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Global Hölder regularity for discontinuous elliptic equations in the plane

Author(s): Sofia Giuffrè
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1333-1344.
MSC (2000): Primary 35J25; Secondary 35J65
Posted: December 22, 2003
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Abstract: $C^{1, \mu}$-regularity up to the boundary is proved for solutions of boundary value problems for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients in the plane.

In particular, we deal with the Dirichlet boundary condition

\begin{displaymath}\begin{array}{ll} u= g(x) & \rm on \: \partial\Omega \end{array}\end{displaymath}

where $g(x) \in W^{2- \frac{1}{r}, r}(\partial \Omega)$, $r>2$, or with the following normal derivative boundary conditions:

\begin{displaymath}\begin{array}{lclr} \displaystyle \frac{\partial u}{\partial ... ...al n} + \sigma u = h( x) & \rm on \: \partial\Omega \end{array}\end{displaymath}

where $h(x) \in W^{1- \frac{1}{r}, r}(\partial \Omega)$, $r>2$, $\sigma >0$ and $n$ is the unit outward normal to the boundary $\partial \Omega$.


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Additional Information:

Sofia Giuffrè
Affiliation: D.I.M.E.T., Faculty of Engineering, University of Reggio Calabria, Via Graziella, Località Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Email: giuffre@ing.unirc.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07348-9
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07348-9
Keywords: Regularity up to the boundary, elliptic equations, boundary value problems
Received by editor(s): April 1, 2002
Posted: December 22, 2003
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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