Landis' conjecture for general second order elliptic equations with singular lower order terms in the plane (Q2333394)

The authors study the order of vanishing and a quantitative form of Landis' conjecture in the plane for solutions to second-order elliptic equations with variable coefficients and singular lower order terms. They show that the \(L^\infty\) norm of any solution \(u\) of the elliptic equation \[ -\operatorname{div}(A\nabla u + W_1u) + W_2\cdot\nabla u + V u = 0 \] in \(B_d\) satisfies an estimate from below of the following kind \[ \|u\|_{L^\infty(B_r)} \geq r^{CM} \] where \(M\) contains the dependence of the lower order terms on which convenient assumptions have been made. This -- after a suitable rescaling -- may be read as a quantitative form of the Landis' conjecture. The proof uses the theory of elliptic BVPs to establish the existence of positive multipliers associated to the elliptic equation. Then the proofs rely on transforming the equations to Beltrami systems and applying a generalization of Hadamard's three-circle theorem.