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Improved regularity of second derivatives for subharmonic functions

Analysis of PDEs 2021-10-07 v1

Abstract

In this note, we prove that if a subharmonic function Δu0\Delta u\ge 0 has pure second derivatives iiu\partial_{ii} u that are signed measures, then their negative part (iiu)(\partial_{ii} u)_- belongs to L1L^1 (in particular, it is not singular). We then show that this improvement of regularity cannot be upgraded to LpL^p for any p>1p > 1. We finally relate this problem to a natural question on the one-sided regularity of solutions to the obstacle problem with rough obstacles.

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@article{arxiv.2110.02602,
  title  = {Improved regularity of second derivatives for subharmonic functions},
  author = {Xavier Fernández-Real and Riccardo Tione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.02602},
  year   = {2021}
}
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