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Uniqueness implies existence for the elliptic Dirichlet problem
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice and Countable Choice. In the setting of The Fredholm alternative for weak elliptic Dirichlet problems suppose both homogeneous problems are trivial: for all implies , and for all implies (the two conditions are equivalent by the finite dimension and equality of dimensions in The elliptic kernel and cokernel are finite dimensional). Then for every there is exactly one with for all . Moreover the solution map is a bounded linear operator from to : explicitly for every admissible , with bounded on (The shifted elliptic solution operator, Neumann series and small perturbations of bounded inverses).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the Axiom of Choice and Countable Choice; a bounded open set ; the weak Dirichlet problem for form and adjoint ; a fixed ; the compact operator on ; and the assumption that both homogeneous problems are trivial.
Fredholm alternative: exactly one of the alternatives of The Fredholm alternative for weak elliptic Dirichlet problems holds; alternative (2) holds exactly when the homogeneous problem has a nonzero solution; alternative (1) gives existence and uniqueness for every .
The homogeneous space of [] equals , and is a weak solution with datum exactly when (On bounded domains, the unshifted equation is an identity-minus-compact equation, The elliptic kernel and cokernel are finite dimensional, The shifted elliptic solution operator).
Abstract Fredholm alternative: for a compact on a Banach space, is injective if and only if it is surjective, and then it is boundedly invertible (Fredholm alternative for identity minus compact, Bounded inverse theorem, Neumann series and small perturbations of bounded inverses).
Bounded linear operators compose to bounded linear operators, and is bounded linear (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The shifted elliptic solution operator).
Proof
Existence and uniqueness. If the homogeneous problem is trivial then by [F2], so alternative (2) of [F1] is excluded; by the dichotomy of [F1] alternative (1) holds. Hence for every the weak problem has exactly one solution . The triviality of the adjoint homogeneous problem is not needed for this conclusion, and the two triviality hypotheses are equivalent by The elliptic kernel and cokernel are finite dimensional.
Bounded solution map. Under the hypothesis the operator is injective on , so [F3] makes it boundedly invertible there; since is a weak solution with datum exactly when by [F2], the unique solution is . The operator commutes with , hence also with , so . Both factors in this expression are bounded linear operators, with mapping into by [F4], so is a bounded linear operator from to ; the expression is independent of the admissible shift because is.
Conclusion. Steps 1.1 and 2.1 give existence, uniqueness and the bounded solution map for every , with the explicit representation ; no compactness is used beyond the Fredholm alternative inherited from , and the Axiom of Choice supplies the hypotheses of the Rellich compactness and abstract Fredholm suppliers.
Depends on
- The elliptic kernel and cokernel are finite dimensional
- The Axiom of Choice
- A bounded linear operator between normed spaces
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- The shifted elliptic solution operator
- Neumann series and small perturbations of bounded inverses
- On bounded domains, the unshifted equation is an identity-minus-compact equation
- Bounded inverse theorem
- Fredholm alternative for identity minus compact
- The Fredholm alternative for weak elliptic Dirichlet problems
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, Notes on Partial Differential Equations (UC Davis, revised 18 June 2014, complete 242-page notes) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Gerald Teschl, Partial Differential Equations: From Classical to Modern (2025 archived author manuscript, complete 392 pages) (standard reference, not scraped)