Carleman estimate for second order elliptic equations with Lipschitz leading coefficients and jumps at an interface

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2016.10.015MaRDI QIDQ2364113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Francini, C.-L. Lin, Sergio Vessella, Jenn-Nan Wang, Michele Di Cristo

Publication date 18 July 2017

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06084

zbMATH Keywords

Carleman estimateelliptic operatornonsmooth coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57)

Abstract: In this paper we prove a local Carleman estimate for second order elliptic equations with a general anisotropic Lipschitz coefficients having a jump at an interface. Our approach does not rely on the techniques of microlocal analysis. We make use of the elementary method so that we are able to impose almost optimal assumptions on the coefficients and, consequently, the interface.

Review text

The authors prove a local Carleman estimate for a second-order elliptic operator with anisotropic Lipschitz coefficients having a jump across a \(C^{1,1}\) interface. The result is close to that of \textit{J. Le Rousseau} et al. [Anal. PDE 6, No. 7, 1601--1648 (2013; Zbl 1319.47038)], where the Carleman estimate was shown under the regularity assumption that the coefficients are \(C^\infty\) away from a \(C^\infty\) interface. Unlike the above reference, the proof in the paper under review does not rely on the techniques of pseudodifferential operators. Instead they first consider the simple case, where the coefficients depend only on the normal variable, and derive a Carleman estimate directly via Fourier transform. For the general coefficients they rely on approximation and a suitable partition of unity.

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