The _b-Neumann problem on noncharacteristic domains

DOI10.2140/PJM.2009.242.71MaRDI QIDQ2270628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert K. Hladky

Publication date 28 July 2009

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0336, http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/pjm/2009/242-1/p04.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

boundary regularityCR manifoldKohn Laplaciansubelliptictangential Cauchy-Riemann equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR functions (32V10) (overlinepartial_b) and (overlinepartial_b)-Neumann operators (32W10) Subelliptic equations (35H20)

Abstract: We study the $$-Neumann problem for domains $Omega$ contained in a strictly pseudoconvex manifold M^{2n+1} whose boundaries are noncharacteristic and have defining functions depending solely on the real and imaginary parts of a single CR function w. When the Kohn Laplacian is a priori known to have closed range in L^2, we prove sharp regularity and estimates for solutions. We establish a condition on the boundary which is sufficient for the Kohn Laplacian to be Fredholm on $L_{(0,q)}^2(Omega)$ and show that this condition always holds when M is embedded as a hypersurface in C^{n+1}. We present examples where the inhomogeneous $$ equation can always be solved smoothly up to the boundary on (p,q)-forms with 0<q<n-1.

Review text

The \(\overline \partial_b \)- Neumann problem is studied for domains \(\Omega \) contained in a strictly pseudoconvex manifold \(M^{2n+1}\) whose boundaries are noncharacteristic and have defining functions depending solely on the real and imaginary parts of a single CR function. If the Kohn Laplacian has closed range in \(L^2,\) sharp regularity and estimates for solutions are proved. The author also gives a sufficient condition on the boundary \(\partial \Omega\) for \(\square_b\) to be Fredholm on \(L^2_{(0,q)}(\Omega )\) and shows that this condition always holds when \(M\) is embedded as a hypersurface in \(\mathbb{C}^{n+1}.\) In the appendix the author proves useful general functional analytic results about elliptic regularization, which are used before.

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