The Dirichlet problem for Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck type equations with rough coefficients (Q820520)

Let \((X,Y,t)= (x_1,\ldots, x_m, y_1,\ldots, y_m, t)\in \mathbb R^m \times\mathbb R^m \times \mathbb R\) and \(A=A(X,Y,t)= \{a_{i,j}(X,Y,t) \}\) be a real \(m\times m\) matrix valued, measurable function such that \(A(X,Y,t)\) is symmetric, bounded and uniformly elliptic. The authors consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem \[ \begin{cases} \mathcal L u = g^\ast &\text{in } U_X \times V_{Y,t}, \\ u= g &\text{on } \partial_{\mathcal K} (U_X \times V_{Y,t}). \end{cases} \] Here \(U_X \subset \mathbb R^m, V_{Y,t} \subset \mathbb R^m\times \mathbb R\) and \(\partial_{\mathcal K} (U_X \times V_{Y,t})\) is referred as the Kolmogorov boundary of \(U_X \times V_{Y,t}\), which serves as the substitute for the parabolic boundary in the context of the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for uniformly elliptic parabolic equations. The authors establish existence and uniqueness, in bounded as well as unbounded Lipschitz type cylinders \(U_X \times V_{Y,t}\) and \(\Omega\times \mathbb R^m\times \mathbb R\), of weak solutions to the above Cauchy-Dirichlet problem. Moreover, they solve the continuous Dirichlet problem and establish the representation of the solution using associated parabolic measures. The paper is inspired by the recent work of Armstrong and Mourrat [arXiv:1902.04037], and the key idea is to prove that the solution can be obtained as the minimizer of a uniformly convex functional.