Regularity and stability for solutions to elliptic equations and systems arising from high-contrast composites

TL;DR

This paper investigates the regularity and stability of solutions to elliptic equations and systems in high-contrast composite materials, demonstrating smoothness and stability under small perturbations across various boundary conditions.

Contribution

It provides new results on the regularity and stability of solutions in high-contrast composites, including elasticity problems with infinite coefficients.

Findings

Solutions are smooth and stable under small translational movements.

Results cover perfect conductors, insulators, and mixed cases.

Extends to elasticity problems modeled by the Lamé system.

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to study the regularity and stability for solutions to the conductivity problems with degenerate coefficients in the presence of two rigid conductors, as one conductor keeps motionless and another conductor moves in some direction by a sufficiently small translational distance. We will show that the solutions are smooth and stable with respect to the small translational distance. Our results contain the following three cases: two perfect conductors, two insulators, a perfect conductor and an insulator. Further, we extend the results to the elasticity problem modeled by the Lam\'{e} system with partially infinite coefficients.