Sobolev regularity for nonlinear Poisson equations with Neumann boundary conditions on Riemannian manifolds

TL;DR

This paper investigates the Sobolev regularity of solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions on Riemannian manifolds, introducing new integral methods and applications to Mean Field Games.

Contribution

It develops an integral refinement of Bochner's identity to establish Sobolev regularity results for nonlinear equations on manifolds, including new Calderón-Zygmund type estimates.

Findings

Established Sobolev regularity under various integrability regimes.

Derived semilinear Calderón-Zygmund estimates for nonlinear equations.

Applied results to smoothness of Mean Field Games solutions.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Sobolev regularity of solutions to nonlinear second order elliptic equations with super-linear first-order terms on Riemannian manifolds, complemented with Neumann boundary conditions, when the source term of the equation belongs to a Lebesgue space, under various integrability regimes. Our method is based on an integral refinement of the Bochner's identity, and leads to "semilinear Calder\'on-Zygmund" type results. Applications to the problem of smoothness of solutions to Mean Field Games systems with Neumann boundary conditions posed on convex domains of the Euclidean space will also be discussed.