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The $L^p$ Neumann problem for the Stokes system in nonsmooth domains

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-16 v1

Abstract

We study the LpL^p Neumann problem for the Stokes system on bounded Lipschitz domains in Rn\mathbb R^n with n2n\ge 2. Our main contribution is to introduce a nonlinear gradient quantity -- namely, the linear gradient weighted by a suitable power of the pair (u,ϕ)(\nabla u,\phi) -- in place of the standard linear gradient used in previous work by Geng and Shen (2025). This new approach allows us to establish a global second-order estimate, which in turn yields an improved reverse H\"older inequality and extends the known range of solvability for convex domains, particularly improving the upper bound for n3n\ge 3. \medskip \noindent \quad\ Beyond the convex setting, our method also applies to semi-convex domains. Moreover, for more general Lipschitz domains, we prove solvability under a smallness condition on the second fundamental form of the boundary, assuming the boundary has second-order derivatives in the weak-type Lorentz spaces W2Ln1,W^2L^{n-1,\infty} for n3n\ge 3, or W2L1,logLW^2L^{1,\infty}\log L for n=2n=2. In particular, our results cover all W2,qW^{2,q} domains with q>n1q>n-1.

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@article{arxiv.2607.15042,
  title  = {The $L^p$ Neumann problem for the Stokes system in nonsmooth domains},
  author = {Qianyun Miao and Fa Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15042},
  year   = {2026}
}