Higher Weak Differentiability to Mixed Local and Nonlocal Degenerate Elliptic Equations in the Heisenberg Group

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the higher weak differentiability of solutions to a class of mixed local and nonlocal degenerate elliptic equations in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$. Owing to the non-commutative property and two-step nilpotent Lie algebra structure of $\mathbb{H}^n$, we first employ an iterative scheme involving fractional difference quotients to establish the weak differentiability of solutions in the vertical direction. This is subsequently extended to the horizontal and vertical gradients. Then, by coupling a truncation argument with the difference quotient method, we prove the higher weak differentiability of the gradients of solutions.