Well-posed elliptic Neumann problems involving irregular data and domains (Q987707)

The paper is concerned with the study of the problem \(-\text{div}(a(x,\nabla u))=f(x)\) in \(\Omega\) subject to the Neumann boundary condition \(a(x,\nabla u)\cdot n=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a connected open set in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 2\), possibly unbounded with finite Lebesgue measure, \(a\) is a Carathéodory function and \(f\in L^q\), \(1\leq q\leq \infty\). Under various conditions on \(a\), \(f\) and the regularity of the domain \(\Omega\) the authors obtain the existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on the data of a generalized solution. The main ingredient of the proof is the use of isocapacitary inequalities to handle the lack of regularity of the domain \(\Omega\). The last section of the paper is concerned with applications of the main results to various classes of irregular (mostly unbounded) domains.