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Regularity theory and traces of $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions

Author(s): Pekka Koskela; Juan J. Manfredi; Enrique Villamor
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 755-766.
MSC (1991): Primary 35B65; Secondary 31B25
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Abstract: In this paper we discuss two different topics concerning $\mathcal{A}$-
harmonic functions. These are weak solutions of the partial differential equation

\begin{equation*}\text{div}(\mathcal{A}(x,\nabla u))=0,\end{equation*}

where $\alpha (x)|\xi |^{p-1}\le \langle \mathcal{A}(x,\xi ),\xi \rangle \le \beta (x) 		     	|\xi |^{p-1}$ for some fixed $p\in (1,\infty )$, the function $\beta $ is bounded and $\alpha (x)>0$ for a.e. $x$. First, we present a new approach to the regularity of $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions for $p>n-1$. Secondly, we establish results on the existence of nontangential limits for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions in the Sobolev space $W^{1,q}(\mathbb{B})$, for some $q>1$, where $\mathbb{B}$ is the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Here $q$ is allowed to be different from $p$.


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Additional Information:

Pekka Koskela
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Email: pkoskela@math.jyu.fi

Juan J. Manfredi
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
Email: manfredit@pitt.edu

Enrique Villamor
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199
Email: villamor@fiu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01430-4
PII: S 0002-9947(96)01430-4
Received by editor(s): June 7, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 23, 1995
Additional Notes: Research of the first author was partially supported by the Academy of Finland and NSF grant DMS-9305742
Research of the second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9101864
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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