Boundary regularity for a degenerate elliptic equation with mixed boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider a function U satisfying a degenerate elliptic equation on (0,+\infty)\times R^N with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. The Neumann condition is prescribed on a bounded domain Ω\subset R^N of class C^{1;1}, whereas the Dirichlet data is on the exterior of Ω. We prove Holder regularity estimates of U/d^s, where d is a distance function defined as d(z) := dist(z;R^N\setminusΩ), for z\in (0,+\infty)\times R^N. The degenerate elliptic equation arises from the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension of the Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian. Our proof relies on compactness and blow-up analysis arguments.

23 pages