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Quantitative unique continuation for non-regular perturbations of the Laplacian

Analysis of PDEs 2024-12-02 v1

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the quantitative estimates of the unique continuation property for solutions of an elliptic equation Δu=Vu+W1u+div(W2u)\Delta u = V u + W_1 \cdot \nabla u + \hbox{div} (W_2 u) in an open, connected subset of Rd\mathbb{R}^d, where d3d \geq 3. Here, VLq0V \in L^{q_0}, W1Lq1W_1 \in L^{q_1}, and W2Lq2W_2 \in L^{q_2} with q0>d/2q_0 > d/2, q1>dq_1 > d, and q2>dq_2 > d. Our aim is to provide an explicit quantification of the unique continuation property with respect to the norms of the potentials. To achieve this, we revisit the Carleman estimates established in [Dehman-Ervedoza-Thabouti-2023] and prove a refined version of them, and we combine them with an argument due to T. Wolff introduced in [Wolff-1992] for the proof of unique continuation for solutions of equations of the form Δu=Vu+W1u\Delta u = V u + W_1 \cdot \nabla u.

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@article{arxiv.2411.19021,
  title  = {Quantitative unique continuation for non-regular perturbations of the Laplacian},
  author = {Pedro Caro and Sylvain Ervedoza and Lotfi Thabouti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19021},
  year   = {2024}
}