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September  2013, 12(5): 1881-1905. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1881

## Parabolic and elliptic problems with general Wentzell boundary condition on Lipschitz domains

 1 University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 70377, San Juan PR 00936-8377, United States

Received  April 2011 Revised  September 2012 Published  January 2013

We show that on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset R^N$ with Lipschitz continuous boundary $\partial \Omega$, weak solutions of the elliptic equation $\lambda u-Au=f$ in $\Omega$ with the boundary conditions $-\gamma\Delta_\Gamma u+\partial_\nu^a u+\beta u=g$ on $\partial \Omega$ are globally Hölder continuous on $\bar \Omega$. Here $A$ is a uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients, $\Delta_\Gamma$ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $\partial \Omega$, $\partial_\nu^a u$ denotes the conormal derivative of $u$, $\lambda,\gamma>0$ are real numbers and $\beta$ is a bounded measurable function on $\partial Omega$. We also obtain that a realization of the operator $A$ in $C(\bar \Omega)$ with the general Wentzell boundary conditions $(Au)|_{\partial \Omega}-\gamma\Delta_\Gamma u+\partial_\nu^a u+\beta u=g$ on $\partial \Omega$ generates a strongly continuous compact semigroup. Some analyticity results of the semigroup are also discussed.
Citation: Mahamadi Warma. Parabolic and elliptic problems with general Wentzell boundary condition on Lipschitz domains. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (5) : 1881-1905. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1881
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Fields, 106 (1996), 521.  doi: 10.1007/s004400050074.  Google Scholar [16] D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order,", Springer-Verlag, (2001).  doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-61798-0.  Google Scholar [17] G. R. Goldstein, Derivation and physical interpretation of general boundary conditions,, Adv. Differential Equations, 11 (2006), 457.   Google Scholar [18] D. Jerison and C. E. Kenig, Boundary value problems on Lipschitz domains,, MAA Stud. Math., 23 (1982), 1.   Google Scholar [19] J. Jost, "Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis,", Fifth edition. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, (2008).  doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21298-7.  Google Scholar [20] O. A. Ladyzhenskaya and N. N. Ural鈥檛seva, "Linear and Quasilinear Elliptic Equations,", Mathematics in Science and Engineering. 46. New York-London: Academic Press, (1968).   Google Scholar [21] J. Maly and W. P. Ziemer, "Fine Regurality of Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations,", Providence, (1997).   Google Scholar [22] C. B. Morrey Jr, Second order elliptic equations in several variables and Hölder continuity,, Math. Z., 72 (1959), 146.  doi: 10.1007/BF01162944.  Google Scholar [23] J. Moser, A new proof of the de Giorgi's theorem concerning the regularity problem for elliptic differential equations,, Commu. Pure Appl. Math., 13 (1960), 457.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160130308.  Google Scholar [24] M. K. V. Murthy and G. Stampacchia, Boundary value problems for some degenerate elliptic operators,, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., 80 (1968), 1.  doi: 10.1007/BF02413623.  Google Scholar [25] R. Nittka, Regularity of solutions of linear second order elliptic and parabolic boundary value problems on Lipschitz domains,, J. Differential Equations, 251 (2011), 860.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.05.019.  Google Scholar [26] El M. Ouhabaz, "Analysis of Heat Equations on Domains,", Lond. Math. Soc. Monographs Series, (2005).   Google Scholar [27] R. S. Phillips, The adjoint semi-group,, Pacific J. Math., 5 (1955), 269.  doi: 10.2140/pjm.1955.5.269.  Google Scholar [28] G. Stampacchia, Problemi al contorno ellittici con dati discontinui dotati di soluzioni Hölderiane,, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., 51 (1960), 1.  doi: 10.1007/BF02410941.  Google Scholar [29] M. E. Taylor, "Partial Differential Equations. I. Basic Theory,", Texts Appl. Math., 23 (1996).  doi: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9320-7.  Google Scholar [30] J. L. Vázquez and E. Vitillaro, Heat equation with dynamical boundary conditions of reactive-diffusive type,, J. Differential Equations, 250 (2011), 2143.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.12.012.  Google Scholar [31] M. Warma, "The Laplacian with General Robin Boundary Conditions,", Ph.D Dissertation, (2002).   Google Scholar [32] M. Warma, Wentzell-Robin boundary conditions on $C[0,1]$,, Semigroup Forum, 66 (2003), 162.  doi: 10.1007/s002330010124.  Google Scholar [33] M. Warma, The Robin and Wentzell-Robin Laplacians on Lipschitz domains,, Semigroup Forum, 73 (2006), 10.  doi: 10.1007/s00233-006-0617-2.  Google Scholar [34] M. Warma, Analyticity on $L^1$ of the heat semigroup with Wentzell boundary conditions,, Arch. Math. (Basel), 94 (2010), 85.  doi: 10.1007/s00013-009-0068-6.  Google Scholar
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