Carleman inequalities and unique continuation for the polyharmonic operators (Q6147072)

This article is concerned with Carleman inequalities and unique continuation for the polyharmonic operators. Precisely, the authors obtain that the inequality \(\| e^{v\cdot x} u\|_{L^q(\mathbb{R}^d)}\leq C \| e^{v\cdot x} (-\Delta u)^k\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^d)}\) holds for all \(u\in C^\infty_0(\mathbb{R}^d)\), \(v\in \mathbb{R}^d\) if and only if \(1<p,q<\infty\) satisfy \(\frac{1}{p}-\frac{1}{q}=\frac{2k}{d}\) and \(\frac{(d+2k)(d-2)}{2d(d-1)}\leq \frac{1}{p}\leq \frac{d+2k}{2(d-1)}\). As an application, the unique continuation property for the differential inequality \(|\Delta^k u|\leq |Vu|\) is discussed.