Gaussian estimates vs. elliptic regularity on open sets

arXiv2307.03648MaRDI QIDQ6442985FDOQ6442985

Authors: S. Ciani, Moritz Egert 

Publication date: 7 July 2023

Abstract: Given an elliptic operator $L=-mathrmdiv(Aablacdot)$ subject to mixed boundary conditions on an open subset of $mathbb{R}^d$, we study the relation between Gaussian pointwise estimates for the kernel of the associated heat semigroup, H"older continuity of $L$-harmonic functions and the growth of the Dirichlet energy. To this end, we generalize an equivalence theorem of Auscher and Tchamitchian to the case of mixed boundary conditions and to open sets far beyond Lipschitz domains. Yet we prove consistency of our abstract result by encompassing operators with real-valued coefficients and their small complex perturbations into one of the aforementioned equivalent properties. The resulting kernel bounds open the door for developing a harmonic analysis for the associated semigroups on rough open sets.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Elliptic operators and their generalizations (47F10)

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