Weighted inequalities and degenerate elliptic partial differential equations (Q794192)

Degenerate elliptic equations considered here are of the form \(div A(x,u,\nabla u)=B(x,u,\nabla u)\) where A and B are Borel measurable functions, satisfying certain growth conditions. The last fourty pages of the book are concerned with establishing continuity for such equations. In the first part, consisting of two chapters, the analysis of weighted spaces and weighted inequalities has been developed which enable the applications in the last part. In chapter 1 the relationship between maximal functions, covering lemmas and Lebesgue differentiation of integrals is reviewed. Hardy's inequalities are introduced and also a number of comparability results to be used later on. In chapter 2 the emphasis is on weighted Sobolev inequalities and the properties of weighted Sobolev spaces. All this leads naturally to a discussion of capacity, quasicontinuity and convergence in such spaces. In the applications one obtains results as the Harnack inequality and interior and boundary continuity for weak solutions. The presentation is highly technical but, for those interested in the subject, these notes contain a collection of results, difficult to find in the literature.