A regularity result for $BV^{\mathcal{A}}(Ω)$

Abstract

It is well known that distributions whose symmetrized gradient is a bounded Radon measure belong to the space $BD$ on bounded domains with $\mathcal{C}^1$ boundary. In this work, we extend this result to a broader class of first-order linear elliptic operators. More precisely, let $\mathcal{A}$ be a first-order linear elliptic operator satisfying the rank-one property. We prove that if a distribution defined on a Lipschitz domain has bounded $\mathcal{A}$-variation, then it belongs to the space $BV^{\mathcal{A}}$.