On the fundamental solution of an elliptic equation in nondivergence form

Details On the fundamental solution of an elliptic equation in nondivergence form On the fundamental solution of an elliptic equation in nondivergence form

2008-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4108v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

25 pages

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We consider the existence and asymptotics for the fundamental solution of an elliptic operator in nondivergence form, ${\mathcal L}(x,\del_x)=a_{ij}(x)\del_i\del_i$, for $n\geq 3$. We assume that the coefficients have modulus of continuity satisfying the square Dini condition. For fixed $y$, we construct a solution of ${\mathcal L}Z_y(x)=0$ for $0<|x-y|<\e$ with explicit leading order term which is $O(|x-y|^{2-n}e^{I(x,y)})$ as $x\to y$, where $I(x,y)$ is given by an integral and plays an important role for the fundamental solution: if $I(x,y)$ approaches a finite limit as $x\to y$, then we can solve ${\mathcal L}(x,\del_x)F(x,y)=\de(x-y)$, and $F(x,y)$ is asymptotic as $x\to y$ to the fundamental solution for the constant coefficient operator ${\mathcal L}(y,\del_x)$. On the other hand, if $I(x,y)\to -\infty$ as $x\to y$ then the solution $Z_y(x)$ violates the "extended maximum principle" of Gilbarg & Serrin \cite{GS} and is a distributional solution of ${\mathcal L}(x,\del_x)Z_y(x)=0$ for $|x-y|<\e$ although $Z_y$ is not even bounded as $x\to y$.

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