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Unique continuation at the boundary for divergence form elliptic equations on quasiconvex domains

Analysis of PDEs 2024-05-24 v3

Abstract

Let ΩRd\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d be a quasiconvex Lipschitz domain and A(x)A(x) be a d×dd \times d uniformly elliptic, symmetric matrix with Lipschitz coefficients. Assume a nontrivial uu solves (A(x)u)=0-\nabla \cdot (A(x) \nabla u) = 0 in Ω\Omega, and uu vanishes on Σ=ΩB\Sigma = \partial \Omega \cap B for some ball BB. The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the existence of a countable collection of open balls (Bi)i(B_i)_i such that the restriction of uu to BiΩB_i \cap \Omega maintains a consistent sign. Furthermore, for any compact subset KK of Σ\Sigma, the set difference KiBiK \setminus \bigcup_i B_i is shown to possess a Minkowski dimension that is strictly less than d1ϵd - 1 - \epsilon. As a consequence, we prove Lin's conjecture in quasiconvex domains.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05044,
  title  = {Unique continuation at the boundary for divergence form elliptic equations on quasiconvex domains},
  author = {Yingying Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05044},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Correct many typos and add reference. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2303.02046, arXiv:2201.12307 by other authors