Pointwise boundary differentiability of solutions of elliptic equations

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Abstract: In this paper, we give pointwise geometric conditions on the boundary which guarantee the differentiability of the solution at the boundary. Precisely, the geometric conditions are two parts: the proper blow up condition (see Definition 1) and the exterior Dini hypersurface condition (see Definition 2). If Omega satisfies this two conditions at x0inpartialOmega, the solution is differentiable at x0. Furthermore, counterexamples show that the conditions are optimal (see Remark 3 and the counterexample in Section 2).


In this paper, the authors consider the equation \[ - a_{ij}D^{ij}u= f \] in a bounded domain \(\Omega\). Let \(u\) be a solution of the associated Dirichlet problem. They give pointwise geometric conditions on the boundary which guarantee the differentiability of \(u\) at the boundary. Precisely, the geometric conditions are two parts: the proper blow up condition and the exterior Dini hypersurface condition. If \(\Omega\) satisfies this two conditions at \(x_0\in \partial \Omega\), the solution is differentiable at \(x_0\). Furthermore, they give counter examples showing that the conditions are optimal.











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