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THE UNIQUE CONTINUATION PROPERTY OF $p$-HARMONIC FUNCTIONS ON THE HEISENBERG GROUP

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems Partial differential equations Close-to-elliptic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2018

HAIRONG LIU Open the ORCID record for HAIRONG LIU [Opens in a new window] ,
FANG LIU  and
HUI WU
HAIRONG LIU*
Affiliation:
School of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China email hrliu@njfu.edu.cn
FANG LIU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China email sdqdlf78@126.com
HUI WU
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, PR China email wuhui8668@126.com
*
✉hrliu@njfu.edu.cn
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Abstract

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We introduce an Almgren frequency function of the sub-$p$-Laplace equation on the Heisenberg group to establish a doubling estimate under the assumption that the frequency function is locally bounded. From this, we obtain some partial results on unique continuation for the sub-$p$-Laplace equation.

Keywords

Heisenberg groupfrequency functionunique continuation principle

MSC classification

Primary: 35B60: Continuation and prolongation of solutions
Secondary: 35H20: Subelliptic equations 35J70: Degenerate elliptic equations

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 219 - 230
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

The first author was supported by the NSFC (Grant No. 11401310), the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province and the overseas research program of Jiangsu Province. The second author was supported by the NSFC (Grant No. 11501292).

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