The asymptotics of the solutions of linear elliptic variational problems in domains with edges (Q2276744)

Summary: Let G be a bounded domain in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with piecewise smooth boundary \[ \partial G=\cup^{T}_{j=1}\Gamma_ j\cap \cup^{T- 1}_{j=1}{\mathcal M}_ j, \] where \(\Gamma_ j\) and \({\mathcal M}_ j\) are smooth connected (n-1)- and (n-2)-dimensional manifolds, respectively. Furthermore, let L be an elliptic differential operator of order 2m, a(u,v) a Dirichlet form corresponding to L and \({\mathcal V}^ m(G)\) the space of all functions from \(W^ m_ 2(G)\) satisfying the stable boundary conditions \(B_ k^{(j)}u=0\) on \(\Gamma_ j\) and \(N_ k^{(j)}u=0\) on \({\mathcal M}_ j\) (ord \(B_ k^{(j)}\leq m-1\) and ord \(N_ k^{(j)}\leq m-2)\). It is proved that the solution \(u\in {\mathcal V}^ m(G)\) of the variational problem \(a(u,v)=<f,v>\) for all \(v\in {\mathcal V}^ m(G)\) under certain conditions on f can be written as a sum of some singular terms and a regular term \(u_ 1\in W_ 2^{m+\beta}(G)\) (\(\beta\in (0,1])\).