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Lack of interior $L^q$ bounds for stable solutions to elliptic equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-24 v1

Abstract

We consider stable solutions of semilinear elliptic equations of the form Δu=f(u)-\Delta u=f(u) in a bounded domain ΩRN\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N. In a well-known paper \cite{cfrs}, Cabr\'e, Figalli, Ros-Oton and Serra obtained interior estimates for the W1,2W^{1,2}-norm of uu in terms of the L1L^1-norm of uu and proved interior H\"older regularity for dimensions N9N\leq 9. All these results rely on the assumption that ff is nonnegative. We show that, for general nonlinearities fC(R)f\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R}), it is impossible, in any dimension N1N\geq 1, to obtain an interior LqL^q estimate in terms of the LpL^p-norm of uu whenever 1p<q1\leq p<q\leq \infty.

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@article{arxiv.2603.20427,
  title  = {Lack of interior $L^q$ bounds for stable solutions to elliptic equations},
  author = {Salvador Villegas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20427},
  year   = {2026}
}

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