Strong maximum principle for Schrödinger operators with singular potential

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Connections of harmonic functions with differential equations in higher dimensions (31B35) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10)

Abstract: We prove that for every

p > 1

and for every potential

V i n L^{p}

, any nonnegative function satisfying

- D e l t a u + V u g e 0

in an open connected set of

m a t h b b R^{N}

is either identically zero or its level set

u = 0

has zero

W^{2, p}

capacity. This gives an affirmative answer to an open problem of B'enilan and Brezis concerning a bridge between Serrin-Stampacchia's strong maximum principle for

p > f r a c N 2

and Ancona's strong maximum principle for

p = 1

. The proof is based on the construction of suitable test functions depending on the level set

u = 0

and on the existence of solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the Schr"odinger operator with diffuse measure data.

Review text

This paper investigates the strong maximum principle for Schrödinger operators of the form \(-\Delta + V\). The main result is the following. If \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N\) is an open connected set, \(p > 1\), \(V \in L^p(\Omega)\), \(u\in L^1(\Omega)\) is a nonnegative function such that \(Vu \in L^1(\Omega)\) and \(-\Delta u + V u \geq 0\) in the sense of distributions in \(\Omega\), and if the average integral of \(u\) satisfies \(\lim_{r\to 0} \int_{B(x,r)} u = 0\) for every point \(x\) in a compact subset of \(\Omega\) with positive \(W^{2,p}\) capacity, then \(u=0\) almost everywhere in \(\Omega\).

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