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The Wentzell Laplacian via forms and the approximative trace

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-19 v2

Abstract

We use form methods to define suitable realisations of the Laplacian on a domain Ω\Omega with Wentzell boundary conditions, i.e. such that nu+βu+Δu=0\partial_{\mathrm{n}}u + \beta u + \Delta u = 0 holds in a suitable sense on the boundary of Ω\Omega. For those realisations, we study their semigroup generation properties. Using the approximative trace, we give a unified treatment that in part allows irregular and even fractal domains. Moreover, we admit β\beta to be merely essentially bounded and complex-valued. If the domain is Lipschitz, we obtain a kernel continuous up to the boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12981,
  title  = {The Wentzell Laplacian via forms and the approximative trace},
  author = {Wolfgang Arendt and Manfred Sauter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12981},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages