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Here uniform ellipticity means that there is a constant $\lambda >0$, independent of $x$, such thatThe assumption that the entries are essentially bounded functions also gives an upper bound $|a(x)\xi |\le \Lambda |\xi |$ with a finite constant $\Lambda$. For this symmetric divergence-form operator, the lower bound makes its energy control the squared Euclidean norm of the gradient.