Critical sets of elliptic equations

DOI10.1002/CPA.21518MaRDI QIDQ5498544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeff Cheeger, Aaron Naber, Daniele Valtorta

Publication date 9 February 2015

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4236

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

Abstract: Given a solution $u$ to a linear homogeneous second order elliptic equation with Lipschitz coefficients, we introduce techniques for giving improved estimates of the critical set $Cr(u)equivx:|ablau|(x)=0$. The results are new even for harmonic functions on $d{R}^n$. Given such a $u$, the standard {it first order} stratification $c{S}^k$ of $u$ separates points $x$ based on the degrees of symmetry of the leading order polynomial of $u-u(x)$. In this paper we give a quantitative stratification $c{S}_{eta,r}^k$ of $u$, which separates points based on the number of {it almost} symmetries of {it approximate} leading order polynomials of $u$ at various scales. We prove effective estimates on the volume of the tubular neighborhood of each $c{S}_{eta,r}^k$, which lead directly to $(n-2+epsilon)$-Minkowski content estimates for the critical set of $u$. With some additional regularity assumptions on the coefficients of the equation, we refine the estimate to a uniform $(n-2)$-Hausdorff measure estimate on the critical set of $u$.

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