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The Methods of Layer Potentials for General Elliptic Homogenization Problems in Lipschitz Domains

Analysis of PDEs 2018-01-30 v1

Abstract

In terms of layer potential methods, this paper is devoted to study the L2L^2 boundary value problems for nonhomogeneous elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating coefficients in a periodic setting. Under a low regularity assumption on the coefficients, we establish the solvability for Dirichlet, regular and Neumann problems in a bounded Lipschitz domain, as well as, the uniform nontangential maximal function estimates and square function estimates. The main difficulty is reflected in two aspects: (i) we can not treat the lower order terms as a compact perturbation to the leading term due to the low regularity assumption; (ii) the nonhomogeneous systems do not possess a scaling-invariant property in general. Although this work may be regarded as a follow-up to C. Kenig and Z. Shen's in \cite{SZW24}, we make an effort to find a clear way of how to handle the nonhomogeneous operators by using the known results of the homogenous ones. Also, we mention that the periodicity condition plays a key role in the scaling-invariant estimates.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09220,
  title  = {The Methods of Layer Potentials for General Elliptic Homogenization Problems in Lipschitz Domains},
  author = {Qiang Xu and Peihao Zhao and Shulin Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09220},
  year   = {2018}
}

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75 pages

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