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Solvability of the divergence equation implies John via Poincar\'e inequality

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2013-07-05 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let Ω\rr2\Omega \subset \rr^2 be a bounded simply connected domain. We show that, for a fixed (every) p(1,\fz),p\in (1,\fz), the divergence equation divv=f\mathrm{div}\,\mathbf{v}=f is solvable in W01,p(Ω)2W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)^2 for every fL0p(Ω)f\in L^p_0(\Omega), if and only if Ω\Omega is a John domain, if and only if the weighted Poincar\'e inequality Ωu(x)uΩqdxCΩu(x)q\dist(x,Ω)qdx\int_\Omega|u(x)-u_{\Omega}|^q\,dx\le C\int_\Omega|\nabla u(x)|^q\dist(x,\partial \Omega)^q\,dx holds for some (every) q[1,\fz)q\in [1,\fz). In higher dimensions similar results are proved under some additional assumptions on the domain in question.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1340,
  title  = {Solvability of the divergence equation implies John via Poincar\'e inequality},
  author = {Renjin Jiang and Aapo Kauranen and Pekka Koskela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1340},
  year   = {2013}
}