Gradient estimates and the fundamental solution for higher-order elliptic systems with rough coefficients (Q728465)

The paper deals with \(2m\)-order divergence form elliptic operators of the form \[ (L\mathbf{u})_j =(-1)^m \sum_{k=1}^N \sum_{|\alpha|=m} \sum_{|\beta|=m}\partial^\alpha \left( A^{jk}_{\alpha\beta}\partial^\beta u_k\right) \] and in particular with a system of equations \[ (L\mathbf{u})_j=(-1)^m \sum_{|\alpha|=m}\partial^\alpha F_{j,\alpha} \] with \(1\leq j\leq N,\) \(\mathbf{u}(x)=\big(u_1(x),\ldots,u_N(x)\big),\) \(x\in \mathbb{R}^d,\) and where the measurable complex coefficients \(A^{jk}_{\alpha\beta}\) are assumed to be only essentially bounded. The author constructs a fundamental solution of the operator \(L\) and provides new generalizations of the well-known tools from the theory of second-order equations, such as the Caccioppoli inequality and Meyers's reverse Hölder inequality for gradients.