# Continuity of solutions to space-varying pointwise linear elliptic equations

#### Autoren: Lashi Bandara (2017)

We consider pointwise linear elliptic equations of the form Lxuxx on a smooth compact manifold where the operators Lx are in divergence form with real, bounded, measurable coefficients that vary in the space variable x. We establish L2-continuity of the solution at x whenever the coefficients of Lx are L-continuous at x and the initial datum is L2-continuous at x. This is obtained by reducing the continuity of solutions to a homogeneous Kato square root problem. As an application, we consider a time evolving family of metrics g<ub>t that is tangential to the Ricci flow almost-everywhere along geodesics when starting with a smooth initial metric. Under the assumption that our initial metric is a rough metric on M with a C1 heat kernel on a "non-singular" nonempty open subset N, we show that x x↦gt(x) is continuous whenever x ∈ N.

Zeitschrift:
Publ. Mat.
Seiten:
239-258
Band:
61, no. 1

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