HÖLDER REGULARITY OF SOLUTIONS OF PDE'S: A GEOMETRICAL VIEW (Q2769484)

In a introduction the authors explain fundamental ideas and procedures used for the proof of Hölder continuity and Harnack inequalities for weak solutions of elliptic and parabolic equations starting from famous Moser's proof in 1960. Deep analysis makes clear that there are few basic features of underlying Euclidean space used in this context and it leads naturally to a more general geometric setting of the problem, namely: Given a space of homogeneous type and a family of real functions defined on an open subset of the space, find necessary and sufficient conditions on the family of functions considered in order to prove Harnack's inequality over the balls defined by the underlying quasi distance. This is the main task of the paper and the authors prove first a Calderón-Zygmund type of decomposition of a bounded open subset of a considered space under natural restrictions on geometry and measure involved. Using this result they study relations among cones of functions satisfying Harnack's inequality, weak Harnack's inequality or having De Giorgi property, doubling, critical density or oscillation property in suitably generalized sense. Inclusions and equivalences of these classes are the main result of the paper.