Boundedness of the gradient of a solution to the Neumann-Laplace problem in a convex domain

It is shown that solutions of the Neumann problem for the Poisson equation in an arbitrary convex $n$-dimensional domain are uniformly Lipschitz. Applications of this result to some aspects of regularity of solutions to the Neumann problem on convex polyhedra are given

Criteria for the LpL^{p}-dissipativity of systems of second order differential equations

We give complete algebraic characterizations of the $L^{p}$-dissipativity of the Dirichlet problem for some systems of partial differential operators of the form $\partial_{h}({\mathscr A}^{hk}(x)\partial_{k})$, were ${\mathscr A}^{hk}(x)$ are $m\times m$ matrices. First, we determine the sharp angle of dissipativity for a general scalar operator with complex coefficients. Next we prove that the two-dimensional elasticity operator is $L^{p}$-dissipative if and only if $$({1\over 2}-{1\over p})^{2} \leq {2(\nu-1)(2\nu-1)\over (3-4\nu)^{2}},$$ $\nu$ being the Poisson ratio. Finally we find a necessary and sufficient algebraic condition for the $L^{p}$-dissipativity of the operator $\partial_{h} ({\mathscr A}^{h}(x)\partial_{h})$, where ${\mathscr A}^{h}(x)$ are $m\times m$ matrices with complex $L^{1}_{\rm loc}$ entries, and we describe the maximum angle of $L^{p}$-dissipativity for this operator.Comment: 42 pages, LaTeX, no figure