Hardy–Sobolev critical elliptic equations with boundary singularities
A brief survey is given to show that harmonic averages enter in a natural way in the numerical solution of various variable coefficient problems, such as in elliptic and transport equations, also of singular perturbation types. Local Green’s functions used as test functions in the Petrov-Galerkin finite element method combined with harmonic averages can be very efficient and are related to exact difference schemes.
An elliptic system in , which is invariant under the action of the group is considered. We construct a holomorphic family of finite-dimensional subrepresentations of the group in the space of solutions (Floquet solutions), such that any solution of the growth at infinity can be rewritten in the form of an integral over the family.
In this work we prove both local and global Harnack estimates for weak supersolutions to second order nonlinear degenerate parabolic partial differential equations in divergence form. We reduce the proof to an analysis of so-called hot and cold alternatives, and use the expansion of positivity together with a parabolic type of covering argument. Our proof uses only the properties of weak supersolutions. In particular, no comparison to weak solutions is needed.
The main purpose of this work is to obtain a Harnack inequality and estimates for the Green function for the general class of degenerate elliptic operators described below.