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Optimal three-ball inequalities and quantitative uniqueness for the Stokes system

Analysis of PDEs 2008-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the local behavior of a solution to the Stokes system with singular coefficients. One of the main results is the bound on the vanishing order of a nontrivial solution to the Stokes system, which is a quantitative version of the strong unique continuation property. Our proof relies on some delicate Carleman-type estimates. We first use these estimates to derive crucial \emph{optimal} three-ball inequalities. Taking advantage of the optimality, we then derive an upper bound on the vanishing order of any nontrivial solution to the Stokes system from those three-ball inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3730,
  title  = {Optimal three-ball inequalities and quantitative uniqueness for the Stokes system},
  author = {Ching-Lung Lin and Jenn-Nan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3730},
  year   = {2008}
}