On sublevel set estimates and the Laplacian

DOI10.1007/S11118-020-09847-3zbMATH Open1481.35138arXiv1905.13176OpenAlexW3021590687MaRDI QIDQ2039093FDOQ2039093

Stefan Steinerberger

Publication date: 2 July 2021

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Carbery proved that if $u:mathbb{R}^{n}ightarrowmathbbR$ is a positive, strictly convex function satisfying $det{D}^{2}ugeq1$, then we have the estimate ${\displaystyle }$ left| left{x in mathbb{R}^n: u(x) leq s ight} ight| lesssim_n s^{n/2}${\displaystyle }$ and this is optimal. We give a short proof that also implies other results. Our main result is an estimate for the sublevel set of functions $u:[0,1{]}^{2}ightarrowmathbbR$ satisfying $1leqDeltauleqc$ for some universal constant $c$: for any $alpha>0$, we have ${\displaystyle }$ left| left{x in [0,1]^2 : |u(x)| leq varepsilon ight} ight| lesssim_{c} sqrt{varepsilon} + varepsilon^{alpha - frac12} int_{[0,1]^2}{frac{| abla u|}{|u|^{alpha}} dx}.${\displaystyle }$ For 'typical' functions, we expect the integral to be finite for $alpha<1$. While Carbery-Christ-Wright have shown that no sublevel set estimates independent of $u$ exist, this result shows that for 'typical' functions satisfying $Deltaugeq1$, we expect the sublevel set to be $lesssimvarepsilo{n}^{1/2-}$. We do not know whether this is sharp or whether similar statements are true in higher dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13176

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace operatorBrownian motionpotential theoryHessiansublevel set estimatechampagne domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

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