On the Dirichlet Problem for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Hessian Systems

Abstract

We consider the problem of existence and uniqueness of strong solutions $u:\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^n⟶{\mathbb{R}}^N$ in $(H^2\cap H_0^1)(\Omega {)}^N$ to the problem \[\label{1} \tag{1} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} F(\cdot,D^2u ) \,=\, f, \ \ \text{ in }Ω,\\ \hspace{31pt} u\,=\, 0, \ \ \text{ on }\partial Ω, \end{array} \right. \] when $f\in L^2(\Omega {)}^N$, $F$ is a Carathéodory map and $\Omega$ is convex. \eqref{1} has been considered by several authors, firstly by Campanato and under Campanato's ellipticity condition. By employing a new weaker notion of ellipticity introduced in recent work of the author [K2] for the respective global problem on ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, we prove well-posedness of \eqref{1}. Our result extends existing ones under hypotheses weaker than those known previously. An essential part of our analysis in an extension of the classical Miranda-Talenti inequality to the vector case of 2nd order linear hessian systems with rank-one convex coefficients.

Journal: Ann. Scuola Normale Sup. Pisa. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.5423