Traces, extensions and co-normal derivatives for elliptic systems on Lipschitz domains (Q631867)

The author considers the definitions of non-unique generalized and unique canonical co-normal derivative for functions in the Sobolev space \(H^s(\Omega )\) for \(s\in(1/2,3/2),\) related to possible extensions to the boundary of a partial differential operator and its right-hand side defined in the domain \(\Omega.\) It is shown, that the canonical co-normal derivatives, although defined on a more narrow function class than the generalized ones, are continuous extensions of the classical co-normal derivatives. Some new results about trace operator estimates and Sobolev spaces characterizations are also presented.