Higher order div-curl type estimates for elliptic linear differential operators on localizable Hardy spaces

Abstract

In this work, we establish higher-order div-curl type estimates in the sense of Coifman, Lions, Meyer & Semmes, in a local setting for elliptic homogeneous linear differential operators with smooth coefficients acting on localizable Hardy spaces. Our results imply and extend previously known estimates for first-order operators associated with elliptic systems and complexes of vector fields. As tools of independent interest, we develop a new smooth atomic decomposition for localizable Hardy-Sobolev spaces and prove a Poincar\'e-type inequality in this framework.