The model problem of a plane angle for a second-order elliptic system
subject to Dirichlet, mixed, and Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed.
For each boundary condition, the existence of solutions of the form
is reduced to spectral analysis of a particular matrix. Focusing
on Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions, optimal bounds on
are
derived, employing tools from numerical range analysis and accretive operator theory.
The developed framework is novel and recovers known bounds for Dirichlet boundary
conditions. The results for mixed boundary conditions are new and represent the
central contribution of this work. Immediate applications of these findings are new
regularity results for linear second-order elliptic systems subject to mixed boundary
conditions.