The Methods of Layer Potentials for General Elliptic Homogenization Problems in Lipschitz Domains
Abstract
In terms of layer potential methods, this paper is devoted to study the 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