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Weak Dirichlet solutions for a divergence-form operator

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Assume Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)), and let L and its form a be as in Uniformly elliptic divergence-form operators and their sesquilinear forms on an open set Ω⊆Rn. Homogeneous problem. Given F∈H−1(Ω) (The negative Sobolev space H−1(Ω)), a weak solution of Lu=F with zero boundary values is a class u∈H01(Ω) (Zero-boundary Sobolev space as a norm closure, Integer-order Sobolev spaces and their norms) with a(u,v)=F(v)for every v∈H01(Ω). Inhomogeneous problem. Additionally assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice) for the trace supplier, and let n≥2 and Ω be a bounded C1 domain (Bounded C^k domains and boundary charts), let g∈H1/2(∂Ω):=W1/2,2(∂Ω) in the boundary scale of The fractional Sobolev space on a compact C1 boundary and let T be the trace operator of The Lp trace operator on a bounded C1 domain. A weak solution with boundary data g is a class u∈H1(Ω) with Tu=g and a(u,v)=F(v) for every v∈H01(Ω). The defining identities are identities between functionals on the H01 classes, so they are independent of the chosen almost-everywhere representatives of u, of the coefficients and of the data (Weak differentiation ignores null-set changes, Complex Lp classes and Euclidean test-function conventions); the boundary condition is imposed through the trace of The Lp trace operator on a bounded C1 domain, never by pointwise evaluation. The Dirichlet condition is imposed by u∈H01(Ω) in the homogeneous problem and by Tu=g in the inhomogeneous problem; testing against v∈H01 expresses the weak equation and does not by itself impose boundary data; the integrals are the ones proved absolutely convergent in The elliptic form is well defined and bounded on H1.

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