scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1141705

Publication date 16 August 1998

Dirichlet forms Harnack inequalities homogeneous spaces local solutions nonhomogeneous and nonisotropic bodies Saint-Venant type decays subelliptic operators weighted uniform elliptic operators

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Dirichlet forms (31C25) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15)

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The authors consider a body \(X\) with an irregular internal structure, possibly highly nonhomogeneous and nonisotropic and denote by \(u\colon X\to{\mathbb{R}}\) the description of a physical state of \(X\) whose equilibrium is subjected to a variational principle. They assume \(X\) to be a locally compact Hausdorff topological space, denote by \(m\) a positive Radon measure on \(X\), by \(H\) the Hilbert space \(L^2(X,m)\) and by \(a\) a Dirichlet form of diffusion type, regular in \(H\). They assume that the energy functional minimized by the physical state is given by \(a\). For this class of forms, it is possible to introduce the definition of a local minimizer (in an open arbitrary subset \(X_0\) of \(X\)) of the energy functional \(E[u]={1\over 2}a(u,u)\). The paper gives some results, under convenient assumptions, describing the behavior of a local minimizer in \(X_0\), in a neighborhood of an arbitrary point \(x_0\), having estimates of a structural character, i.e., the properties hold uniformly for a whole family of equivalence classes of Dirichlet forms of diffusion type. More precisely, a Harnack inequality and a Saint-Venant principle are proved and an estimate for the Green function is obtained. Then they give some examples where the assumptions are satisfied. This paper does not give proofs of the results, and the proofs are contained in a separate paper by the authors: appearing in Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 169 (1995), 125-181. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00040].

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