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The method of layer potentials in $L^p$ and endpoint spaces for elliptic operators with $L^\infty$ coefficients

Analysis of PDEs 2017-05-17 v1

Abstract

We consider layer potentials associated to elliptic operators Lu=div(Au)Lu=-{\rm div}(A \nabla u) acting in the upper half-space R+n+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+ for n2n\geq 2, or more generally, in a Lipschitz graph domain, where the coefficient matrix AA is LL^\infty and tt-independent, and solutions of Lu=0Lu=0 satisfy interior estimates of De Giorgi/Nash/Moser type. A "Calder\'on-Zygmund" theory is developed for the boundedness of layer potentials, whereby sharp LpL^p and endpoint space bounds are deduced from L2L^2 bounds. Appropriate versions of the classical "jump-relation" formulae are also derived. The method of layer potentials is then used to establish well-posedness of boundary value problems for LL with data in LpL^p and endpoint spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4783,
  title  = {The method of layer potentials in $L^p$ and endpoint spaces for elliptic operators with $L^\infty$ coefficients},
  author = {Steve Hofmann and Marius Mitrea and Andrew J. Morris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4783},
  year   = {2017}
}

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