Family of capacities that characterize removable singularities (Q1823381)

Let P be a scalar elliptic partial differential operator having a fundamental solution in a bounded domain \(\Omega\), \(K\subset \Omega\) and \(B(\Omega)=C({\bar \Omega})\), \(C^{\lambda}({\bar \Omega})\) \((0<\lambda \leq 1)\), \(L_ q(\Omega)\) \((1<q\leq \infty)\). Then K is removable for B(\(\Omega)\) with respect to P (i.e. \(u\in B(\Omega)\), \(Pu=0\) in \(\Omega\) \(\setminus K\) imply that \(Pu=0\) in \(\Omega)\) if and only if \[ B-cap_ P(K,\Omega)=\sup_{u\in {\mathcal O}(\Omega \setminus K)\cap B(\Omega),\| u\| \leq 1}| <Pu,1>/ \] is equal to 0 where \({\mathcal O}(\Omega ')=\{u\in {\mathcal D}'(\Omega ')\), \(Pu=0\}\). A more general theorem is also proved.