Refined Rellich boundary inequalities for the derivatives of a harmonic function

Abstract

The classical Rellich inequalities imply that the $L^2$-norms of the normal and tangential derivatives of a harmonic function are equivalent. In this note, we prove several refined inequalities, which make sense even if the domain is not Lipschitz. For two-dimensional domains, we obtain a sharp $L^p$-estimate for $1<p\le 2$ by using a Riemann mapping and interpolation argument.

12 pages. Accepted in Proceedings of the AMS