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On the weak continuity of elliptic operators and applications to potential theory. (English) Zbl 1067.35023

Summary: We establish weak continuity results for quasilinear elliptic and subelliptic operators of divergence form, acting on corresponding classes of subharmonic functions. These results are analogous to our earlier results for fully nonlinear \(k\)-Hessian operators. From the weak continuity, we derive various potential theoretic results including capacity estimates, potential estimates and the Wiener criterion for regular boundary points. Our methods make substantial use of Harnack inequalities for solutions.

MSC:

35H20 Subelliptic equations
35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations
35J65 Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations