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We establish global Gaussian estimates for the Green’s matrix of divergence form, second order parabolic systems in a cylindrical domain under the assumption that weak solutions of the system vanishing on a portion of the boundary satisfy a certain local boundedness estimate and a local Hölder estimate. From these estimates, we also derive global estimates for the Green’s matrix for elliptic systems with bounded measurable coefficients in two dimensional domains. We present a unified approach valid for both the scalar and vectorial cases and discuss several applications of our result.
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Cho, S., Dong, H. & Kim, S. Global Estimates for Green’s Matrix of Second Order Parabolic Systems with Application to Elliptic Systems in Two Dimensional Domains. Potential Anal 36, 339–372 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-011-9234-0
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