Some constructions with solutions of variable coefficient elliptic equations

DOI10.1007/BF02921289MaRDI QIDQ1312628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 13 December 1994

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02921289

critical point divergence-form elliptic equation

Connections of harmonic functions with differential equations in higher dimensions (31B35) Potential theory on Riemannian manifolds and other spaces (31C12)

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The author considers the following inverse problem: Suppose that \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ d\) with a smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\), and \(f\) and \(g\) are smooth real-valued functions on \(\partial\Omega\). When does there exist a divergence-form elliptic equation div\((A\nabla u)=0\) with a solution \(u\) such that \(u|_{\partial\Omega}=f\), \(A\nabla u\cdot n|_{\partial\Omega}=g\)? (Here \(n\) is the exterior unit normal, \(A\) and \(u\) are supposed to be smooth.) Further, a characterization of such pairs of functions \(f\), \(g\) on the boundary of \(\Omega\) (more generally: on the boundary of a compact manifold) and some applications of related questions in potential theory are given.

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