Higher integrability for solutions to a system of critical elliptic PDE

DOI10.4310/MAA.2014.V21.N2.A3MaRDI QIDQ468600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ben Sharp

Publication date 7 November 2014

Published in Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1127

zbMATH Keywords

critical elliptic systemsharmonic mapsMorrey-Hardy spacesregularityRiesz potential estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Harmonic analysis and PDEs (42B37) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We give new estimates for a critical elliptic system introduced by Rivi`ere-Struwe in cite{riviere_struwe} (see also the work of Rupflin cite{rupflin} and Schikorra cite{schikorra_frames}), which generalises PDE solved by harmonic (and almost harmonic) maps from a Euclidean ball $B_{1}In{R}^n$ into Riemannian manifolds. Solutions take the form ${\displaystyle }$-Dl u = Om.D u ${\displaystyle }$ where $Om$ is an anti-symmetric potential with $Om$ and $Du$ belonging to the Morrey space $M^{2,n-2}$ making the PDE critical from a regularity perspective (classical theory gives one estimates on $Du$ in the weak-Morrey space $M^{(2,infty),n-2}$, see Sections ef{adams_decay} and ef{Morrey} for definitions if necessary). We use the Coulomb frame method employed in cite{riviere_struwe} along with the H"older regularity already acquired in cite{rupflin}, coupled with an extension of a Riesz potential estimate of Adams cite{adams_riesz} in order to attain estimates on $D^{2}uin{M}^{s,n-2}$ for any $s<2$. These methods apply when $n=2$ thereby re-proving the full regularity in this case (see cite{Sh_To}) using Coulomb gauge methods. Moreover they lead to a self contained proof of the local regularity of stationary harmonic maps in high dimension (see Corollary ef{highint}).

Review text

The paper is concerned with critical elliptic systems in the tradition of \textit{T. Rivière} [Invent. Math. 168, No. 1, 1--22 (2007; Zbl 1128.58010)] and \textit{T. Rivière} and \textit{M. Struwe} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 61, No. 4, 451--463 (2008; Zbl 1144.58011)] which include, most prominently, the harmonic map system. In the current paper, a right-hand side \(f\) is allowed to appear in the system, which formally reads \(-\Delta u-\Omega\cdot\nabla u=f\), with \(\Omega\) usually depending on \(u\) and \(\nabla u\). The domain dimension is allowed to be critical (\(n=2\)) or super-critical (\(n\geq3\)).NEWLINENEWLINEAssuming \(f\in L^p\) for \(p\in(n/2,n)\) and that both \(\nabla u\) and \(\Omega\) are in the Morrey space \(M^{2,n-2}\) natural for the problem, and that \(\Omega\) is sufficiently small in that space, the author proves higher regularity, namely local control of \(\nabla^2u\) in \(M^{2p/n,n-2}\) and of \(\nabla u\) in \(M^{2p/(n-p),n-2}\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe proof uses Rivière's technique of gauge fixing and requires subtle improvements of Adams-type potential estimates.

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