On the Relation between Weak Solutions of Elliptic Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary-Value Problems for Plane Simply Connected Domains

Abstract

For any (possibly unbounded) simply connected domain Ω ⊂ ℝ2 whose complement has nonempty interior, we establish an explicit relation between the solving operators of the elliptic Dirichlet and Neumann boundary-value problems for classes of weak solutions with first derivatives from Lp(Ω). It is assumed that the uniformly elliptic operators are of divergence form with essentially bounded matrix coefficients and with functionals on the right-hand side which are bounded on the spaces of corresponding weak solutions. The relation between the solving operators is established under the necessary and sufficient solvability conditions for the Neumann problem, i.e., when the given functional does vanish on the subspace of constants.