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Quantitative propagation of smallness for solutions of elliptic equations

Analysis of PDEs 2017-11-29 v1

Abstract

Let uu be a solution to an elliptic equation div(Au)=0\text{div}(A\nabla u)=0 with Lipschitz coefficients in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Assume u|u| is bounded by 11 in the ball B={x1}B=\{|x|\leq 1\}. We show that if u<ε|u| < \varepsilon on a set E12B E \subset \frac{1}{2} B with positive nn-dimensional Hausdorf measure, then uCεγ on 12B,|u|\leq C\varepsilon^\gamma \text{ on } \frac{1}{2}B, where C>0,γ(0,1)C>0, \gamma \in (0,1) do not depend on uu and depend only on AA and the measure of EE. We specify the dependence on the measure of EE in the form of the Remez type inequality. Similar estimate holds for sets EE with Hausdorff dimension bigger than n1n-1. For the gradients of the solutions we show that a similar propagation of smallness holds for sets of Hausdorff dimension bigger than n1cn-1-c, where c>0c>0 is a small numerical constant depending on the dimension only.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10076,
  title  = {Quantitative propagation of smallness for solutions of elliptic equations},
  author = {Alexander Logunov and Eugenia Malinnikova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10076},
  year   = {2017}
}