# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2015, 8(3): 475-496. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.475

## Higher $L^p$ regularity for vector fields that satisfy divergence and rotation constraints in dual Sobolev spaces, and application to some low-frequency Maxwell equations

 1 Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Mohrenstraße 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Received  October 2013 Revised  June 2014 Published  October 2014

We show that $L^p$ vector fields over a Lipschitz domain are integrable to higher exponents if their generalized divergence and rotation can be identified with bounded linear operators acting on standard Sobolev spaces. A Div-Curl Lemma-type argument provides compact embedding results for such vector fields. We use these tools to investigate the regularity of the solution to the low-frequency approximation of the Maxwell equations in time-harmonic regime. We focus on the weak formulation `in H' of the problem, in a reference geometrical setting allowing for material heterogeneities and nonsmooth interfaces.
Citation: Pierre-Étienne Druet. Higher $L^p$ regularity for vector fields that satisfy divergence and rotation constraints in dual Sobolev spaces, and application to some low-frequency Maxwell equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2015, 8 (3) : 475-496. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.475
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Ring, Optimal control of the thermistor problem,, SIAM J. Control Optim., 48 (2010), 3449.  doi: 10.1137/080736259.  Google Scholar [16] D. Hömberg and E. Rocca, A model for resistance welding including phase transitions and Joule heating,, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 34 (2011), 2077.  doi: 10.1002/mma.1505.  Google Scholar [17] D. Jerison and C. Kenig, The inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem in Lipschitz domains,, J. Functional Analysis, 130 (1995), 161.  doi: 10.1006/jfan.1995.1067.  Google Scholar [18] F. Jochmann, A compactness result for vector fields with divergence and curl in $L^q(\Omega)$ involving mixed boundary conditions,, Applicable Analysis, 66 (1997), 189.  doi: 10.1080/00036819708840581.  Google Scholar [19] O. Klein, P. Philip and J. Sprekels, Modelling and simulation of sublimation growth in SiC bulk single crystals,, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 6 (2004), 295.  doi: 10.4171/IFB/101.  Google Scholar [20] A. Kufner, O. John and S. Fučik, Function Spaces,, Academia Prague, (1977).   Google Scholar [21] O. Ladyzhenskaja and V. Solonnikov, Solutions of some non-stationary problems of magnetohydrodynamics for a viscous incompressible fluid,, Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklov, 59 (1960), 115.   Google Scholar [22] N. Meyers, An $L^p$-estimate for the gradient of solutions of second order elliptic divergence equations,, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa, 17 (1963), 189.   Google Scholar [23] P. Monk, Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations,, Clarendon press, (2003).  doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508885.001.0001.  Google Scholar [24] R. Picard, An elementary proof for a compact embedding result in generalized electromagnetic theory,, Math. Z., 187 (1984), 151.  doi: 10.1007/BF01161700.  Google Scholar [25] R. Picard, On the low-frequency asymptotics in electromagnetic theory,, J. Reine Angew. Math., 354 (1984), 50.  doi: 10.1515/crll.1984.354.50.  Google Scholar [26] R. Picard and A. 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