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Quantitative uniqueness of solutions to second order elliptic equations with singular lower order terms

Analysis of PDEs 2017-05-24 v2

Abstract

In this article, we study the quantitative uniqueness of solutions to second order elliptic equations with singular lower order terms. We quantify the strong unique continuation property by estimating the maximal vanishing order of solutions. That is, when uu is a non-trivial solution to u+Wu+Vu=0\triangle u + W \cdot \nabla u + V u = 0 in some open, connected subset of Rn\mathbb R^n, where n3n \geq 3, we characterize the vanishing order of solutions in terms of the norms of VV and WW in their respective Lebesgue spaces. Using these maximal order of vanishing estimates, we also establish quantitative unique continuation at infinity results for solutions to u+Wu+Vu=0\triangle u + W \cdot \nabla u + V u = 0 in Rn\mathbb R^n. The main tools in our work are new versions of LpLqL^p\to L^q Carleman estimates for a range of pp- and qq-values.

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@article{arxiv.1702.04742,
  title  = {Quantitative uniqueness of solutions to second order elliptic equations with singular lower order terms},
  author = {Blair Davey and Jiuyi Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04742},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

reorganize the introduction

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:19:33.482Z