The Maximum Principle for Equations with Composite Coefficients
Date
2000-05-22
Authors
Lieberman, Gary M.
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Southwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
Abstract
It is well-known that the maximum of the solution of a linear elliptic equation can be estimated in terms of the boundary data provided the coefficient of the gradient term is either integrable to an appropriate power or blows up like a small negative power of distance to the boundary. Apushkinskaya and Nazarov showed that a similar estimate holds if this term is a sum of such functions provided the boundary of the domain is sufficiently smooth and a Dirichlet condition is prescribed. We relax the smoothness of the boundary and also consider non-Dirichlet boundary conditions using a variant of the method of Apushkinskaya and Nazarov. In addition, we prove a Holder estimate for solutions of oblique derivative problems for nonlinear equations satisfying similar conditions.
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Elliptic differential equations, Oblique boundary conditions, Maximum principles, Holder estimates, Harnack inequality, Parabolic differential equations
Citation
Lieberman, G. M. (2000). The maximum principle for equations with composite coefficients. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2000</i>(38), pp. 1-17.
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Attribution 4.0 International