Uniform $W^{1,p}$ Estimates and Large-Scale Regularity for Dirichlet Problems in Perforated Domains

Abstract

In this paper we study the Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation in a domain ${\omega }_{\epsilon ,\eta }$ perforated periodically with small holes in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, where $\epsilon$ represents the scale of the minimal distances between holes and $\eta$ the ratio between the scale of sizes of holes and $\epsilon$. We establish $W^{1,p}$ estimates for solutions with bounding constants depending explicitly on $\epsilon$ and $\eta$. The proof relies on a large-scale Lipschitz estimate for harmonic functions in perforated domains. The results are optimal for $d\ge 2$.

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