Recent work on sharp estimates in second-order elliptic unique continuation problems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Recent work on sharp estimates in second-order elliptic unique continuation problems
zbMATH Open document ID: 0787.35017
DOI: 10.1007/BF02921325
author: Thomas H. Wolff
published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis
publication date: 1994-03-27T00:00:00Z
review text: This expository article concerns differential inequalities of the type \[ \left| \sum^ n_{i,j=1}a_{ij} \partial_ i \partial_ ju \right| \leq A | u |+B | \nabla u | \quad \text{in } \Omega, \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is a domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\), \(A\) and \(B\) are functions on \(\Omega\), and \((a_{ij}(x))\) is a positive definite matrix which depends locally Lipschitz continuously on \(x \in \Omega\). Equation (1) is said to have the unique continuation property - UCP (resp. the strong unique continuation property -SUCP) if every solution \(u \in W^{2,2}_{\text{loc}}\) of (1) that vanishes on an open subset of \(\Omega\) (resp. that vanishes to infinite order at a point of \(\Omega)\) vanishes identically. The author shows: (1) has the UCP (resp. the SUCP) if \(A \in L^{n/2}_{\text{loc}}\), \(B\in L^ n_{\text{loc}}\) and \(n \geq 5\) (resp. if \(A\) and \(B\) are locally bounded). Moreover, for the case \(a_{ij}=\delta_{ij}\) (the Kronecker symbol) he proves more special results, and he discusses (by means of counterexamples) the question whether or not these results are sharp. The proofs of all ``positive'' results use Carleman inequalities.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35B60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J15
zbMATH DE Number: 513365
zbMATH Keywords: second order elliptic equation
zbMATH Keywords: expository article
zbMATH Keywords: differential inequalities
zbMATH Keywords: unique continuation property
zbMATH Keywords: strong unique continuation property
zbMATH Keywords: counterexamples
zbMATH Keywords: Carleman inequalities
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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