Coercivity of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator and Applications to the Muskat Problem

Abstract

We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator in strip-like and half-space domains with Lipschitz boundary. It is shown that the quadratic form generated by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator controls some sharp homogeneous fractional Sobolev norms. As an application, we prove that the global Lipschitz solutions constructed in Dong et al. (2021) for the one-phase Muskat problem decays exponentially in time in any Hölder norm C^α, α ∈ (0,1).