Mixed boundary value problem on hypersurfaces (Q471839)

Summary: The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary value problems (BVPs) for the anisotropic Laplace-Beltrami equation \(\text{div}_{{\mathcal C}}(A\nabla_{{\mathcal C}}\varphi)= f\) on a smooth hypersurface with the boundary \(\Gamma=\partial{\mathcal C}\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). \(A(x)\) is an \(n\times n\) bounded measurable positive definite matrix function. The boundary is decomposed into two nonintersecting connected parts \(\Gamma= \Gamma_D\cup \Gamma_N\) and on \(\Gamma_D\) the Dirichlet boundary conditions are prescribed, while on \(\Gamma_N\) the Neumann conditions. The unique solvability of the mixed BVP is proved, based upon the Green formulae and Lax-Milgram lemma. Further, the existence of the fundamental solution to \(\text{div}_{{\mathcal S}}(A\nabla_{{\mathcal S}})\) is proved, which is interpreted as the invertibility of this operator in the setting \(\mathbb{H}^s_{p,\#}({\mathcal S})\to \mathbb{H}^{s-2}_{p,\#}({\mathcal S})\), where \(\mathbb{H}^s_{p,\#}({\mathcal S})\) is a subspace of the Bessel potential space and consists of functions with mean value zero.