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Maximally singular solutions of Laplace equations

Analysis of PDEs 2018-05-08 v1

Abstract

It is known that there exists an explicit function FF in L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega), where Ω\Omega is a given bounded open subset of RN\mathbb{R}^N, such that the corresponding weak solution of the Laplace BVP Δu=F(x)-\Delta u=F(x), uH01(Ω)u\in H_0^1(\Omega), is maximally singular; that is, the singular set of uu (defined in the Introduction) has the Hausdorff dimension equal to (N4)+(N-4)^+. This constant is optimal, i.e., the largest possible. Here, we show that much more is true: when N5N \geq 5, there exists FL2(Ω)F\in L^2(\Omega) such that the corresponding weak solution has the pointwise concentration of singular set of uu, in the sense of the Hausdorff dimension, equal to N4N-4 at all points of Ω\Omega. We also consider the problem of generating weak solutions with the property of contrast; that is, we construct solutions uu that are regular (more specifically, of class Cloc2,αC_{loc}^{2,\alpha} for arbitrary α(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1)) in any prescribed open subset Ωr\Omega_r of Ω\Omega, while they are maximally singular in its complement ΩΩr\Omega\setminus\Omega_r. We indicate several open problems.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02581,
  title  = {Maximally singular solutions of Laplace equations},
  author = {J. P. Milišić and D. Žubrinić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02581},
  year   = {2018}
}