Oblique derivative problems in Lipschitz domains: II. Discontinuous boundary data.
We prove some quantitatively sharp estimates concerning the Δ₂ and ∇₂ conditions for functions which generalize known ones. The sharp forms arise in the connection between Orlicz space theory and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
There is a long history of studying nonlinear boundary value problems for elliptic differential equations in a domain with sufficiently smooth boundary. In this paper, we show that the gradient of the solution of such a problem is continuous when a directional derivative is prescribed on the boundary of a Lipschitz domain for a large class of nonlinear equations under weak conditions on the data of the problem. The class of equations includes linear equations with fairly rough coefficients as well...
It is well-known that the “standard” oblique derivative problem, in , on ( is the unit inner normal) has a unique solution even when the boundary condition is not assumed to hold on the entire boundary. When the boundary condition is modified to satisfy an obliqueness condition, the behavior at a single boundary point can change the uniqueness result. We give two simple examples to demonstrate what can happen.
Minimizers of a functional with exponential growth are shown to be smooth. The techniques developed for power growth are not applicable to the exponential case.
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