Fanzon, Silvio and Palombaro, Mariapia (2017) Optimal lower exponent for the higher gradient integrability of solutions to two-phase elliptic equations in two dimensions. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 56 (137). ISSN 0944-2669

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Abstract

We study the higher gradient integrability of distributional solutions u to the equation div(σ∇u) = 0 in dimension two, in the case when the essential range of σ consists of only two elliptic matrices, i.e., σ ∈ {σ1,σ2} a.e. in Ω. In [9], for every pair of elliptic matrices σ1 and σ2 exponents pσ1,σ2 ∈ (2,+∞) and qσ1,σ2 ∈ (1,2) have been found so that if u ∈ W1,qσ1,σ2(Ω) is solution to the elliptic equation then ∇u ∈ Lpσ1,σ2(Ω) and the optimality of the upper exponent pσ1,σ2 has been proved. In this paper we complement the above result by proving the optimality of the lower exponent qσ1,σ2. Precisely, we show that for every arbitrarily small δ, one can find a particular microgeometry, i.e. an arrangement of the sets σ-1(σ1) and σ-1(σ2), for which there exists a solution u to the corresponding elliptic equation such that ∇u ∈ Lqσ1,σ2-δ, but ∇u Ɇ Lqσ1,σ2-δ. The existence of such optimal microgeometries is achieved by convex integration methods, adapting to the present setting the geometric constructions provided in [2] for the isotropic case.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Mathematics
Research Centres and Groups:	Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2017 10:32
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2017 12:58
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/69538

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