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Elliptic unique continuation below the Lipschitz threshold

Analysis of PDEs 2025-11-04 v2

Abstract

In this article, we investigate unique continuation principles for solutions uu of uniformly elliptic equations of the form div(Au)=0-\mathrm{div}(A \nabla u) = 0 when AA is less regular than Lipschitz. For general matrices AA, we prove that strong unique continuation holds provided that AA has modulus of continuity ω\omega satisfying the Osgood condition 01ω(t)1dt=\int_0^1 \omega(t)^{-1}dt = \infty, plus some other mild hypotheses. Along with the counterexamples of Mandache, this shows that the sharp condition on AA that guarantees unique continuation is essentially that AA is log-Lipschitz.

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@article{arxiv.2507.23614,
  title  = {Elliptic unique continuation below the Lipschitz threshold},
  author = {Cole Jeznach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23614},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Error found in the proof of Theorem 1.2 for isotropic equations. The main Theorem for anisotropic equations remains

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:27:58.704Z