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Unique continuation at the boundary for harmonic functions in $C^1$ domains and Lipschitz domains with small constant

Analysis of PDEs 2021-05-12 v6 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Let ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n be a C1C^1 domain, or more generally, a Lipschitz domain with small local Lipschitz constant. In this paper it is shown that if uu is a function harmonic in Ω\Omega and continuous in Ω\overline \Omega which vanishes in a relatively open subset ΣΩ\Sigma\subset\partial\Omega and moreover the normal derivative νu\partial_\nu u vanishes in a subset of Σ\Sigma with positive surface measure, then uu is identically 00.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10721,
  title  = {Unique continuation at the boundary for harmonic functions in $C^1$ domains and Lipschitz domains with small constant},
  author = {Xavier Tolsa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10721},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

More detailed explanation in some argument involving integration by parts and in Remark 3.3. An additional appendix with a self-contained proof of Lemma 4.3, whose proof was not included in the paper previously