Title: The metric for matrix degenerate Kato square root operators

Abstract: We prove a Kato square root estimate with anisotropically degenerate matrix coefficients. We do so by doing the harmonic analysis using an auxiliary Riemannian metric adapted to the operator. We also derive $L^2$-solvability estimates for boundary value problems for divergence form elliptic equations with matrix degenerate coefficients. Main tools are chain rules and Piola transformations for fields in matrix weighted $L^2$ spaces, under $W^{1,1}$ homeomorphism.