EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS FOR A SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM ON LIPSCHITZ DOMAINS IN RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS (Q4532829)

The author studies a general class of semilinear elliptic equations \[ \triangle u = F(x, u) \quad \text{in } \Omega\tag \(*\) \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded connected Lipschitz domain lying in a smooth compact Riemannian manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\geqslant 3.\) Notice that \(L^p\) boundary value data on \(\partial \Omega\) does not ensure that the interior regularity for \((\ast)\) can be preserved up to the boundary. To deal with this the author introduces a new Banach space \({\mathcal D}^{s, p},\) which allows to put together interior smoothness with rougher behavior when approaching the boundary \(\partial \Omega.\) The paper is organized as follows: First, the author defines and studies properties of the Banach space \({\mathcal D}^{s, p};\) for instance, he states some ``trace'' theorems. Then he studies actions of the linear operator \( L := \triangle -V,\) on \(M,\) where \(\triangle\) is the Laplacian-Beltrami operator on \(M,\) and \(V\in L^\infty(M),V\geqslant 0\) on \(M,\) \(V >0\) on a set of positive measure in each component of \(M\setminus \overline{\Omega}.\) Then he proves uniform estimates of solutions for the operator \(L\) on \(\Omega.\) Finally, the author establishes existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems. For instance, equation \((\ast)\) and its variants are studied for boundary data in \(L^p\) and in the Hölder space \(C^\beta.\)