Degenerate Sobolev spaces and regularity of subelliptic equations
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Abstract:
We develop a notion of degenerate Sobolev spaces naturally associated with nonnegative quadratic forms that arise from a large class of linear subelliptic equations with rough coefficients. These Sobolev spaces allow us to make the widest possible definition of a weak solution that leads to local Hölder continuity of solutions, extending our results in an earlier work, where we studied regularity of classical weak solutions. In cases when the quadratic forms arise from collections of rough vector fields, we study containment relations between the degenerate Sobolev spaces and the corresponding spaces defined in terms of weak derivatives relative to the vector fields.References
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Additional Information
- Eric T. Sawyer
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
- MR Author ID: 155255
- Richard L. Wheeden
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08854
- Received by editor(s): September 6, 2007
- Published electronically: October 30, 2009
- © Copyright 2009
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 1869-1906
- MSC (2000): Primary 35B65, 35D10, 35H20, 46E35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04756-4
- MathSciNet review: 2574880