}(\partial \Omega,\sigma)~\text{with}~ q_0 \in(\frac{s}{s+2-n},\infty]~\text{and}\ \beta\ge a_0~\text{on}~E_0\subset \partial \Omega, where a0a_0 is a given positive constant and E0ΩE_0\subset \partial \Omega is a σ\sigma-measurable set with σ(E0)>0\sigma(E_0)>0. In this article, for any fLp(Ω,σ)f\in L^p(\partial \Omega,\sigma) with p(s/(s+2n),]p\in(s/(s+2-n),\infty], we obtain the existence and uniqueness, the global H\"older regularity, and the boundary Harnack inequality of the weak solution to the Robin problem {div(Au)=0  in Ω,Auν+βu=f  on Ω,\begin{cases} -\mathrm{div}(A\nabla u) = 0~~&\text{in}~\Omega,\\ A\nabla u\cdot \boldsymbol{\nu}+\beta u = f~~&\text{on}~\partial \Omega, \end{cases} where the coefficient matrix AA is real-valued, bounded and measurable and satisfies the uniform ellipticity condition and where ν\boldsymbol{\nu} denotes the outward unit normal to Ω\partial\Omega. Furthermore, we establish the existence, upper bound pointwise estimates, and the H\"older regularity of Green's functions associated with this Robin problem. As applications, we further prove that the harmonic measure associated with this Robin problem is mutually absolutely continuous with respect to the surface measure σ\sigma and also provide a quantitative characterization of mutual absolute continuity at small scales. These results extend the corresponding results established by David et al. [arXiv: 2410.23914] via weakening their assumption that β\beta is a given positive constant.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23073,
  title  = {Robin Problems of Elliptic Equations on Rough Domains: H\"older Regularity, Green's Functions, and Harmonic Measures},
  author = {Jiayi Wang and Dachun Yang and Sibei Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23073},
  year   = {2025}
}

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34 pages; Submitted