Regularity of a class of degenerate elliptic equations
Song, Qiaozhen1 ; Lu, Ying2 ; Shen, Jianzhong3 ; Wang, Lihe4
1 College of Science Xi’an Jiaotong University       Shaanxi, 710049, China
2 Business School Jilin University Jilin, 130012, China
3 College of Science Xi’an Jiaotong University Shaanxi, 710049, China
4 Department of Mathematics University of Iowa IA 52246, USA
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 10 (2011) no. 3, pp. 645-667.

In the present paper we establish the W 1,p type estimates for the weak solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations. The optimal estimates are obtained by introducing the intrinsic metric that is associated with the geometry of the operator and then using the compactness method.

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Classification : 35J70, 35H20
Song, Qiaozhen 1 ; Lu, Ying 2 ; Shen, Jianzhong 3 ; Wang, Lihe 4

1 College of Science Xi’an Jiaotong University       Shaanxi, 710049, China
2 Business School Jilin University Jilin, 130012, China
3 College of Science Xi’an Jiaotong University Shaanxi, 710049, China
4 Department of Mathematics University of Iowa IA 52246, USA 
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Song, Qiaozhen; Lu, Ying; Shen, Jianzhong; Wang, Lihe. Regularity of a class of degenerate elliptic equations. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 10 (2011) no. 3, pp. 645-667. http://www.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2011_5_10_3_645_0/

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