Geometry of mean value sets for general divergence form uniformly elliptic operators

DOI10.1007/S11118-017-9672-4MaRDI QIDQ1710486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashok Aryal, Ivan Blank

Publication date 22 January 2019

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07929

zbMATH Keywords

divergence form elliptic PDEfree boundary problemmean value theoremobstacle problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Unilateral problems for linear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with linear elliptic operators (35J86)

Abstract: In the Fermi Lectures on the obstacle problem in 1998, Caffarelli gave a proof of the mean value theorem which extends to general divergence form uniformly elliptic operators. In the general setting, the result shows that for any such operator $L$ and at any point $x_0$ in the domain, there exists a nested family of sets $D_r(x_0)$ where the average over any of those sets is related to the value of the function at $x_0.$ Although it is known that the $D_r(x_0)$ are nested and are comparable to balls in the sense that there exists $c,C$ depending only on $L$ such that $B_{cr}(x_0)subset{D}_r(x_0)subset{B}_{Cr}(x_0)$ for all $r>0$ and $x_0$ in the domain, otherwise their geometric and topological properties are largely unknown. In this paper we begin the study of these topics and we prove a few results about the geometry of these sets and give a couple of applications of the theorems.

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