# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2015, 14(2): 407-419. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.407

## Second order elliptic operators in $L^2$ with first order degeneration at the boundary and outward pointing drift

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Casorati”, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia 2 Dipartimento di Matematica E. De Giorgi, Università del Salento, 73100, Lecce 3 Dipartimento di Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi”, Università del Salento, C.P. 193, Lecce, I-73100 4 Department of Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe

Received  December 2013 Revised  July 2014 Published  December 2014

We study second order elliptic operators whose diffusion coefficients degenerate at the boundary in first order and whose drift term strongly points outward. It is shown that these operators generate analytic semigroups in $L^2$ where they are equipped with their natural domain without boundary conditions. Hence, the corresponding parabolic problem can be solved with optimal regularity. In a previous work we had treated the case of inward pointing drift terms.
Citation: Simona Fornaro, Giorgio Metafune, Diego Pallara, Roland Schnaubelt. Second order elliptic operators in $L^2$ with first order degeneration at the boundary and outward pointing drift. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2015, 14 (2) : 407-419. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.407
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