Layer Potentials and Boundary-Value Problems for Second Order Elliptic Operators with Data in Besov Spaces

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This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of second order divergence form elliptic operators with bounded measurable t t -independent coefficients in spaces of fractional smoothness, in Besov and weighted L p L^p classes. We establish: (1) Mapping properties for the double and single layer potentials, as well as the Newton potential; (2) Extrapolation-type solvability results: the fact that solvability of the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary value problem at any given L p L^p space automatically assures their solvability in an extended range of Besov spaces; (3) Well-posedness for the non-homogeneous boundary value problems. In particular, we prove well-posedness of the non-homogeneous Dirichlet problem with data in Besov spaces for operators with real, not necessarily symmetric coefficients.