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The $L^p$ Dirichlet and Regularity problems for second order Elliptic Systems with application to the Lam\'e system

Analysis of PDEs 2020-06-24 v1

Abstract

In the paper arXiv:1708.02289 we have introduced new solvability methods for strongly elliptic second order systems in divergence form on a domains above a Lipschitz graph, satisfying LpL^p-boundary data for pp near 22. The main novel aspect of our result is that it applies to operators with coefficients of limited regularity and applies to operators satisfying a natural Carleson condition that has been first considered in the scalar case. In this paper we extend this result in several directions. We improve the range of solvability of the LpL^p Dirichlet problem to the interval 2ε<p<2(n1)(n3)+ε2-\varepsilon < p<\frac{2(n-1)}{(n-3)}+\varepsilon, for systems in dimension n=2,3n=2,3 in the range 2ε<p<2-\varepsilon < p<\infty. We do this by considering solvability of the Regularity problem (with boundary data having one derivative in LpL^p) in the range 2ε<p<2+ε2-\varepsilon < p<2+\varepsilon. Secondly, we look at perturbation type-results where we can deduce solvability of the LpL^p Dirichlet problem for one operator from known LpL^p Dirichlet solvability of a \lq\lq close" operator (in the sense of Carleson measure). This leads to improvement of the main result of the paper arXiv:1708.02289; we establish solvability of the LpL^p Dirichlet problem in the interval 2ε<p<2(n1)(n2)+ε2-\varepsilon < p<\frac{2(n-1)}{(n-2)}+\varepsilon under a much weaker (oscillation-type) Carleson condition. A particular example of the system where all these results apply is the Lam\'e operator for isotropic inhomogeneous materials with Poisson ratio ν<0.396\nu<0.396. In this specific case further improvements of the solvability range are possible, see the upcoming work with J. Li and J. Pipher.

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@article{arxiv.2006.13015,
  title  = {The $L^p$ Dirichlet and Regularity problems for second order Elliptic Systems with application to the Lam\'e system},
  author = {Martin Dindoš},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13015},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

40 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1708.02289

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