Layer potentials and boundary value problems for elliptic equations with complex \(L^\infty\) coefficients satisfying the small Carleson measure norm condition (Q481693): Difference between revisions

The authors state two main results on the layer potentials. In the introduction, they recall some definitions as: Small Carleson measure condition for \(A(x,t)\), a square matrix with complex-valued bounded functions on \(\mathbb R^{n}\times \mathbb R\) as entries, some explicit Sobolev spaces, the Hölder/Harnack estimation for uniformly elliptic equation, etc. Also, they define the single layer potential, which is an integral operator such its integrand is the fundamental solution in \(\mathbb R^{n}\times\mathbb R\) of \(L:=-\nabla(A(x,t)\nabla)\), a second-order divergence form linear elliptic differential operator, also they define the double layer potential given in terms of the adjoint exterior co-normal derivative of the fundamental solution associated to the adjoint of \(L\). Next, they stem from definitions of the layer potentials on the boundary, namely \(\mathbb R^n\). On the first main result, by assuming meaningful assumptions on \(L\), \(L_0=L_{|_{t=0}}\) and its adjoint, they show, on some explicit spaces (see Introduction), several boundedness corresponding to the single, double and boundary layer potentials (Theorem 1.12). On the second main result, they show that invertibility of boundary layer potentials for \(L_0\) imply the invertibility -- of these potentials -- for \(L\), and also they deal with necessary solvability conditions for \(L_0\) (Theorem 1.35).