Coercivity of elliptic mixed boundary value problems in annulus of $\mathbb{R}^N$

Santiago Cano-Casanova

doi:10.3934/dcds.2012.32.3819

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2012, Volume 32, Issue 11: 3819-3839. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.3819

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Coercivity of elliptic mixed boundary value problems in annulus of $\mathbb{R}^N$

Santiago Cano-Casanova^1,

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Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Computación, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería - ICAI, Universidad Ponticia Comillas, Alberto Aguilera, 25, 28015-Madrid

Received: June 30, 2011

Revised: September 30, 2011

Published: October 2012

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In this paper is proved that the Strong Maximum Principle is satisfied for a wide class of linear elliptic boundary value problems of mixed type in an annulus of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, provided it is thin enough. The coercive character of these boundary value problems is obtained thanks to the characterization of the Strong Maximum Principle found in [3], proving that the principal eigenvalue associated to each boundary value problem may be as large as we wish, independently of the weight on the boundary, by taking the annulus thin enough.

Keywords:

Maximum principle,
principal eigenvalues,
coercivity of elliptic problems and mixed boundary conditions.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34B18, 35P15; Secondary: 34B15, 34B05.

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