In 1995, D. Jerison and C. Kenig in \cite{ JK-1995} considered the the inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem $\Delta u= f$ on $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$ in Lipschitz domains. One of their main results shows that the $W^{ 1,p}$ estimate holds for the sharp range $\frac{ 3}{ 2}-\varepsilon<p<3+\varepsilon$ for $d\geq 3$ and $\frac{ 4}{ 3}-\varepsilon<p<4+\varepsilon$ if $d=2$. Although the argument employed in \cite{ JK-1995} yields optimal results, they rely on an essential fashion on the maximum principle and, as such, do not readily adapt to higher-order case. By using a new method, the aim of this paper is to establish an extension of their theorem for higher order inhomogeneous elliptic equations on bounded Lipschitz and convex domains, uniform $W^{ \ell,p}$ estimates are obtained for $p$ in certain ranges. Especially, compare to the result in \cite{ MM-2013} for biharmonic equation, a larger, sharp, range of $p's$ was obtained in this paper.
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