Remarks on existence and uniqueness of solutions of elliptic problems with right-hand side measures. (English) Zbl 0843.35127

Prignet, A.

Rend. Mat. Appl., VII. Ser. 15, No. 3, 321-337 (1995).

The author studies an elliptic Dirichlet problem \[ - \partial_{x_i} (a_{ij} \partial_{x_j} u)= f\quad\text{in} \quad \Omega,\quad u= 0\quad\text{on} \quad \partial \Omega \] with \(a_{ij}\in L^\infty(\Omega)\) and \(f\in (C(\overline\Omega))'\) the space of Radon measures and \(\Omega\) an open bounded set of \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with \(N\geq 2\). For \(f\in H^1(\Omega)\) there was a unique variational solution in \(H^1_0(\Omega)\). For \(f\not\in H^1(\Omega)\) one did not find solutions in \(H^1_0(\Omega)\) and some weaker formulations had been introduced. Solutions were given by Stampacchia or by Boccardo and Gallouët by an approximation of \(f\). The author shows equivalences to other weaker formulations to see that the one of Boccardo and Gallouët is weaker than the one used by Stampacchia and to see that the solutions of Boccardo and Gallouët are solutions of Stampacchia. Because the Stampacchia-formulation ensures the uniqueness of \(u\), the approximative solution of Boccardo and Gallouët is unique.
Uniqueness for the Boccardo-Gallouët-formulation is not ensured and for \(N> 2\) and \(\Omega\) the unit ball of \(\mathbb{R}^N\) the author gives an adaption of the counterexample of Serrin for getting a nontrivial solution \(u\) for \(f= 0\) such that \(u\in W^{1, q}(\Omega)\) for all \(q< N/(1- N)\) and \(u\not\in H^1(\Omega)\) but with trace in \(H^{1/2}(\partial\Omega)\) which gives two solutions in this space.

Reviewer: J.Jaenicke (Braunschweig)

MSC:

35R05	PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data
35J25	Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations
35A35	Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs

Keywords:

Radon measures; uniqueness; counterexample