Weighted Local Orlicz-Hardy Spaces on Domains and Their Applications in Inhomogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann Problems

TL;DR

This paper introduces weighted local Orlicz-Hardy spaces on domains, characterizes them via heat semigroup functions, and applies these to establish boundedness of second-order elliptic operator Green functions in inhomogeneous boundary value problems.

Contribution

It defines new weighted local Orlicz-Hardy spaces on domains and proves their characterizations and boundedness properties for elliptic operator Green functions.

Findings

Characterization of weighted local Orlicz-Hardy spaces via maximal and area functions.

Boundedness of second-order elliptic Green operators on these spaces.

Applications to inhomogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann boundary problems.

Abstract

Let $\Omega$ be either $\mathbb{R}^n$ or a strongly Lipschitz domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$, and $\omega\in A_{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ (the class of Muckenhoupt weights). Let $L$ be a second order divergence form elliptic operator on $L^2 (\Omega)$ with the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition, and assume that the heat semigroup generated by $L$ has the Gaussian property $(G_1)$ with the regularity of their kernels measured by $\mu\in(0,1]$. Let $\Phi$ be a continuous, strictly increasing, subadditive, positive and concave function on $(0,\infty)$ of critical lower type index $p_{\Phi}^-\in(0,1]$. In this paper, the authors introduce the "geometrical" weighted local Orlicz-Hardy spaces $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,r}(\Omega)$ and $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,z}(\Omega)$ via the weighted local Orlicz-Hardy spaces $h^{\Phi}_{\omega}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and obtain their two equivalent characterizations in terms of the nontangential maximal function and the Lusin area function associated with the heat semigroup generated by $L$ when $p_{\Phi}^-\in(n/(n+\mu),1]$. As applications, the authors prove that the operators $\nabla^2{\mathbb G}_D$ are bounded from $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,r}(\Omega)$ to the weighted Orlicz space $L^{\Phi}_{\omega}(\Omega)$, and from $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,r}(\Omega)$ to itself when $\Omega$ is a bounded semiconvex domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $p_{\Phi}^-\in(\frac{n}{n+1},1]$, and the operators $\nabla^2{\mathbb G}_N$ are bounded from $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,z}(\Omega)$ to $L^{\Phi}_{\omega}(\Omega)$, and from $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,z}(\Omega)$ to $h^{\Phi}_{\omega,\,r}(\Omega)$ when $\Omega$ is a bounded convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $p_{\Phi}^-\in(\frac{n}{n+1},1]$, where ${\mathbb G}_D$ and ${\mathbb G}_N$ denote, respectively, the Dirichlet Green operator and the Neumann Green operator.