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The conormal and Robin boundary value problems in nonsmooth domains satisfying a measure condition

We consider elliptic equations and systems in divergence form with the conormal or the Robin boundary conditions, with small BMO (bounded mean oscillation) or variably partially small BMO coefficients. We propose a new class of domains which are locally close to a half space (or convex domains) with respect to the Lebesgue measure in the system (or scalar, respectively) case, and obtain the $W^1_p$ estimate for the conormal problem with the homogeneous boundary condition. Such condition is weaker than the Reifenberg flatness condition, for which the closeness is measured in terms of the Hausdorff distance, and the semi-convexity condition. For the conormal problem with inhomogeneous boundary conditions, we also assume that the domain is Lipschitz. By using these results, we obtain the $W^1_p$ and weighted $W^1_p$ estimates for the Robin problem in these domains.