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Positivity and anti-maximum principles for elliptic operators with mixed boundary conditions

Catherine Bandle, Joachim von Below, Wolfgang Reichel (2008)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We consider linear elliptic equations - Δ u + q ( x ) u = λ u + f in bounded Lipschitz domains D N with mixed boundary conditions u / n = σ ( x ) λ u + g on D . The main feature of this boundary value problem is the appearance of λ both in the equation and in the boundary condition. In general we make no assumption on the sign of the coefficient σ ( x ) . We study positivity principles and anti-maximum principles. One of our main results states that if σ is somewhere negative, q 0 and D q ( x ) d x > 0 then there exist two eigenvalues λ - 1 , λ 1 such the positivity principle...

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