Weighted integrability of polyharmonic functions

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Abstract: To address the uniqueness issues associated with the Dirichlet problem for the N-harmonic equation on the unit disk D in the plane, we investigate the Lp integrability of N-harmonic functions with respect to the standard weights (1|z|2)alpha. The question at hand is the following. If u solves DeltaNu=0 in D, where Delta stands for the Laplacian, and [int_D|u(z)|^p (1-|z|^2)^{alpha}diff A(z)<+infty,] must then u(z)equiv0? Here, N is a positive integer, alpha is real, and 0<p<+infty; diffA is the usual area element. The answer will, generally speaking, depend on the triple (N,p,alpha). The most interesting case is 0<p<1. For a given N, we find an explicit critical curve -- a piecewise affine function -- such that for there exist non-trivial functions u with DeltaNu=0 of the given integrability, while for , only u(z)equiv0 is possible. We also investigate the obstruction to uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem, that is, we study the structure of the functions in mathrmPHN,alphap(D) when this space is nontrivial. We find a fascinating structural decomposition of the polyharmonic functions -- the cellular (Almansi) expansion -- which decomposes the polyharmonic weighted Lp in a canonical fashion. Corresponding to the cellular expansion is a tiling of part of the (p,alpha) plane into cells. A particularly interesting collection of cells form the entangled region.



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