The Dirichlet problem for Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck type equations with rough coefficients

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2021.109226zbMATH Open1484.35357arXiv2012.11410OpenAlexW3198414195MaRDI QIDQ820520FDOQ820520

Authors: Malte Litsgård, Kaj Nyström 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish the existence and uniqueness, in bounded as well as unbounded Lipschitz type cylinders of the forms $U_{X}imes{V}_{Y,t}$ and $Omegaimesmathbb{R}^{m}imesmathbbR$, of weak solutions to Cauchy-Dirichlet problems for the strongly degenerate parabolic operator [ mathcal{L}:=

abla_Xcdot(A(X,Y,t) abla_X)+Xcdot

abla_Y-partial_t, ] assuming that $A=A(X,Y,t)=a_{i,j}(X,Y,t)$ is a real $mimesm$-matrix valued, measurable function such that $A(X,Y,t)$ is symmetric, bounded and uniformly elliptic. Subsequently we solve the continuous Dirichlet problem and establish the representation of the solution using associated parabolic measures. The paper is motivated, through our recent studies, arXiv:2012.03654, arXiv:2012.04278, arXiv:2012.07446, by a growing need and interest to gain a deeper understanding of the Dirichlet problem for the operator $mathcalL$ in Lipschitz type domains. The key idea underlying our results is to prove, along the lines of Brezis and Ekeland, and in particular following the recent work of S. Armstrong and J-C. Mourrat, arXiv:1902.04037, concerning variational methods for the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, that the solution can be obtained as the minimizer of a uniformly convex functional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11410

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemhypoellipticKolmogorov equationkinetic Fokker-Planck equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Ultraparabolic equations, pseudoparabolic equations, etc. (35K70) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) Subelliptic equations (35H20)

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