MR2332078 Yoshinori MORIMOTO and Chao-Jiang XU Yoshinori MORIMOTO and Chao-Jiang XU Nonlinear Hypoellipticity of Infinite Type Funkcialaj Ekvacioj. Serio Internacia 50 2007 33--65 http://fe.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/FE/FullPapers/50-1/50_33.pdf http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=MR2332078 We study the regularity of weak solutions for a class of second order semi-linear infinitely degenerate elliptic equations. We get the regularity of weak solutions up to the boundary for Dirichlet problem, by noting the logarithmic regularity estimate for a linear principal part. In relation to this linear part, we also show the controllability and strong maximum principle for second order hypoelliptic operators even in the case where they degenerate infinitely. Model equations naturally come from some variational problems, if one replace the Laplace operator in such as Yamabe problems by degenerate elliptic operators. In the infinitely degenerate case, a permissible nonlinear term is not fractional power, compared with elliptic or subelliptic case. To treat this nonlinear term, the nonlinear microlocal analysis is developed in the logarithmic Sobolev space. Nonlinear hypoellipticity, Hörmander's operators, Controllability, Maximum principle. 35A, 35H, 35N. 50-33 2007 Nonlinear Hypoellipticity of Infinite Type Yoshinori MORIMOTO and Chao-Jiang XU Yoshinori MORIMOTO and Chao-Jiang XU
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