Date of Graduation

1-2021

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Mathematical Sciences

Advisor

Ariel Barton

Committee Member

Andrew Raich

Second Committee Member

Zachary Bradshaw

Keywords

Differential Equations

Abstract

Here we generalize the higher-order divergence-form elliptic differential equations studied by Barton in [4] by the inclusion of certain lower-order terms. The methods used here compare to those used in [4], with the addition of further Sobolev-type estimates to handle included lower-order terms. In section 3 we derive a Caccioppoli inequality in which we bound the L2 norm of the mth order gradient, in terms of the L2 norm of the solution. In section 5 we adapt some of the ideas from [9] to derive Lp bounds on gradients of solutions as a substitute for a reverse Holder inequality. Finally in section 4 we study the fundamental solution of the operator L. We prove existence and bounds first in the case that L is of sufficiently high order (2m > d), then in section 6.2 we extend these results to operators of lower order where 2m ≤ d.

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