Remark on the Helmholtz decomposition in domains with noncompact boundary

Abstract

Let $\Omega$ be a domain with noncompact boundary. It is known that the Helmholtz decomposition is not always valid in $L^p(\Omega)$ except for the energy space $L^2 (\Omega)$. In this paper we consider a typical unbounded domain whose boundary is given as a Lipschitz graph, and show that the Helmholtz decomposition holds in certain anisotropic spaces which include some infinite energy vector fields.