Divergence operator and Poincare inequalities on arbitrary bounded domains

Abstract

Let $\Omega$ be an arbitrary bounded domain of ${\mathbb{R}}^n$. We study the right invertibility of the divergence on $\Omega$ in weighted Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces on $\Omega$, and rely this invertibility to a geometric characterization of $\Omega$ and to weighted Poincaré inequalities on $\Omega$. We recover, in particular, well-known results on the right invertibility of the divergence in Sobolev spaces when $\Omega$ is Lipschitz or, more generally, when $\Omega$ is a John domain, and focus on the case of $s$-John domains.