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

DOI10.4310/CAG.2015.V23.N1.A4zbMATH Open1309.35034arXiv1302.2952OpenAlexW2134973866MaRDI QIDQ487965FDOQ487965

Authors: Ivan Blank, Zheng Hao 

Publication date: 23 January 2015

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

obstacle problemgeneral elliptic divergence form operatorsquadratic 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)

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