2012/11/15 by Teixeira, Eduardo V. · 1 citation
#35B65 #35J60 #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.3691
Established in the 30's, Schauder \it a priori estimates are among the most classical and powerful tools in the analysis of problems ruled by 2nd order elliptic PDEs. Since then, a central problem in regularity theory has been to understand Schauder type estimates fashioning particular borderline scenarios. In such context, it has been a common accepted aphorism that the continuity of the Hessian of a solution could never be superior than the continuity of the medium. Notwithstanding, in this article we show that solutions to uniformly elliptic, linear equations with C0,ε coefficients are of class C2,α, for any 0 < ε ≪ α< 1, at Hessian degenerate points, \mathscrH(u):=\X \suchthat D2u(X) = 0\. In fact we develop a more general regularity result at such Hessian degenerate points, featuring into the theory of fully nonlinear equations. Insofar as the optimal modulus of continuity for the Hessian is concerned, the result of this paper is the first one in the literature to surpass the inborn obstruction from the sharp Schauder \it a priori regularity theory.