Polyharmonic capacity and Wiener test of higher order

In the present paper we establish the Wiener test for boundary regularity of the solutions to the polyharmonic operator. We introduce a new notion of polyharmonic capacity and demonstrate necessary and sufficient conditions on the capacity of the domain responsible for the regularity of a polyharmon...

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Published in:Inventiones mathematicae Vol. 211; no. 2; pp. 779 - 853
Main Authors: Mayboroda, Svitlana, Maz’ya, Vladimir
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2018
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ISSN:0020-9910, 1432-1297, 1432-1297
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Summary:In the present paper we establish the Wiener test for boundary regularity of the solutions to the polyharmonic operator. We introduce a new notion of polyharmonic capacity and demonstrate necessary and sufficient conditions on the capacity of the domain responsible for the regularity of a polyharmonic function near a boundary point. In the case of the Laplacian the test for regularity of a boundary point is the celebrated Wiener criterion of 1924. It was extended to the biharmonic case in dimension three by Mayboroda and Maz’ya (Invent Math 175(2):287–334, 2009 ). As a preliminary stage of this work, in Mayboroda and Maz’ya (Invent Math 196(1):168, 2014 ) we demonstrated boundedness of the appropriate derivatives of solutions to the polyharmonic problem in arbitrary domains, accompanied by sharp estimates on the Green function. The present work pioneers a new version of capacity and establishes the Wiener test in the full generality of the polyharmonic equation of arbitrary order.
ISSN:0020-9910
1432-1297
1432-1297
DOI:10.1007/s00222-017-0756-y