Volume 7, Number 3, December 2006, pp. 499-513
Dian K. Palagachev


Key words:
Uniformly elliptic operator, Poincaré problem, Neutral vector field, Strong solution, a priori estimates, Lp-Sobolev spaces.
Mathematices Subject Classification: Primary: 35J25, 35R25; Secondary: 35B45, 35R05, 35H20
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Abstract:
A degenerate oblique derivative problem is studied for uniformly elliptic operators with low regular coefficients in the framework of Sobolev's classes W2;p(Ω) for arbitrary p > 1: The boundary operator is prescribed in terms of a directional derivative with respect to the vector field ℓ that becomes tangential to αΩ at the points of some non-empty subset ε ⊂ αΩ and is directed outwards Ω on αΩ ∖ ε: Under quite general assumptions of the behaviour of ℓ; we derive a priori estimates for the W2;p(Ω) -strong solutions for any p ∈ (1,∞):
W2,p-a priori estimates for the neutral Poincaré problem