We announce a well-posedness result for the Laplace equation in weighted Sobolev spaces on polyhedral domains in $\RR^n$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The weight is the distance to the set of singular boundary points. We give a detailed sketch of the proof in three dimensions.
This paper is concerned with the regularity of solutions to linear and nonlinear evolution equations extending our findings in [22] to domains of polyhedral type. In particular, we study the smoothness in the specific scale $B^r_{τ,τ}$, $\frac{1}τ=\frac rd+\frac 1p$ of Besov spaces. The regularity in these spaces determines the approximation order that can be achieved by adaptive and other nonlinear approximation schemes. We show that for all cases under consideration the Besov regularity is high enough to justify the use of adaptive algorithms.
We prove a regularity result for the Poisson problem $-Δu = f$, $u |\_{\pa \PP} = g$ on a polyhedral domain $\PP \subset \RR^3$ using the \BK\ spaces $\Kond{m}{a}(\PP)$. These are weighted Sobolev spaces in which the weight is given by the distance to the set of edges \cite{Babu70, Kondratiev67}. In particular, we show that there is no loss of $\Kond{m}{a}$--regularity for solutions of strongly elliptic systems with smooth coefficients. We also establish a "trace theorem" for the restriction to the boundary of the functions in $\Kond{m}{a}(\PP)$.
We prove an Allard-type regularity theorem for free-boundary minimal surfaces in Lipschitz domains locally modelled on convex polyhedra. We show that if such a minimal surface is sufficiently close to an appropriate free-boundary plane, then the surface is $C^{1,α}$ graphical over this plane. We apply our theorem to prove partial regularity results for free-boundary minimizing hypersurfaces, and relative isoperimetric regions.
We are interested in the classical ill-posed Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation. One method to approximate the solution associated with compatible data consists in considering a family of regularized well-posed problems depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$. In this context, in order to prove convergence of finite elements methods, it is necessary to get regularity results of the solutions to these regularized problems which hold uniformly in $\varepsilon$. In the present work, we obtain these results in smooth domains and in 2D polygonal geometries. In presence of corners, due t…
In this note we consider regularity theory for a fractional $p$-Laplace operator which arises in the complex interpolation of the Sobolev spaces, the $H^{s,p}$-Laplacian. We obtain the natural analogue to the classical $p$-Laplacian situation, namely $C^{s+α}_{loc}$-regularity for the homogeneous equation.
The parabolic normalized p-Laplace equation is studied. We prove that a viscosity solution has a time derivative in the sense of Sobolev belonging locally to $L^2$.
We derive regularity estimates for viscosity solutions to the parabolic normalized p-Laplace. By using approximation methods and scaling arguments for the normalized p-parabolic operator, we show that the gradient of bounded viscosity solutions is locally asymptotically Lipschitz continuous when $p$ is sufficiently close to 2. In addition, we establish regularity estimates in Sobolev spaces.
We give a unified proof of Hölder regularity of weak solutions for mixed local and nonlocal $p$-Laplace type parabolic equations with the full range of exponents $1<p<\infty$. Our proof is based on the expansion of positivity together with the energy estimate and De Giorgi type lemma.
We prove the local gradient Hölder regularity of viscosity solutions to the inhomogeneous normalized $p(x)$-Laplace equation $$ -Δu-(p(x)-2)\frac{\left\langle D^{2}uDu,Du\right\rangle }{\left|Du\right|^{2}} = f(x), $$ where $p$ is Lipschitz continuous, $\inf p>1$, and $f$ is continuous and bounded.
In this note, we prove the boundary Hölder regularity for the infinity Laplace equation under a proper geometric condition. This geometric condition is quite general, and the exterior cone condition, the Reifenberg flat domains, and the corkscrew domains (including the non-tangentially accessible domains) are special cases. The key idea, following [3], is that the strong maximum principle and the scaling invariance imply the boundary Hölder regularity.
In this paper, we study the second order Sobolev regularity of solutions to the parabolic $p$-Laplace equation. For any $p$-parabolic function $u$, we show that $D(|Du|^{\frac{p-2+s}{2}}Du)$ exists as a function and belongs to $L^{2}_{\text{loc}}$ with $s>-1$ and $1<p<\infty$. The range of $s$ is sharp.
We consider interior Hölder regularity of the spatial gradient of viscosity solutions to the normalized $p(x,t)$-Laplace equation $$ u_t=\left(δ_{ij}+(p(x,t)-2)\frac{u_i u_j}{|Du|^2}\right)u_{ij} $$ with some suitable assumptions on $p(x,t)$, which arises naturally from a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game with probabilities depending on space and time.
In this paper, we obtain local Hölder regularity for bounded, weak solutions to the anisotropic $p$-Laplace equation whose prototype structure is given by $$ \sum_{i=1}^N (|u_{x_i}|^{p_i-2}u_{x_i})_{x_i}=0,$$ where $1 < p_1 \leq p_2 \leq \cdots \leq p_N < \infty$. Under an additional assumption that double truncates of the solution are sub/super solution, we obtain Hölder regularity for the anisotropic equation.
We investigate the mixed local and nonlocal parabolic $p$-Laplace equation \begin{align*} \partial_t u(x,t)-Δ_p u(x,t)+\mathcal{L}u(x,t)=0, \end{align*} where $Δ_p$ is the local $p$-Laplace operator and $\mathcal{L}$ is the nonlocal $p$-Laplace operator. Based on the combination of suitable Caccioppoli-type inequality and Logarithmic Lemma with a De Giorgi-Nash-Moser iteration, we establish the local boundedness and Hölder continuity of weak solutions for such equations.
We give an alternative proof for Hölder regularity for weak solutions of nonlocal elliptic quasilinear equations modelled on the fractional p-Laplacian where we replace the discrete De Giorgi iteration on a sequence of concentric balls by a continuous iteration. This work can be viewed as the nonlocal counterpart to the ideas developed by Tiziano Granucci.
Optimal second-order regularity in the space variables is established for solutions to Cauchy-Dirichlet problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and systems of $p$-Laplacian type, with square-integrable right-hand sides and initial data in a Sobolev space. As a consequence, generalized solutions are shown to be strong solutions. Minimal regularity on the boundary of the domain is required, though the results are new even for smooth domains. In particular, they hold in arbitrary bounded convex domains.
We prove that, given~$p>\max\left\{\frac{2n}{n+2},1\right\}$, the nonnegative almost minimizers of the nonlinear free boundary functional $$ J_p(u,Ω):=\int_Ω\Big( |\nabla u(x)|^p+χ_{\{u>0\}}(x)\Big)\,dx$$ are Lipschitz continuous.
We establish existence results for a class of mixed anisotropic and nonlocal $p$-Laplace equation with singular nonlinearities. We consider both constant and variable singular exponents. Our argument is based on an approximation method. To this end, we also discuss the necessary regularity properties of weak solutions of the associated non-singular problems. More precisely, we obtain local boundedness of subsolutions, Harnack inequality for solutions and weak Harnack inequality for supersolutions.
We prove that for $p\ge 2$ solutions of equations modeled by the fractional $p$-Laplacian improve their regularity on the scale of fractional Sobolev spaces. Moreover, under certain precise conditions, they are in $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ and their gradients are in a fractional Sobolev space as well. The relevant estimates are stable as the fractional order of differentiation $s$ reaches $1$.
Second-order estimates are established for solutions to the $p$-Laplace system with right-hand side in $L^2$. The nonlinear expression of the gradient under the divergence operator is shown to belong to $W^{1,2}$, and hence to enjoy the best possible degree of regularity. Moreover, its norm in $W^{1,2}$ is proved to be equivalent to the norm of the right-hand side in $L^2$. Our global results apply to solutions to both Dirichlet and Neumann problems, and entail minimal regularity of the boundary of the domain. In particular, our conclusions hold for arbitrary bounded convex domains. Local esti…
In a paper from 1996, D. Jerison and C. Kenig among other results provided a $H^{1/2}$ regularity result for the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation in Lipschitz domains. In this article, we adopt a Hilbertian approach to construct two Riesz bases for $L^2(\partial Ω),$ which will allow to find in a different way some of the results of D. Jerison and C. Kenig, and G. Savaré (1998) about the regularity issue of the Laplace equation.
We consider quasilinear parabolic equations with measurable coefficients when the right-hand side is a signed Radon measure with finite total mass, having $p$-Laplace type: $$u_t - \textrm{div} \, \mathbf{a}(Du,x,t) = μ\quad \textrm{in} \ Ω\times (0,T) \subset \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}.$$ In the singular range $\frac{2n}{n+1} <p \le 2-\frac{1}{n+1}$, we establish regularity estimates for the spatial gradient of solutions in the Marcinkiewicz spaces, under a suitable density condition of the right-hand side measure.
We show that local weak solutions to parabolic systems of p-Laplace type are H{ö}lder continuous in time with values in a spatial Lebesgue space and H{ö}lder continuous on almost every time line. We provide an elementary and self-contained proof building on the local higher integrability result of Kinnunen and Lewis.
In this article we investigate the temporal regularity of strong solutions to the stochastic $p$-\com{L}aplace system in the degenerate setting, $p \in [2,\infty)$, driven by a multiplicative nonlinear stochastic forcing. We establish $1/2$ time differentiability in an expontential Besov-Orlicz space for the solution process $u$. Furthermore, we prove $1/2$ time differentiability of the nonlinear gradient $|\nabla u|^{\frac{p-2}{2}} \nabla u$ in a Nikolskii space.
The central theme in this paper is the Hopf-Laplace equation, which represents stationary solutions with respect to the inner variation of the Dirichlet integral. Among such solutions are harmonic maps. Nevertheless, minimization of the Dirichlet energy among homeomorphisms often leads to mappings which are neither harmonic nor homeomorphisms. We prove that such mappings are harmonic outside of a singular set with small image. On the singular set they are locally Lipschitz, but not necessarily differentiable.
Mixed boundary value problems for the Navier-Stokes system in a polyhedral domain are considered. Different boundary conditions (in particular, Dirichlet, Neumann, slip conditions) are prescribed on the faces of a polyhedron. The authors obtain regularity results for weak solutions in weighted (and non-weighted) L_p Sobolev and Hölder spaces.
We consider the so-called \emph{discrete $p$-Laplacian}, a nonlinear difference operator that acts on functions defined on the nodes of a possibly infinite graph. We study the associated nonlinear Cauchy problem and identify the generator of the associated nonlinear semigroups. We prove higher order time regularity of the solutions. We investigate the long-time behavior of the solutions and discuss in particular finite extinction time and conservation of mass. Namely, on one hand, for small $p$ if an infinite graph satisfies some isoperimetric inequality, then the solution to the parabolic $p$…
We employ a variational approach to study the Neumann boundary value problem for the $p$-Laplacian on bounded smooth-enough domains in the metric setting, and show that solutions exist and are bounded. The boundary data considered are Borel measurable bounded functions. We also study boundary continuity properties of the solutions. One of the key tools utilized is the trace theorem for Newton-Sobolev functions, and another is an analog of the De Giorgi inequality adapted to the Neumann problem.
We study the regularity of the extremal solution $u^*$ to the singular reaction-diffusion problem $-Δ_p u = λf(u)$ in $Ω$, $u =0$ on $\partial Ω$, where $1<p<2$, $0 < λ< λ^*$, $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is a smooth bounded domain and $f$ is any positive, superlinear, increasing and (asymptotically) convex $C^1$ nonlinearity. We provide a simple proof of known $L^r$ and $W^{1,r}$ \textit{a priori} estimates for $u^*$, i.e. $u^* \in L^\infty(Ω)$ if $n \leq p+2$, $u^* \in L^{\frac{2n}{n-p-2}}(Ω)$ if $n > p+2$ and $|\nabla u^*|^{p-1} \in L^{\frac{n}{n-(p'+1)}} (Ω)$ if $n > p p'$.
The paper deals with a mixed boundary value problem for the Stokes system in a polyhedral cone. Here different boundary conditions (in particular, Dirichlet, Neumann, free surface conditions) are prescribed on the sides of the polyhedron. The authors obtain regularity results for weak solutions in weighted $L_2$ Sobolev spaces and prove point estimates of Green's matrix.
A mixed boundary value problem for the Stokes system in a polyhedral domain is considered. Here different boundary conditions (in particular, Dirichlet, Neumann, free surface conditions) are prescribed on the sides of the polyhedron. The authors prove the existence of solutions in (weighted and non-weighted) $L_p$ Sobolev spaces and obtain regularity assertions for weak solutions. The results are based on point estimates of Green's matrix.
