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In this paper, we extend the nontangential maximal function estimate obtained by C. Kenig, F. Lin and Z. Shen in \cite{KFS1} to the nonhomogeneous elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. The result relies on the…

We derive global gradient estimates for $W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)$-weak solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations of the form $$ \mathrm{div\,}\mathbf{a}(x,u,Du)=\mathrm{div\,}(|F|^{p-2}F) $$ over $n$-dimensional Reifenberg flat domains. The…

We establish local boundedness and local H\"older continuity of weak solutions to the following prototype problem: $$ -\operatorname{div}\left(|x|^{-2 \beta}|\nabla u|^{\mathbf{q}-2} \nabla u\right)+(-\Delta)_{p(\cdot, \cdot),…

The operator \[ A_{\varepsilon}= D_{1} g_{1}(x_{1}/\varepsilon, x_{2}) D_{1} + D_{2} g_{2}(x_{1}/\varepsilon, x_{2}) D_{2} \] is considered in $L_{2}({\mathbb{R}}^{2})$, where $g_{j}(x_{1},x_{2})$, $j=1,2,$ are periodic in $x_{1}$ with…

In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{C}^n)$ we consider selfadjoint strongly elliptic second order differential operators ${\mathcal A}_\varepsilon$ with periodic coefficients depending on ${\mathbf x}/ \varepsilon$, $\varepsilon>0$. We study the…

In the present paper, we consider elliptic operators $L=-\textrm{div}(A\nabla)$ in a domain bounded by a chord-arc surface $\Gamma$ with small enough constant, and whose coefficients $A$ satisfy a weak form of the Dahlberg-Kenig-Pipher…

$C^\alpha$ and $W^{1,\infty}$ estimates for the first-order and second-order correctors in the homogenization are presented based on the translation invariant and Li-Vogelius's gradient estimate for the second order linear elliptic equation…

This paper is devoted to the study of shape optimization problems for the first eigenvalue of the elliptic operator with drift L = --$\Delta$+V (x)\cdot \nabla with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where V is a bounded vector field. In the…

Let $\Omega$ be a domain of $\mathbb R^n$ with $n\ge 2$ and $p(\cdot)$ be a local Lipschitz funcion in $\Omega$ with $1<p(x)<\infty$ in $\Omega$. We build up an interior quantitative second order Sobolev regularity for the normalized…

Numerical homogenization aims to efficiently and accurately approximate the solution space of an elliptic partial differential operator with arbitrarily rough coefficients in a $d$-dimensional domain. The application of the inverse operator…

We consider periodic homogenization of nonlinearly elastic composite materials. Under suitable assumptions on the stored energy function (frame indifference; minimality, non-degeneracy and smoothness at identity; $p\geq d$-growth from…

We study quasilinear elliptic equations of the form $\text{div} \mathbf{A}(x,u,\nabla u) = \text{div}\mathbf{F} $ in bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$. The vector field $\mathbf{A}$ is allowed to be discontinuous in $x$,…

For a second order differential operator $A(\msx) =-\nabla a(\msx)\nabla + b'(\msx)\nabla+ \nabla \big(\msb''(\msx) \cdot\big)$ on a bounded domain $D$ with the Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partial D$ there exists the inverse…

We study the existence of uniformly bounded extension and trace operators for $W^{1,p}$-functions on randomly perforated domains, where the geometry is assumed to be stationary ergodic. Such extension and trace operators are important for…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a Lipschitz domain. Given $1\leq p<k\leq n$ and any $u\in W^{2,p}(\Omega)$ belonging to the little H\"older class $c^{1,\alpha}$, we construct a sequence $u_j$ in the same space with…

On a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}$, $n\geq2$, satisfying the corkscrew condition and with Ahlfors regular boundary, we characterize the dual space to the space ${\bf N}_{2,p}$ of functions $u$ whose Kenig-Pipher modified…

Let $n\ge2$ and $\Omega$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this article, the authors investigate global (weighted) estimates for the gradient of solutions to Robin boundary value problems of second order elliptic equations…

In this paper we prove a sharp lower bound for the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue $\mu_1(\Omega)$ for the $p$-Laplace operator in a Lipschitz, bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\R^n$. Our estimate does not require any convexity assumption on…

Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a second-order linear elliptic operator with complex coefficients. We show that if the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for the elliptic system $\mathcal{L}(u)=0$ in a fixed Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is…

In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{C}^n)$, consider a self-adjoint matrix second order elliptic differential operator $\mathcal{B}_\varepsilon$, $0<\varepsilon \leqslant 1$. The principal part of the operator is given in a factorised form, the…