The mean value theorem and basic properties of the obstacle problem for divergence form elliptic operators

DOI10.4310/CAG.2015.V23.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ487965zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Blank, Zheng Hao

Publication date 23 January 2015

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2952

zbMATH Keywords

general elliptic divergence form operatorsobstacle problemquadratic nondegeneracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Unilateral problems for nonlinear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear elliptic operators (35J87)

Abstract: In 1963, Littman, Stampacchia, and Weinberger proved a mean value theorem for elliptic operators in divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients. In the Fermi lectures in 1998, Caffarelli stated a much simpler mean value theorem for the same situation, but did not include the details of the proof. We show all of the nontrivial details needed to prove the formula stated by Caffarelli, and in the course of showing these details we establish some of the basic facts about the obstacle problem for general elliptic divergence form operators, in particular, we show a basic quadratic nondegeneracy property.

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