ABSTRACT

In this chapter we generalize the results in Chapters 2 and 6 to a class of linear degenerate elliptic operators in Cb(R

N ) of the type

(Au)(x) = r∑

qij(x)Diju(x) +

bijxjDiu(x), x ∈ R N , (14.0.1)

under the following assumptions on the coefficients and on r.