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Boundary value problems in Lipschitz domains for equations with drifts

Analysis of PDEs 2017-05-12 v2

Abstract

In this work we establish solvability and uniqueness for the D2D_2 Dirichlet problem and the R2R_2 Regularity problem for second order elliptic operators L=div(A)+bL=-{\rm div}(A\nabla\cdot)+b\nabla\cdot in bounded Lipschitz domains, where bb is bounded, as well as their adjoint operators Lt=div(At)div(b)L^t=-{\rm div}(A^t\nabla\cdot)-{\rm div}(b\,\cdot). The methods that we use are estimates on harmonic measure, and the method of layer potentials. The nature of our techniques applied to D2D_2 for LL and R2R_2 for LtL^t leads us to impose a specific size condition on divb{\rm div}b in order to obtain solvability. On the other hand, we show that R2R_2 for LL and D2D_2 for LtL^t are uniquely solvable, assuming only that AA is Lipschitz continuous (and not necessarily symmetric) and bb is bounded.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08332,
  title  = {Boundary value problems in Lipschitz domains for equations with drifts},
  author = {Georgios Sakellaris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08332},
  year   = {2017}
}
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