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$L^2$-boundedness of gradients of single-layer potentials and uniform rectifiability

### Laura Prat, Carmelo Puliatti and Xavier Tolsa

Vol. 14 (2021), No. 3, 717–791
##### Abstract

Let $A\left(\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\cdot \phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\right)$ be an $\left(n+1\right)×\left(n+1\right)$ uniformly elliptic matrix with Hölder continuous real coefficients and let ${\mathsc{ℰ}}_{A}\left(x,y\right)$ be the fundamental solution of the PDE $divA\left(\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\cdot \phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\right)\nabla u=0$ in ${ℝ}^{n+1}$. Let $\mu$ be a compactly supported $n$-AD-regular measure in ${ℝ}^{n+1}$ and consider the associated operator

${T}_{\mu }f\left(x\right)=\int {\nabla }_{x}{\mathsc{ℰ}}_{A}\left(x,y\right)\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}f\left(y\right)\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}d\mu \left(y\right).$

We show that if ${T}_{\mu }$ is bounded in ${L}^{2}\left(\mu \right)$, then $\mu$ is uniformly $n$-rectifiable. This extends the solution of the codimension-$1$ David–Semmes problem for the Riesz transform to the gradient of the single-layer potential. Together with a previous result of Conde-Alonso, Mourgoglou and Tolsa, this shows that, given $E\subset {ℝ}^{n+1}$ with finite Hausdorff measure ${\mathsc{ℋ}}^{n}$, if ${T}_{{\mathsc{ℋ}}^{n}{|}_{E}}$ is bounded in ${L}^{2}\left({\mathsc{ℋ}}^{n}{|}_{E}\right)$, then $E$ is $n$-rectifiable. Further, as an application we show that if the elliptic measure associated to the above PDE is absolutely continuous with respect to surface measure, then it must be rectifiable, analogously to what happens with harmonic measure.

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##### Keywords
David–Semmes problem, uniform rectifiability, gradient of the single-layer potential, elliptic measure, rectifiability
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 28A75, 31B15, 35J15, 42B37
##### Milestones
Received: 26 November 2018
Revised: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 21 November 2019
Published: 18 May 2021
##### Authors
 Laura Prat Departament de Matemàtiques Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Bellaterra (Barcelona) Catalonia Carmelo Puliatti Departament de Matemàtiques and BGSMath Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra (Barcelona) Catalonia Xavier Tolsa ICREA Bellaterra (Barcelona) Catalonia Departament de Matemàtiques and BGSMath Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra (Barcelona) Catalonia