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The Uniformly Parabolic Equations of Higher Order with Discontinuous Data in Generalized Morrey Spaces and Elliptic Equations in Unbounded Domains

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Tair Gadjiev and Konul Suleymanova

Submitted: 20 October 2020 Reviewed: 23 February 2021 Published: 22 March 2021

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.96781

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Abstract

We study the regularity of the solutions of the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for linear uniformly parabolic equations of higher order with vanishing mean oscillation (VMO) coefficients. We prove continuity in generalized parabolic Morrey spaces Mp,φ of sublinear operators generated by the parabolic Calderon-Zygmund operator and by the commutator of this operator with bounded mean oscillation (BMO) functions. We obtain strong solution belongs to the generalized Sobolev-Morrey space Wp,φm,1∘Q. Also we consider elliptic equation in unbounded domains.

Keywords

  • higher order parabolic equations
  • generalized Morrey spaces
  • sublinear operators
  • Calderon-Zygmund integrals
  • VMO
  • Cauchy-Dirichlet problem
  • elliptic equations
  • unbounded domain

1. Introduction

We consider the higher order linear Cauchy-Dirichlet problem in Q=Ω×0T, being a cylinder in Rn+1, ΩRn be a bounded domain 0<T<

utαm,βmaαβxtDαβuxt=fxt,a.e.inQE1
uxt=0onpQ,E2

where pQ=∂Ω×0TΩ×t=0 stands for the parabolic boundary of Q and Dαβ=αx1α1,,xnαnβy1β1,,ynβn, α=k=1nαk, β=k=1nβk.

The unique strong solvability of this type problem was proved in [1]. In [2] the regularity of the solution in the Morrey spaces Lp,λRn+1 with p1, λ0n+2 and also its Hölder regularity was studied. In [3] Nakai extend these studies on generalized Morrey spaces Mp,φRn+1 with a weight φ satisfying the integral condition

rφassdsar,aRn+1,r>0.

The generalized Morrey space is then defined to be the set of all fLp,locRn+1 such that

fMp,φRn+1=supE1φE1EEfxpdx1p,

where the supremum is taken over all parabolic balls E with respect to the parabolic distance.

The main results connected with these spaces is the following celebrated lemma: let DfLp,nλ even locally, with nλ<p, then u is Holder continuous of exponent α=1nλp. This result has found many applications in theory elliptic and parabolic equations. In [2] showed boundedness of the maximal operator in Lp,λRn+1 that allows them to prove continuity in these spaces of some classical integral operators. So was put the beginning of the study of the generalized Morrey spaces Mp,φ,p>1 with φ belonging to various classes of weight functions. In [3] proved boundedness of maximal and Calderon-Zygmund operators in Mp,φ imposing suitable integral and doubling conditions on φ. These results allow to study the regularity of the solutions of various linear elliptic and parabolic value problems in Mp,φ (see [4, 5, 6]). Here we consider a supremum condition on the weight which is optimal and ensure the boundedness of the maximal operator in Mp,φ. We use maximal inequality to obtain the Calderon-Zygmund type estimate for the gradient of the solution of the problem (1) and (2) in the Mp,φ.

The results presented here are a natural extension of the previous paper [7] to parabolic equations. Here we study the boundedness of the sublinear operators, generated by Calderon-Zygmund operators in generalized Morrey spaces and the regularity of the solutions of higher order uniformly elliptic boundary value problem in local generalized Morrey spaces where domain is bounded. Also hear we study higher order uniformly elliptic boundary value problem where domain is unbounded.

In paper [8] Byun, Palagachev and Wang is study the regularity problem for parabolic equation in classical Lebesgue classes and of Byun, Palagchev and Softova [9, 10] where the problem studied in weighted Lebesgue and Orlicz spaces with a Muckenhoupt weight and the classical Morrey spaces Lp,λQ with λ0n+2.

In papers [11, 12] the authors studied second order linear elliptic and parabolic equations with VMO coefficients.

Denote by a the coefficient axt=aαβxt:QMn×n and by fxt nonhomogeneous term. Suppose that the operator is uniformly parabolic.

The paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we introduce some notations and give the definition of the generalized Morrey spaces Mp,φQ. In section 3 we study sublinear operators generated by parabolic singular integrals in generalized Morrey spaces. In section 4 we is consider sublinear operators generated by non-singular integrals, in section 5 singular and non-singular integrals in generalized Morrey spaces. In section 6 we consider uniformly parabolic equations of higher order with VMO coefficients and proved regularity of solutions. In section 7 we study uniformly elliptic equations in unbounded domains.

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2. Some notation and definition

The following notations are used in this paper:

x=xt,y=yτRn+1=Rn×Rn,R+n+1=Rn×R+;x=xxntD+n+1=Rn1×R+×R+,Dn+1=Rn1×R×R+;

is the Euclidean metric, x=i=1nxi2+t212; Brx=yRn:xy<r, Br=crn; Irxt=yRn+1:xy<rtτ<r2,Irxt=crn+2; Qr=IrxτQ for each xτQ, 2Irxτ=I2rxτ.

Sn is the unit sphere in Rn+1;

Diu=uxi,Du=D1uDnu,ut=ut;Dαβu=αβux1α1xnαny1β1ynβn

the letter C is used for various positive constants.

In the following, besides the standard parabolic metric ρxt=maxxt12. We use the equivalent one

ρxt=x2+x4+4t2212

considered by Fabes and Riviere in [13]. The topology induced by ρxt consists of the ellipsoids

Erx=yRn+1:xy2r2+tτ2r4<1,Er=Crn+2,E1xB1x.

It is easy to see that the this metrics ore equivalent. In fact, for each Er there exist parabolic cylinders I¯ and I¯ with measure comparable to rn+2 such that I¯ErI¯.

Let Q=Ω×0T,T>0, be a cylinder in R+n+1. We give the definitions of the functional spaces that we are going to use. Let aL1,loc(Rn+1 and let aEr=Er1Eraydy be the mean value of the integral of a. Denote

ηaR=suprR1ErErfyfErdyforeveryR>0,

where Er ranges over all ellipsoids in Rn+1. We say aBMO (bounded mean oscillation [14]) if

a=supR>0ηαR

is finite. is a norm in a BMO constant functions.

We say aVMO (vanishing mean oscillation) [14] if aBMO and

limR0ηaR=0

ηaR is called the VMO-modulus of a. For any bounded cylinder Q we define BMOQ and VMOQ taking aL1Q and Qr=QErx,xQ, instead of Er in the definition above. If a function aBMO or VMO, it is possible to extend the function in the whole of Rn+1 preserving its BMO-norm or VMO-modulus, respectively (see [15]). Any bounded uniformly continuous BUC function f with modulus of continuity ωfR belongs to VMO with ηfR=ωfR. Besides, BMO and VMO also contain discontinuous functions, and the following example shows the inclusion Wn+21Rn+1VMOBMO.

Example 2.1. We have that fx=logρxtBMO\VMO;sinfxBMOLRn+1;fαx=logρ(xt)αVMO for any α01;fαWn+21Rn+1 for α011n+2;fαWn+21Rn+1 for α11n+21.

Let φ:Rn+1×R+R+ be a measurable function and p1. The generalized parabolic Morrey space Mp,φRn+1 consists of all fLp,locRn+1 such that

fp,φ;Rn+1=supxrRn+1×R+φ1xrrn2Erxfypdy1p<.

The space Mp,φQ consists of LpQ functions provided the following norm is finite

fp,φ;Q=supxrRn+1×R+φ1xrrn2Qrxfypdy1p.

The generalized weak parabolic Morrey space WM1,αRn+1 consists of all measurable functions such that

fWM1,αRn+1=supxrRn+1×R+φ1xrrn2fWL1Erx,

where WL1 denotes the weak L1 space. The generalized Sobolev-Morrey space Wp,φ2m,1Q,p1, consists of all Sobolev functions UWp2m,1Q with distributional derivatives DtlDxsuMp,φQ,02l+s2m, endowed by the norm

uWp,φ2m,1Q=utp,φ;Q+δ2mDsup,φ;Q.

We also define the space

W0p,φ2m,1Q=uWp,φ2m,1Q:ux=0xQ,uW0p,φ2m,1Q=uWp,φm,1Q,

where Q means the parabolic boundary Ω∂Ω×0T. In problem (1) and (2) the coefficient matrix axt=aα,βxti,j=1n, α,β=m satisfies

γ>0γα=mξα2α=mβ=maα,βxtξαξβ,E3

for a.e. xtQ,ξRn,ξ=ξαα=mRN, N–number different multiindeks with length equal to m, aα,βxt=aβ,αxt, which implies aα,βxtLQ.

Theorem 2.1.(Main results) LetaxtVMOQwithηα,β=i,j=1nηαβijsatisfy(3), and, for eachp1,letuxtW0p2m,1Qbe a strong solution(1) and (2). IffMp,φQwithφxrbeing a measurable positive function satisfying

r1+lnsressinfs<ξ<φxξξn+2psn+2p+1dsxrE4

xrQ×R+,thenuxtW0p,φ2m,1Qand

uW0p,φ2m,1QCfp,φ;QE5

with C=Cnpγ∂ΩTηαa;Q.

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3. Sublinear operators generated by parabolic singular integrals in generalized Morrey spaces

Let fL1Rn+1 be a function with a compact support and aBMO. For any xsuppf define the sublinear operators T and Ta such that

TfxcRn+1fyρn+2xydy,E6
TafxcRn+1axayfyρn+2xydy,E7

This operators are bounded in LpRn+1 satisfy the estimates

TfLpCfLp,TafLpCafLp,E8

where constants independent of a and f. Let we have the Hardy operator Hgr=1r0rgsds,r>0.

Theorem 3.1.(see [12]) The inequality

esssupr>0ωrHgrAesssupr>0ϑrgrE9

holds for all non-increasing functions g:R+R+ if and only if

A=Csupr>0ωrr0rdsesssup0<ξ<sϑξ<E10

Lemma 3.1.(see [12]) LetfLp,locRn+1,p1,be such that

rsn+2p1fLpEsγ0ds<x0rRn+1×R+E11

and letTbe a sublinear operator satisfying(6).

i. Ifp>1andTis bounded onLpRn+1, then

TfLpErx0crn+2p2rsn+2p1fLpEsγ0dsE12

ii. Ifp=1andTis bounded fromL1Rn+1onWL1Rn+1,then

TfWL1Erx0crn+22rsn+3fL1Esx0ds,E13

where the constants are independent of r,x0 and f.

Theorem 3.2.(see [12]) Letp1andφxrbe a measurable positive function satisfying

ressinfs<ξ<φxξξn+2psn+2p+1dsxr,xrRn+1×R+E14

and letTbe a sublinear operator satisfying(6).

  1. Ifp>1andTis bounded onLpRn+1, thenTis bounded onMp,φRn+1, and

TfMp,φRn+1CfMp,φRn+1E15

  1. Ifp=1andTis bounded fromL1Rn+1toWL1Rn+1,then it is bounded fromM1,φRn+1toWM1,φRn+1,and

TfWM1,φRn+1CfM1,φRn+1E16

with constants independent of f.

Our next step is to show boundedness of Ta in Mp,φRn+1. For this we recall some properties of the BMO functions.

Lemma 3.2.John-Nirenberg lemma [[12], Lemma 2.8]. LetaBMOandp1.Then, for anyEr,

1ErErayaErpdy1pcpa.

As an immediate consequence of (7) we get the following property.

Corollary 3.1.LetaBMO.Then, for all0<2r<s,

aEraEsCn1+lnsraE17

Now we estimate the norm of Ta.

Lemma 3.3.(see [12]) LetaBMO.andTabe a bounded operator inLpRn+1,p1,satisfying(7)and(8). Suppose that, for anyfLp,locRn+1,

r1+lnsrfLpEsx0dssn+2p+1<x0rRn+1×R+E18

Then,

TafLpEsx0carn+2p2r1+lnsrfLpEsx0dssn+2p+1E19

where C is independent of a,f,x0 and r.

Theorem 3.3.Letp1andφxrbe measurable positive functions such that

r1+lnsressinfs<ξ<φxξξn+2psn+2+ppdsxrE20

forxrRn+1×R+,whereCis independent ofxandr.Suppose thataBMOand letTabe a sublinear operator satisfying(7). IfTais bounded inLpRn+1,then bounded inMp,φRn+1,and

TafMp,φRn+1CafMp,φRn+1E21

constant C independent of a and f.

Then basic results of the theorem follows by Lemma 3.3 and Theorem 3.1 in the same manner as for Theorem 3.2. For example the functions φxr=rβn+2p,φxr=rβn+2plogml+r with 0<β<n+2p and m1, are weight functions satisfying the condition (20).

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4. Non-singular integrals in generalized Morrey spaces

Let xD+n+1, define x¯=xxntDn+1 and x0=x,0,0Rn1. Consider the semi-ellipsoids Er+x0=Er+x0Dn+1. Let fL1D+n+1,aBMOD+n+1, and T¯,T¯a be sublinear operators such that

T¯fxCD+n+1fyρx¯yn+2dyE22
T¯afxCD+n+1axayfyρx¯yn+2dyE23

Let both the operators be bounded in LpD+n+1, satisfy the estimates

T¯fLpD+n+1CfLpD+n+1,T¯afLpD+n+1CafLpD+n+1E24

constants C independent of a and f.

The following results hold, which can be proved in the some manner as in Section 3 (see [12]).

Lemma 4.1.LetfLp,locD+n+1,p1and for allx0rRn1×R+

rsn+2p1fLpEs+x0ds<.E25

IfT¯is bounded onLpD+n+1,then

T¯fLpEr+x0crn+2p2rsn+2p1fLpEs+x0ds,E26

where the constant c is independent of r,x0 and f.

Theorem 4.1.Supposeφbe a weight function satisfying(14), and letT¯be a sublinear operator satisfying(22)and(24). ThenT¯is bounded inMp,φD+n+1,p1and

T¯fMp,φD+n+1CfMp,φD+n+1ds,E27

with a constant c independent of f.

Lemma 4.2.Letp1,aBMOD+n+1andT¯asatisfy(23)and(24). Suppose that, for allfLp,locD+n+1,

r1+lnsrfLpEs+x0sn+2p1ds<,x0rRn+1×R+.E28

Then

T¯afLpEr+x0Carn+2p2r1+lnsrfLpEs+x0dssn+2p+1

with a constant c independent of a,f,x0 and r.

Theorem 4.2.Letp1,aBMOD+n+1,letφx0rbe a weight function satisfying(20)andT¯abe a sublinear operator satisfying(7), (8). Then sublinear operatorT¯ais bounded inMp,φD+n+1and

T¯afMp,φD+n+1CafMp,φD+n+1E29

constant c independent of a and f.

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5. Singular and non-singular integrals in generalized Morrey spaces

We apply the above results to Calderon-Zygmund-type operators with parabolic kernel. Since these operators are sublinear and bounded in LpRn+1, their continuity in Mp,φ follows immediately. We are called a parabolic Calderon-Zygmund kernel if the following a measurable function Kxξ:Rn+1×Rn+1\0R.

  1. Kx is a parabolic Calderon-Zygmund kernel for a.e. xRn+1:

    1a.KxCRn+1\0,

    1b.Kxμξμ2s=μn2Kxξ for all μ>0, ξ=ξs,

    1c.SnKxξdσξ=0,SnKxξdσξ<+.

  2. DξβKLRn+1×SnMβ< for every multi-index β.

Moreover,

Kxxyρxyn2Kxxyρxytτρ2xyMρxyn+2,

which means the singular integrals

Bfx=PVRn+1Kxxyfydy,E30
Cafx=PVRn+1Kxxyayaxfydy

are sublinear and bounded in LpRn+1 according to the results in [1, 13].

Theorem 5.1.LetfMp,φRn+1m then there exist constantscdepending onn,pand the kernel such that

BfMp,φRn+1CfMp,φRn+1,E31
CafMp,φRn+1CafMp,φRn+1.

Corollary 5.1.For any cylinderQinR+n+1,fMp,φQ,aBMOQandKxξ:Q×R+n+1\0R.Then the operators(30)are bounded inMp,φQand

BfMp,φQCfMp,φQ,CafMp,φ(Q)CafMp,φQ.E32

constant c independent of a and f.

We define the extensions

K¯xξ=Kxξ,xξQ×R+n+1\00,elsewhere,f¯x=fx,xQ0,xQ

and then the singular integral satisfying inequalities

BfxB¯fxCRn+1fyρxyn+2dy

and

BfMp,φQB¯fMp,φRn+1Cf¯Mp,φRn+1=CfMp,φQ.

Corollary 5.2.LetaVMO. Then for anyε>0there exists a positive numberr0=r0εηasuch that for anyErx0with a radiusr0r0and allfMp,φErx0

CafMp,φErx0CεfMp,φErx0,E33

where c is independent of E,f,r, and x0.

For the proof of corollary see [12].

For any xR+n and any fixed t>0, define the generalized reflexion

τx=τxt,τx=x2xnaαβxtnaαβxtnn,E34

where αm,βm,aαβnx is the last row of the coefficients matrix ax=aαβx of (1). The function τx maps R+n into Rn, and the kernel Kxτxy=Kxτxytτ is non-singular for any x,yD+n+1. Taking x¯D+n+1, there exists positive constants K1 and K2 such that

K1ρx¯yρτxyK2ρx¯y.E35

Let fMp,φD+n+1, aBMOD+n+1 define the non-singular integral operators

B¯fx=D+n+1Kxτxyfydy,C¯afx=D+n+1Kxτxyayaxfydy.E36

Since Kxτxy is still homogeneous and satisfies 1b, we have

KxτxyMρτxyn+2Cρx¯yn+2.

Hence, the operators (36) are sublinear and bounded in LpD+n+1,p1. From section 4 the following results are obtained.

Theorem 5.2.LetaBMOD+n+1andfMp,φD+n+1withpφas in(8)Then the non-singular operators are continuous inMp,φD+n+1and

B¯fxMp,φ(Dn+1CfD+n+1,C¯afxMp,φ(Dn+1CafD+n+1E37

constant C independent of a and f.

Corollary 5.3.For anyaVMO. Then there exists a positive numberr0=r0εφasuch that for anyErx0with a radiusr0r0and allfMp,φEr+x0

CafMp,φEr+x0CεfMp,φEr+x0E38

where C is independent of E,f,r and x0, ε>0.

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6. Proof of the first main result

Now using boundedness of singular integral of Calderon-Zygmund operators in generalized Morrey spaces we will get interval estimates for solutions of problem (1), (2) with coefficients from VMO spaces.

Let Ω to be open bounded domain in Rn,n3 and we suppose that its boundary is sufficiently smoothness.

Let coefficients aαβx, α,βm are symmetric and satisfying to the condition uniform ellipticity, essential boundedness of the coefficient aαβxLQ and regularity aαβxVMOQ. Let fMp,φQ,pφ as in (8) Since Mp,φQ is a proper subset of LpQ,(1) and (2) is uniquely solvable and the solution ux belongs at least to Wp2m,1Q. Our aim is to show that this solution also belong to W0p,φ2m,1Q. For this we need an a priori estimate of u, which we prove in two steps. Before we give interior estimate. For any x0R+n+1 define the parabolic semi-cylinders Crx0=Brx0×t0r2t0. Let ϑC0Cr and suppose that ϑxt=0, for t0. According to [1, 7, 16], for any xsuppϑ the following representation formula for the higher derivatives of ϑ holds true if uW0p2mQ

Dαux=P.V.Rn+1DαΓxxyα,β2maαβxaαβyDα,βϑydy+P.V.Rn+1DαΓxxyydy+xSnDβΓxyνidσyE39

where ν=ν1νn+1 is the outward normal to Sn. Here, Γxξ is the fundamental solution of the operator L. Γxt can be represented in form

Γxξ=1n2ωndetaαβ12i,j=1nAαβxξiξj2n2

for a.e. xRn+1 and ξRn\0, where Aαβn×n is inverse matrix for aαβn×n. Since any function ϑWp2m,1Q can be approximated by C0 functions, the representation formula (39) still holds for any ϑWp2m,1Crx0. The properties of the fundamental solution (see [7, 17]) imply that DαΓxy are variable Calderon-Zygmund kernels in the sense of our definition above. By notation above, we can write

Dα,βϑx=Dα,βCaα,βϑx+Dα,βBx+xSnDαΓxyνidσy.α,βm.E40

The operators Dα,βB and Dα,βC are defined by (30) with Kxxy=Dα,βΓxxy. Due to (30) and (31) and the equivalence of the metrics we obtain for E>0 there exists r0E such that for any r<r0E

Dα,βϑMp,φCrx0CDα,βϑMp,φCrx0+Mp,φCrx0E41

for some r small enough. From (41) we get that

Dα,βϑMp,φCrx0CnpφαDα,βΓLQ)Mp,φCrx0.

Define a cut-off function ψx=ψ1xψ2t, with ψ1C0Brx0, ψ2C0R such that

ψ1x=1,xBθrx00,xBθ'rx0,ψ2t=1,tt0θr2t00,t<(t0θ'r2

with θ01, θ'=θ3θ/2>0 and DαψCθ1θrα, α2m, ψtDαψ. For any solution uWp2m,1Q of (1) and (2) define ϑx=φxuxWp2m,1Cr. Hence,

Dα,βuMp,φCθrx0Dα,βϑMp,φCθ'rx0CMp,φCθ'rx0CfMp,φCθ'rx0+DαuMp,φCθ'rx0θ1θr+uMp,φCθ'rx0θ1θr2.

As so,

θ1θr2Dα,βuMp,φCθrx0Cr2fMp,φQ+θ1θ'rDαuMp,φCθrx0+uMp,φCθrx0.

We introduce

θα=sup0<θ<1θ1θrαDαuMp,φCθrx0,α2m,

the above inequality becomes

θ1θr2DαuMp,φCθrx0θ2mCr2fMp,φQ+θm+θ0E42

Now we use following interpolation inequality (see [5])

θmεθ2m+cεθ0foranyε02m.

where there exists a positive constant C independent of r. Thus (42) becomes

θ1θr2Dα,βuMp,φCθrx0θ2mCr2+θ0,θ01.

Taking θ=12 we obtain the Caccioppoli-type estimate

Dα,βuMp,φCr/2x0CfMp,φQ+1r2uMp,φCθrx0

We get the boundedness of the coefficients

utMp,φCr/2x0aLQDα,βuMp,φCr/2x0++fMp,φCr/2x0CfMp,φQ+1r2uMp,φCrx0.

Let Q=Ω×0T and Q=Ω×0T the cylinders with ΩΩΩ. By the standard covering procedure and partition of the unity we obtain that

uWp,φ2m,1QCfMp,φQ+uMp,φQ)E43

where C depends on n,p,Λ,T,DΓLQ,ηα,aLQ and distΩΩ. Now we give boundary estimates. For any fixed x0rRn+1×R+ define the semi-cylinders

Cr+x0=Br+x0×0r2=x0x<r,xn>0,0<t<r2

with Sr+=x0t:x0x<r,0<t<r2. For any solution uWp2m,1Cr+x0 with suppuCr+x0, the following boundary representation formula holds (see [1, 7, 16]).

Dα,βux=Cijaα,βDα,βux+BijLux+LuxSnDαΓνidσyJijx,

where

Jijx=BijLux+C˜ijaα,β,Dα,βux,i,j=1,,n1,Jinx=Jnix=i=1nτxxnlC¯ilaα,β,Dα,βux+B¯ilLux,i=1,,nJnnx=r,l=1nτxxnrτxxnlC¯ilcDα,βux+B¯ilLux,τxxn=2aα,βn1xaα,βnnx2aα,βnn1xaα,βnnx10.

Here B¯ij and C¯ij are non-singular operators defined by (36) with a kernel Kxτxy=Dα,βΓxτxy. Applying the estimates (37) and (38) and having in mind that the components of the vector τxxn are bounded, we obtain that

Dα,βuMp,φCrx0CfMp,φQ+r2uMp,φCrx0

Taking r small enough we can move the norm of u on the left-hand side, obtaining that

uMp,φCrx0CfMp,φQ

with a constant C depending on n,p,Λ,T,ηα,aLQ. By covering the boundary with small cylinders, using a partition of the unit subordinated by that covering and local flattening of ∂Ω we get that

uWp,φ2m,1Q\Q'CfMp,φQE44

Using (43) and (44), we obtain (5).

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7. The higher order elliptic equations in unbounded domains

Now we are consider boundary value the Dirichlet problem for higher order nondivergence uniformly elliptic equations with coefficients in modified Morrey spaces in unbounded domains Ω

Lu=αβmaα,βDα,βu=fxinΩDαu=gxαm1on∂ΩE45

where the coefficients matrix ax=aα,βijxi,j=1n satisfies

Λ>0Λα=mξα2α=β=maα,βξαξβ,E46

for a.e. xΩ, ξRn, aα,β=aβ,α,ξ=ξαα=mRN, N–number different multiindeks with length equal to m.

Under these assumptions we prove that the maximal operator M are bounded from the modified Morrey space L˜p,λRn to L˜q,λRn if and only if,

αn1p1qαnλ.

For xRn and t>0, let Bxt denote the open ball centered at x of radius t and Bxt=Rn\Bxt. One of the most important variants of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is the so-called fractional maximal function defined by the formula

Mαfx=supt>0B(xt)1+αnBxtfydy,0α<n,

where Bxt is the Lebesgue measure of the ball B(x,t). The fractional maximal function Mαf coincides for α=0 with the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function MfM0f.

Let 1p<,0λn,t1=min1t. We denote by L˜p,λRn the modified Morrey space, as the set of locally integrable functions fx,xRn, with the finite norm

fL˜p,λ=supxRn,t>0t1λBxtfypdy1p

Note that

L˜p,0Rn=Lp,0Rn=LpRn,
L˜p,λRnLp,λRnLpRnandmaxfLp,λfLpfL˜p,λ,

and if λ<0 or λ>n, then Lp,λRn=L˜p,λRn=θ, where θ is the set of all functions equivalent to 0 on Rn. WL˜p,λRn-the modified weak Morrey space as the set of locally integrable functions fx,xRn with finite norm

fWL˜p,λ=supr>0rsupxRn,t>0t1λ{yBxt:fy>r}1p.

Note that

WL˜p,0Rn=WLp,0Rn=WLpRn,L˜p,λRnWL˜p,λRnandfWL˜p,λfL˜p,λ.

We study the L˜p,λ-boundedness of the maximal operator M.

The classical result by Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev states that if 1<p<q<, then the Riesz potential Iα is bounded from LpRn to LqRn if and only if α=n1p1q and for p=1<q<, Iα is bounded from L1Rn to WLqRn if and only if α=n11q. D.R. Adams studied the boundedness of the Iα in Morrey spaces and proved the follows statement.

Theorem(Adams) Let 0<α<n and 0λ<nα, 1p<nλα.

  1. If 1<p<nλα, then condition 1p1q=αnλ is necessary and sufficient for the boundedness of the operator Iα from Lp,λRn to Lq,λRn.

  2. If p=1, then condition 11q=αnλ is necessary and sufficient for the boundedness of the operator Iα from L1,λRn to WLq,λRn.

If α=npnq, then λ=0 and the statement of Theorem reduced to the aforementioned result by Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Theorem also implies the boundedness of the fractional maximal operator Mα.

In this section we study the fractional maximal integral and the Riesz potential in the modified Morrey space. In the case p=1 we prove that the operator Iα is bounded from L˜1,λRn to WL˜q,λRn if and only if, αn11qαnλ. In the case 1<p<nλα we prove that the operator Iα is bounded from L˜p,λRn to L˜q,λRn if and only if, αn1p1qαnλ.

Theorem 7.1.IffL˜p,λRn,1<p<,0λ<n,thenMfL˜p,λRnand

MfL˜p,λCp,λfL˜p,λ,

where Cp,λ depends only on p,λ and n.

Proof. We use Fefferman-Stein inequality and get

BxtMfypdyCRnfypMχBxtydy.

Later from some estimates for MχBxt we have the following inequalities

BxtMfypdyCBxtfypdy++j=0Bx2j+1t\Bx2jttnfypdyxy+tnCt1λfL˜p,λp.

Theorem 7.2.(see [18]) Let0<α<n,0λ<nαand1p<nλα.

  1. If 1<p<nλα, then condition αn1p1qαnλ is necessary and sufficient for the boundedness of the Riesz potential operator Iα from L˜p,λRn to L˜q,λRn.

  2. If p=1<nλα, then condition αn11qαnλ is necessary and sufficient for the boundedness of the operator Iα from L˜1,λRn to L˜q,λRn.

Recall that, for 0<α<n

Mαfxνnαn1Iαfx

where νn is the volume of the unit ball in Rn. From [7] for unbounded domains ΩRn we have following result.

Theorem 7.3.LetΩRnbe an unbounded domains with noncompact boundary∂Ω, and0<α<n,0λ<nαand1<p<nλα. Also let satisfies conditionsαn1p1qαnλ,fL˜q,λΩ, functionUxis a solution of problem(45). Then there is exist constantCwhich dependent only atn,λ,p,q,Ωsuch that

UW˜p,λ2mΩCfL˜q,λΩ,E47

where W˜p,λ2m-is correspondingly modified Sobolev-Morrey space.

The proved Theorem 7.3 consequence from methods of [7] and Theorem 7.1 and 7.2.

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Additional classifications

Mathematics Subject Classifications (2010): 35 J25, 35B45,42B20, 47B38

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Tair Gadjiev and Konul Suleymanova

Submitted: 20 October 2020 Reviewed: 23 February 2021 Published: 22 March 2021