Weighted Sobolev Spaces And Degenerate Elliptic Equations

WEIGHTED SOBOLEV SPACES AND DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS.

Weighted Sobolev Spaces and Degenerate Elliptic Equations

In various applications, we can meet boundary value problems for elliptic equations whose ellipticity is disturbed in the sense that some degeneration or singularity appears. This bad behavior can be caused by the coefficients of the corresponding differential operator as well as by the solution itself. There are several very concrete problems in various practices which lead to such differential equations, such as glaciology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, flows through porous media, differential geometry, celestial mechanics, climatology, and reaction-diffusion problems, among others. This book is based on research by the author on degenerate elliptic equations. This book will be a useful reference source for graduate students and researchers interested in differential equations.

Weighted Inequalities and Degenerate Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Various weighted inequalities and weighted function spaces relevant to degenerate partial differential equations are studied. The results are applied to degenerate second order divergence form elliptic equations and systems to establish continuity of weak solutions. The methods used allow the consideration of very general classes of weights. In particular the weights are characterized for several Sobolev inequalities in terms of weighted capacities, a theorem is proven for weighted reverse Holder inequalities and a continuity estimate is established for certain weighted Sobolev spaces. (Author).