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This is the final part of a series of papers where we study perturbations of divergence form second order elliptic operators $-\operatorname{div} A \nabla$ by first and zero order terms, whose complex coefficients lie in critical spaces,…

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In this note, we study the complex constant rank condition for differential operators and its implications for coercive differential inequalities. These are inequalities of the form \[ \Vert A u \Vert_{L^p} \leq \Vert \mathscr{A} u…

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