Elliptic operators of variational form in unbounded domains in \(R^ n\) (Q1124037)

The author studies the coercivity of certain sesquilinear forms of the type \[ b(u,v):=\int_{\Omega}\sum_{| p|,| q| \leq m}b_{pq}(x)D^ pu(x)\overline{D^ qv(x)} dx \] where the domain \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^ n\) is unbounded and the functions u, v are elements of suitable weighted Sobolev spaces. Among other things various inequalities of Gårding type are established.