We prove the unique solvability in weighted Sobolev spaces of non-divergence form elliptic and parabolic equations on a half space with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. All the leading coefficients are assumed to be only measurable in the time variable and have small mean oscillations in the spatial variables. Our results can be applied to Neumann boundary value problems for {em stochastic} partial differential equations with BMO$_x$ coefficients.
We study an elliptic equation with measurable coefficients arising from photo-acoustic imaging in inhomogeneous media. We establish Holder continuity of weak solutions and obtain pointwise bounds for Greens functions subject to Dirichlet or Neumann condition.
Under various conditions, we establish Schauder estimates for both divergence and non-divergence form second-order elliptic and parabolic equations involving Holder semi-norms not with respect to all, but only with respect to some of the independent variables. A novelty of our results is that the coefficients are allowed to be merely measurable with respect to the other independent variables.
We study a multi-dimensional nonlocal active scalar equation of the form $u_t+vcdot abla u=0$ in $mathbb R^+times mathbb R^d$, where $v=Lambda^{-2+alpha} abla u$ with $Lambda=(-Delta)^{1/2}$. We show that when $alphain (0,2]$ certain radial solutions develop gradient blowup in finite time. In the case when $alpha=0$, the equations are globally well-posed with arbitrary initial data in suitable Sobolev spaces.
In this paper, we present counterexamples showing that for any $pin (1,infty)$, $p eq 2$, there is a non-divergence form uniformly elliptic operator with piecewise constant coefficients in $mathbb{R}^2$ (constant on each quadrant in $mathbb{R}^2$) for which there is no $W^2_p$ estimate. The corresponding examples in the divergence case are also discussed. One implication of these examples is that the ranges of $p$ are sharp in the recent results obtained in [4,5] for non-divergence type elliptic and parabolic equations in a half space with the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition when the coefficients do not have any regularity in a tangential direction.
We consider both divergence and non-divergence parabolic equations on a half space in weighted Sobolev spaces. All the leading coefficients are assumed to be only measurable in the time and one spatial variable except one coefficient, which is assumed to be only measurable either in the time or the spatial variable. As functions of the other variables the coefficients have small bounded mean oscillation (BMO) semi-norms. The lower-order coefficients are allowed to blow up near the boundary with a certain optimal growth condition. As a corollary, we also obtain the corresponding results for elliptic equations.
The paper is a comprehensive study of the $L_p$ and the Schauder estimates for higher-order divergence type parabolic systems with discontinuous coefficients in the half space and cylindrical domains with conormal derivative boundary condition. For the $L_p$ estimates, we assume that the leading coefficients are only bounded measurable in the $t$ variable and $VMO$ with respect to $x$. We also prove the Schauder estimates in two situations: the coefficients are Holder continuous only in the $x$ variable; the coefficients are Holder continuous in both variables.
We study boundary gradient estimates for second-order divergence type parabolic and elliptic systems in $C^{1,alpha}$ domains. The coefficients and data are assumed to be Holder in the time variable and all but one spatial variables. This type of systems arises from the problems of linearly elastic laminates and composite materials.
We prove the existence of unique solutions to the Dirichlet boundary value problems for linear second-order uniformly parabolic operators in either divergence or non-divergence form with boundary blowup low-order coefficients. The domain is possibly time varying, non-smooth, and satisfies the exterior measure condition.
We consider suitable weak solutions of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in two cases: the 4D time-dependent case and the 6D stationary case. We prove that up to the boundary, the two-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the set of singular points is equal to zero in both cases.
