Boundary value problems with measures for elliptic equations with singular potentials

Abstract

We study the boundary value problem with Radon measures for nonnegative solutions of $L_Vu:=-\Delta u+Vu=0$ in a bounded smooth domain $\Gw$, when $V$ is a locally bounded nonnegative function. Introducing some specific capacity, we give sufficient conditions on a Radon measure $\gm$ on $\prt\Gw$ so that the problem can be solved. We study the reduced measure associated to this equation as well as the boundary trace of positive solutions. In the appendix A. Ancona solves a question raised by M. Marcus and L. V\'eron concerning the vanishing set of the Poisson kernel of $L_V$ for an important class of potentials $V$.