Removable singularities for nonlinear subequations

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2014.63.5398zbMATH Open1308.35110arXiv1303.0437OpenAlexW2963468932MaRDI QIDQ2940952FDOQ2940952

Authors: F. Reese Harvey, H. Blaine jun. Lawson 

Publication date: 21 January 2015

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of removable singularities for degenerate elliptic equations. Let F be a fully nonlinear second-order partial differential subequation of degenerate elliptic type on a manifold X. We study the question: Which closed subsets E in X have the property that every F-subharmonic function (subsolution) on X-E, which is locally bounded across E, extends to an F-subharmonic function on X. We also study the related question for F-harmonic functions (solutions) which are continuous across E. Main results assert that if there exists a convex cone subequation M such that F+M is contained in F, then any closed set E which is M-polar has these properties. To be M-polar means that E = {f = -infty} where f is M-subharmonic on X and smooth outside of E. Many examples and generalizations are given. These include removable singularity results for all branches of the complex and quaternionic Monge-Ampere equations, and a general removable singularity result for the harmonics of geometrically defined subequations. For pure second-order subequations in R^n with monotonicity cone M, the Riesz characteristic p = p(M) is introduced, and extension theorems are proved for any closed singular set E of locally finite Hausdorff (p-2)-measure (or, more generally, of (p-2)-capacity zero). This applies for example to branches of the equation s_k(D^2 u) = 0 (kth elementary function) where p(M) = n/k. For convex cone subequations themselves, several removable singularity theorems are proved, independent of the results above.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0437

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zbMATH Keywords

fully nonlinear equationsRiesz potentialsremovable singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pluriharmonic and plurisubharmonic functions (31C10) Plurisubharmonic functions and generalizations (32U05) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Complex Monge-Ampère operators (32W20) Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations (35B99) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

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