On the torsion function with mixed boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S11118-020-09857-1MaRDI QIDQ2048846zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Carroll, M. van den Berg

Publication date 24 August 2021

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02336

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet boundary conditionNeumann boundary conditiontorsion function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

Abstract: Let $D$ be a non-empty open subset of $R^m,,mge2$, with boundary $partialD$, with finite Lebesgue measure $|D|$, and which satisfies a parabolic Harnack principle. Let $K$ be a compact, non-polar subset of $D$. We obtain the leading asymptotic behaviour as $varepsilondownarrow0$ of the $L^{infty}$ norm of the torsion function with a Neumann boundary condition on $partialD$, and a Dirichlet boundary condition on $partial(varepsilonK)$, in terms of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian with corresponding boundary conditions. These estimates quantify those of Burdzy, Chen and Marshall who showed that $DsetminusK$ is a non-trap domain.

Review text

The authors investigate properties of a solution \(u_{K,D}\) to the mixed boundary value problem \[-\Delta u = 1\ \text{in}\ D\setminus K,\ u=0\ \text{on}\ \partial K,\ \frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}=0 \ \text{on}\ \partial D,\] where \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^m,\ m\ge 2\) with a finite Lebesgue measure \(|D|\) and \(K\subset D\) is compact non-polar with positive logarithmic capacity if \(m=2\) or with positive Newtonian capacity if \(m\ge 3\). The main result is the leading asymptotic behaviour as \(\varepsilon \downarrow 0\) of the torsion function \(u_{\varepsilon K,D}\) in terms of the first eigenvalue \(\lambda(\varepsilon K,D)\) of the Laplacian with corresponding mixed boundary conditions.

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