In this note the well-posedness of the Dirichlet problem (1.2) below is proved in the class $H_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ for all $1<p<\infty$ and, as a consequence, the Hölder regularity of the solution $u$. $ℒ$ is an elliptic second order operator with discontinuous coefficients $\left(VMO\right)$ and the lower order terms belong to suitable Lebesgue spaces.

Let $K\subset {ℝ}^m$ ($m\ge 2$) be a compact set; assume that each ball centered on the boundary $B$ of $K$ meets $K$ in a set of positive Lebesgue measure. Let $C_0^{\left(1\right)}$ be the class of all continuously differentiable real-valued functions with compact support in ${ℝ}^m$ and denote by ${\sigma }_m$ the area of the unit sphere in ${ℝ}^m$. With each $\varphi \in C_0^{\left(1\right)}$ we associate the function $$W_K\varphi \left(z\right)=\frac{1}{{\sigma }_m}\underset{{ℝ}^m\setminus K}{\to }\int \mathrm{g}rad\varphi \left(x\right)·\frac{z-x}{{|z-x|}^m}x$$ of the variable $z\in K$ (which is continuous in $K$ and harmonic in $K\setminus B$). $W_K\varphi$ depends only on the restriction ${\varphi |}_B$ of $\varphi$ to the boundary $B$ of $K$. This gives rise to a linear operator $W_K$ acting from...