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Regularity of the Maxwell equations
As is well-known, the Maxwell equations can be phrased vectorially as,
\begin{align}
\nabla \cdot \mathbf E &= \frac{\rho_f}{\varepsilon}, &\text{Gauss's law,}\\\
\nabla \cdot \mathbf ...
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What would the best treatment of Gehring's lemma look like?
In a course about elliptic regularity probably one sooner or later stubles into the reverse Holder inequalities, and has to introduce the Gehring lemma, which in one of its many versions improves a ...
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Global regularity for Neumann problem
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d $ be a bounded open subset ($d\in \mathbb{N}$) and denote $\partial\Omega$ its boundary which we assume to be Lipschitz. The classical inhomogeneous Neumann problem ...
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Upper bound Hölder norm of the solution to the non-linear PDE $\partial_t u (t, x) = \Delta_x \{ |\sigma (u (t, x))|^2 u(t, x) \}$
We fix $T>0$ and let $\mathbb T := [0, T]$. Let $\sigma : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ belong to the Hölder space $C^{1, \alpha}_b (\mathbb R)$ for some $\alpha \in (0, 1)$. Let $u : \mathbb T \times \...
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Reference Request for global Hölder continuity of solutions to elliptic PDEs
This is question that was also posted on MathStackExchange Link, where it was suggested I post this question on MathOverflow. Please note that the answer given in Link does not help as I do not have ...
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Asking for Advices for Choosing a Ph.D thesis problem (in PDE area)
I'm a first year phd student in Germany. I've started my phd study one year ago and I'm currently confused about the topic I've chosen. The program is in the area of PDEs, and actually I didn't learn ...
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optimal regularity for the Neumann heat equation on Lipschitz domains
$\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb R}$Let $\Omega\subset\R^d$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain, possibly non-convex (but not too nasty either, whatever that means). I am looking for well-posedness and optimal ...
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Regularity result for the boundary value problem for the heat equation
Let $\Omega$ be an open bounded subset of $\mathbb R^N$.
Let $u_0 \in L^\infty(\Omega)$ and $f \in L^\infty((0,T)\times\Omega).$
Consider the following boundary value problem for the heat equation:
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Caccioppoli-Leray Inequality for De Giorgi's theorem proof
I am studying De Giorgi's proof of Holder continuity of solutions of elliptic equations with bounded measurable coefficients.
This is the translation of the original paper
De Giorgi paper
At page ...
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Regularity up to the boundary for the Poisson problem
It seems that the following assertion is widely accepted:
For $k\in\mathbb N$, $p\geq 2$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ bounded with $\partial\Omega\in C^{k+2}$ and $f\in W^{k,p}(\Omega)$, the weak ...
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Nonsmooth version of Hopf boundary point lemma
Let
$$
Lu=-a_{ij}(x)\partial_{ij}u+b_i(x)\partial_i u
$$
be a uniformly elliptic operator, with $A(x)=(a_{ij}(x))$ positive-definite.
Here I'm only considering smooth coefficients, and the domain $\...
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Reference to a Classical Regularity Theorem
(Edited)
I need a reference to the following result:
If $u \in H^2(B_1^+) \cap {\rm Lip}(B_1^+)$ satisfies
\begin{cases}
{\rm div}(F(x,u,\nabla u)) = F_0(x,u,\nabla u) \quad & {\rm in} \ B_1^+ ...
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Techniques to estimate PDE which are elliptic in some directions and degenerate in others
I am interested in a family of PDE which have defeated my (admittedly rather naive) attempts to prove any regularity or stability estimates. These are systems of PDE which are elliptic in some ...
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Elliptic regularity Schauder estimates with Dirichlet/Neumann boundary conditions
Consider the linear elliptic equation $Lu = 0$, where $L$ is a second degree elliptic operator with smooth coefficients on a bounded domain $\overline{\Omega} \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, where $\Omega$ is ...
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Non symmetric coefficient matrix for elliptic PDE
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a domain and consider the PDE in divergence form
$$ D_i(a_{i,j}D_ju)=0 \tag{1}$$
where $a_{i,j}(x)$ are measurable and satisfly the uniform ellipticity ...
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Alternative proof of Liouville theorem for harmonic functions
From Prove Liouville theorem without using mean value property the following question arises:
To prove the Liouville theorem
If $u$ is harmonic on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|\nabla u|^2 ...
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Regularity and normal trace of "Hdiv" measures
In order to fix the ideas let me consider an open, smooth, bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^d$.
I am wondering what can be said about a vector-valued measure $v\in \mathcal M^d(\Omega)$ with ...
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Moser estimates?
Consider $u$, an $L^2$ solution to the uniformly elliptic equation $(\partial_t^2 + L)u = 0$ on a ball $B_1$ of radius 1 centered at $(t_0, x_0)$, say, where $t$ can be treated as a "time" variable. I ...
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$C^{1,2}$-regularity of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation/Langevin equation
Consider a Fokker-Planck equation:
$$
\partial_t m(t,x,v) + v \cdot \nabla_x m(t,x,v) + \nabla_v\cdot \big(b(t,x,v) m(t,x,v) \big) - \frac{1}{2} \Delta_v m(t,x,v) ~=~ 0,
$$
with initial condition ...
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Continuity + $H^1$ + Laplacian control $ \implies$ local Lipschitz property
Consider a continuous $H^1$ function $u$ on a bounded open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. We additionally have that $|\Delta u|^2 \leq c |\nabla u|^2$ pointwise on $\Omega \setminus \Sigma$, where ...
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Upper bound Hölder norm of the solution to the linear PDE $\partial_t u (t, x) = \Delta_x \{ |\sigma (x)|^2 u(t, x) \}$
Previously, I asked the same question for a non-linear PDE, but I have got no answer. Below, I consider the linear counterpart it.
We fix $T>0$ and let $\mathbb T := [0, T]$. Let $\sigma : \mathbb ...
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Visualization of an oscillation lemma
How can one visualize Theorem 4.2 on page 31 of this paper by Seregin, Silvestre, Šverák and Zlatoš?
On the other hand, I have a clear visualization of a related result about how oscillation decay ...
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$H^2$-elliptic regularity (up to the boundary) for operators with lower order terms for Lipschitz/convex domains
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain which is Lipschitz or convex. Given an elliptic operator of the form
$$\langle Au, v \rangle = a_{ij}u_{x_i}v_{x_j} + b_i u_{x_i}v + cuv$$
are there any elliptic ...
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Elliptic regularity of harmonic forms in $L^1$
$\newcommand{\M}{M}$
This is a cross-post. I am looking for a reference for the regularity of harmonic forms which belong to $L^1(M)$.
Explicitly, let $\M$ be a smooth oriented Riemannian manifold.
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Moser/Schauder estimates for coercive boundary conditions
Consider the uniformly elliptic equation $(\partial_t^2 + L)u = 0$ on $(0, \infty) \times \Omega$, where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, and $L$ is a ...
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Elliptic regularity and inhomogeneous Neumann boundary condition
Consider a harmonic function $u$ defined on $D : = \{ (x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^2 | (x, y) \in \overline{B(0, 2)}, y \geq 0\}$, that is, the closed upper half ball centered at $0$ and radius $2$. Let $u$ ...
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Regularity up to the boundary of solutions of the heat equation
Given the heat problem:
$$\begin{cases}
\frac{d}{dt}u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t) & \forall (x,t)\in \Omega\times(0,T) \\
u(x,0)=u_0(x) & \forall x\in\Omega \\
u(x,t)=0 & \forall x\in\partial\...
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Parabolic theory for singular coefficients on bounded domains (Reference Request)
In Evans, the theory for linear PDE of parabolic type with bounded coefficients is developed. There are nice results such as long-existence of weak solutions and the parabolic regularity theorems.
Is ...
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$L_p$ estimate in mixed boundary problem for elliptic equation
Let $Q$ be convex polygon, $\Gamma$ be a portion of boundary
$\partial Q$ and $H^1_\Gamma(Q)=\lbrace u\in H^1(Q):
u|_\Gamma=0\rbrace$. For $f\in (L_2(Q))^2$ consider the problem
$$
\int_Q A(x)\nabla u ...
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While doing Lp estimates, is the constant C monotonically increasing with respect to the parameters it depends on?
For example, consider the third boundary value problem:
\begin{align}
&\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\sum_{i,j=1}^n a_{ij}(x,t) \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x_i \partial x_j} + \sum_{i=1}^n ...
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Regularity theory for parabolic PDEs in fractional Sobolev spaces
I am trying studying on my own parabolic PDEs throughout the book "Linear and Quasi-linear Equations of Parabolic Type" by Vsevolod A. Solonnikov, Nina Uraltseva, Olga Ladyzhenskaya and the ...
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$L^\infty(\Omega)$-regularity for strongly damped wave equation
I am interested in the following IBVP for the strongly damped wave equation:
\begin{equation}
u_{tt}-c^2\Delta u-b\Delta u_t+eu_t=f(x,t) \quad \text{in} \ \Omega \times (0,T), \\
u=0 \quad \text{on} \ ...
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Estimate for Laplace equation with Neumann boundary on manifold with corner
Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary and corner, i.e. locally modelled in $[0,\infty)^1\times \mathbb R^{n-1}$ or $[0,\infty)^k\times \mathbb R^{n-k}$, where $n=\dim(M)$.
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Properties of "potential vector field" in Helmholtz decomposition
It is a well known fact that given a vector field $F$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$, this can be decomposed as
$$ F= \nabla V+ \nabla \times R$$
with $V$ a potential and $R$ another vector field. These components ...
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Regularity for a div-curl system
Let $Q = [0,1]^3$ be the unit cube in $ \mathbb{R}^3$, and let $U \subset Q$ be a simply-connected subdomain with smooth boundary. Suppose $g \: \colon Q \to \mathbb{R}^3$ is a non-negative smooth ...
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