Boundary value problems in Lipschitz domains for equations with drifts

Publication date: 28 January 2017

Abstract: In this work we establish solvability and uniqueness for the

D_{2}

Dirichlet problem and the

R_{2}

Regularity problem for second order elliptic operators

L = - m d i v (A a b l a c d o t) + b a b l a c d o t

in bounded Lipschitz domains, where

b

is bounded, as well as their adjoint operators

L^{t} = - m d i v (A^{t} a b l a c d o t) - m d i v (b, c d o t)

. The methods that we use are estimates on harmonic measure, and the method of layer potentials. The nature of our techniques applied to

D_{2}

for

L

and

R_{2}

for

L^{t}

leads us to impose a specific size condition on

m d i v b

in order to obtain solvability. On the other hand, we show that

R_{2}

for

L

and

D_{2}

for

L^{t}

are uniquely solvable, assuming only that

A

is Lipschitz continuous (and not necessarily symmetric) and

b

is bounded.

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