Divergence-form equations admitting nowhere $C^1$ Lipschitz weak solutions
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~ introduced there also ensures the existence of Lipschitz weak solutions that are nowhere for the corresponding time-independent equations in bounded domains, under suitable boundary data. In particular, for the smooth strongly polyconvex functions on constructed in that paper for all , the associated Euler--Lagrange equations admit Lipschitz weak solutions that are nowhere and satisfy zero boundary conditions in any bounded domain of . Our approach relies on new building blocks constructed from the same wave cone and -configurations employed in the analysis of diffusion equations.
Cite
@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}
}