Hessian estimates for non-divergence form elliptic equations arising from composite materials (Q2660162)

The authors consider an elliptic operator in non-divergence form and look for interior estimates for the solutions. The equation is settled in a domain containing \(M\) disjoint sub-domains with \(C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}\) boundaries. In particular the authors assume that the coefficients and the data are allowed to be discontinuous across the interfacial boundaries. They prove piecewise \(C^2\) regularity and a local \(W^{2,\infty}\) estimate for the \(W^{2,1}\) strong solutions in case the coefficients and the data are piecewise Dini continuous in the \(L1-\)mean sense in each subdomain. To this aim they use the Campanato's approach presented in [\textit{S. Campanato}, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Sci. Fis. Mat., III. Ser. 17, 175--188 (1963; Zbl 0121.29201); \textit{M. Giaquinta}, Multiple integrals in the calculus of variations and nonlinear elliptic systems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1983; Zbl 0516.49003)], showing that the mean oscillation of \(D^2u\) (or \(Du\), or \(u\), respectively) in balls vanishes to certain order as the radii of the balls go to zero. As a byproduct, the authors also obtain a similar result for the adjoint problem.