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c JOURNAL OF 2008, Scientific Horizon FUNCTION SPACES AND APPLICATIONS Volume 8, Number 1 (2008), 47–58 The Dirichlet Problem for elliptic equations in unbounded domains of the plane Paola Cavaliere and Maria Transirico (Communicated by Josip Peˇcari´c) 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35J25, 35R05. Keywords and phrases. Elliptic equations, VMO-coefficients. Abstract. In this paper we prove a uniqueness and existence theorem for the Dirichlet problem in W 2,p for second order linear elliptic equations in unbounded domains of the plane. Here the leading coefficients are locally of class VMO and satisfy a suitable condition at infinity. 1. Introduction Consider the Dirichlet problem u ∈ W 2,p (Ω)∩ ◦ 1,p (Ω) , W (1.1) Lu = f , f ∈ Lp (Ω) , where Ω is an open subset of Rn , n ≥ 2, with a suitable regularity property, p ∈ ]1, +∞[, and L is a second-order, linear, uniformly elliptic operator, i.e. n 2 n ∂ ∂ (1.2) L = − aij + ai + a . ∂x ∂x ∂x i j i i,j=1 i=1 48 Dirichlet Problem for elliptic equations If n ≥ 3, p n and Ω is bounded, it is well known that the sole assumption (1.3) aij = aji ∈ L∞ (Ω) (together with suitable summability conditions for the coefficients