Dirichlet problem for some hypoelliptic operators

DOI10.1007/BF02837224MaRDI QIDQ1267826zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Appert

Publication date 18 May 1999

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02837224

zbMATH Keywords

maximum principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypoelliptic equations (35H10) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70)

Review text

Let \[ L=\sum_{i=1}^n \sum_{j=1}^n a_{ij}(x) D_{ij}+ \sum_{i=1}^n b_i(x)D_i+ c(x) \] be a degenerate elliptic operator of second order with \(C^\infty\) coefficients with \(c\leq 0\) defined on an open set \(\Omega\) of \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Let us suppose that there exist vector fields \(X_1, X_2,\dots, X_r\), \(Y\) such that \(L\) can be written in the form \[ L=\sum_{k=1}^{k=r} X_k^2+ Y+c. \] Further let us assume that the Lie algebra generated by \(X_1, X_2,\dots, X_r\), \(Y\) at any point is of rank \(n\). For these operators, with the addition assumption that \(\exists \lambda<0\) such that \(c(x)\leq \lambda\), \(\forall x\in \Omega\), \textit{J. M. Bony} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 19, No. 1, 277-304 (1969; Zbl 0176.09703)] has proved the existence and uniqueness of the Dirichlet problem \(Lu=f\) in \(\omega\), \(u=\varphi\) on \(\partial\omega\), where \(f\) and \(\varphi\) are continuous and \(\omega\) is a relatively compact open subset of \(\Omega\), \(\overline{\omega} \subset\Omega\), such that \(\partial\omega\) admits a special kind of barrier. In this article we remove the above restriction on \(c\) and assume just that \(c\leq 0\), but assume that \(L\) satisfies maximum principles and prove the existence and uniqueness of the Dirichlet problem when \(f=0\).

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