Optimal gradient continuity for degenerate elliptic equations

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Authors Damião J. Araújo, Gleydson C. Ricarte, Eduardo V. Teixeira

Publication date 18 June 2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70)

Abstract: We establish new, optimal gradient continuity estimates for solutions to a class of 2nd order partial differential equations, $mathscrL(X,ablau,D^{2}u)=f$, whose diffusion properties (ellipticity) degenerate along the extit{a priori} unknown singular set of an existing solution, $mathscrS(u):=X:ablau(X)=0$. The innovative feature of our main result concerns its optimality -- the sharp, encoded smoothness aftereffects of the operator. Such a quantitative information usually plays a decisive role in the analysis of a number of analytic and geometric problems. Our result is new even for the classical equation $|ablau|cdotDeltau=1$. We further apply these new estimates in the study of some well known problems in the theory of elliptic PDEs.

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