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Divergence-form equations admitting nowhere $C^1$ Lipschitz weak solutions

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-20 v1

Abstract

We study a class of partial differential equations in divergence form that admit highly irregular Lipschitz weak solutions. By reformulating these divergence-form equations as a first-order partial differential relation and adapting the convex integration scheme recently developed in \cite{GKY26} for irregular diffusion equations, we show that the same structural Condition~ONO_N introduced there also ensures the existence of Lipschitz weak solutions that are nowhere C1C^1 for the corresponding time-independent equations in bounded domains, under suitable boundary data. In particular, for the smooth strongly polyconvex functions on R2×n\mathbb{R}^{2\times n} constructed in that paper for all n2n \ge 2, the associated Euler--Lagrange equations admit Lipschitz weak solutions that are nowhere C1C^1 and satisfy zero boundary conditions in any bounded domain of Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Our approach relies on new building blocks constructed from the same wave cone and TN\mathcal{T}_N-configurations employed in the analysis of diffusion equations.

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@article{arxiv.2602.17012,
  title  = {Divergence-form equations admitting nowhere $C^1$ Lipschitz weak solutions},
  author = {Menglan Liao and Baisheng Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17012},
  year   = {2026}
}
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