Is this statement about the solution to an elliptic problem true.

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Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be an open bounded convex domain. Let $f\in L_2(\Omega)$. We actually know that $f$ doesn't have higher regularity. Let the pair $(\Psi,\vec{\Phi})\in L_2\times H(\mathrm{div})$ be the solution to the following elliptic PDE in mixed form.

\begin{align*} 0&= \vec{\Phi}+\vec{\nabla} \Psi& \mathrm{for\ } x\in \Omega\\ f&= \vec{\nabla}\cdot \vec{\Phi}& \mathrm{for\ } x\in \Omega\\ 0&= \Psi& \mathrm{for\ } x\in \partial\Omega_D\\ 0&= \vec{\Phi}\cdot \vec{\eta}& \mathrm{for\ } x\in \partial\Omega_N \end{align*}

We assume that the measure Dirichlet boundary $\partial\Omega_D$, in nonzero.

Does there exist a constant $C$, dependent only on the domain, such that

$$\left\| \vec{\Phi} \right\|_{L^2} + \sum_{i=1}^d \left\|\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x_i}\Phi_i \right\|_{L^2} \le C \left\| f \right\|_{L^2}?$$

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We use elliptic regularity as follows:

\begin{align*} &\left\| \vec{\Phi} \right\|_{L^2} + \sum_{i=1}^d \left\|\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x_i}\Phi_i \right\|_{L^2}\\ &\le \left\| \vec{\Phi} \right\|_{L^2} + \left| \vec{\Phi} \right|_{H^1}\\ &= \left\| \vec{\Phi} \right\|_{L^2} + \left| \Psi \right|_{H^2}\\ &= \left| \Psi \right|_{H^1} + \left| \Psi \right|_{H^2} \\ &\le \left\| \Psi \right\|_{H^2}\\ &\le C \left\|f\right\|_{L^2} \end{align*}

We use elliptic regularity in the last inequality. Note that here is where we use the fact that the domain is convex. Is there a problem with this estimate? All references I have seen for elliptic regularity results assume that there is no Neumann boundary. I appreciate any references to the literature where elliptic regularity is proven for this case.

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As long as the Dirichlet boundary is of positive measure your proof looks correct. Note that the Neumann boundary condition is necessary for the well-posed part. Once you know your solution exists and is unique, you may replace Neumann with a Dirichlet condition.