Quantitative uniqueness for elliptic equations at the boundary of \(C^{1,\operatorname{Dini}}\) domains (Q329244)

Based on a variant of the frequency function approach of Almgren, the authors establish an optimal upper bound on the vanishing order of solutions to variable coefficient Schrödinger equations \(\operatorname{div}(A(x)Du)=V(x)u\) at a portion of the boundary of a \(C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}\) domain. Such bound provides a quantitative form of strong unique continuation at the boundary. It can be thought of as a boundary analogue of an interior result recently obtained by Bakri and Zhu for the standard Laplacian.