Weighted gradient estimates for elliptic problems with Neumann boundary conditions in Lipschitz and (semi-)convex domains

Abstract

Let n≥2 and Ω be a bounded Lipschitz domain in Rn. In this article, the authors investigate global (weighted) norm estimates for the gradient of solutions to Neumann boundary value problems of second order elliptic equations of divergence form with real-valued, bounded, measurable coefficients in Ω. More precisely, for any given p∈(2,∞), two necessary and sufficient conditions for W1,p estimates of solutions to Neumann boundary value problems, respectively, in terms of a weak reverse Hölder inequality with exponent p or weighted W1,q estimates of solutions with q∈[2,p] and some Muckenhoupt weights, are obtained. As applications, for any given p∈(1,∞) and ω∈Ap(Rn) (the class of Muckenhoupt weights), the authors establish weighted Wω1,p estimates for solutions to Neumann boundary value problems of second order elliptic equations of divergence form with small BMO coefficients on bounded (semi-)convex domains. As further applications, the global gradient estimates are obtained, respectively, in (weighted) Lorentz spaces, (Lorentz–)Morrey spaces, (weighted) Orlicz spaces, and variable Lebesgue spaces.