The Neumann problem for higher order elliptic equations with symmetric coefficients (Q1751026)

In the paper under review, the authors investigate the Neumann problem for higher order elliptic equations with symmetric coefficients in the half space \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+\). They consider elliptic differential operators of the form \[ Lu=(-1)^m\sum_{|\alpha|=|\beta|=m}\partial^\alpha (A_{\alpha \beta}\partial^\beta u)\, . \] They assume that the operator is self-adjoint and that the coefficients \(A\) are such that \[ A(x,t)=A(x,s)=A(x)\qquad \forall x \in \mathbb{R}^n\, , \quad \forall s,t \in \mathbb{R}\, . \] Then they establish well posedness of the Neumann problem in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+\) with boundary data in the Lebesgue space \(L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\) or in the Sobolev space \(\dot W^2_{-1}(\mathbb{R}^n)\). The result is based on a higher order and one sided version of the classic Rellich identity.