# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2018, 38(1): 75-90. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018004

## Regularity of elliptic systems in divergence form with directional homogenization

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1419, USA

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Received  March 2016 Revised  July 2017 Published  September 2017

Fund Project: This research is supported by NSFC grant 11671316.

In this paper, we study regularity of solutions of elliptic systems in divergence form with directional homogenization. Here directional homogenization means that the coefficients of equations are rapidly oscillating only in some directions. We will investigate the different regularity of solutions on directions with homogenization and without homogenization. Actually, we obtain uniform interior $W^{1, p}$ estimates in all directions and uniform interior $C^{1, γ}$ estimates in the directions without homogenization.

Citation: Rong Dong, Dongsheng Li, Lihe Wang. Regularity of elliptic systems in divergence form with directional homogenization. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (1) : 75-90. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018004
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