DOI: 10.1017/nmj.2026.10126 ISSN: 0027-7630

A remark on unique continuation of Yifei Pan, Yuan Zhang

Abstract

In this article, we extend our earlier unique continuation results of Pan and Zhang (2025, Comm. Anal. Geom. 33, 1975–2014) for the Schrödinger-type inequality

| ∂ ¯ u | ≤ V | u | $ |\bar \partial u| \le V|u|$ StartAbsoluteValue ModifyingAbove partial differential With bar u EndAbsoluteValue less than or equals upper V StartAbsoluteValue u EndAbsoluteValue
on a domain in
C n $\mathbb C^n$ double struck upper C Superscript n
, by removing the smoothness assumption on solutions
u = ( u 1 , … , u N ) $u = (u_1, \ldots , u_N)$ u equals left parenthesis u 1 comma ellipsis comma u Subscript upper N Baseline right parenthesis
. More specifically, we establish the unique continuation property for
W l o c 1 , 1 $W_{loc}^{1,1}$ upper W Subscript l o c Superscript 1 comma 1
solutions when the potential
V ∈ L l o c p $V\in L_{loc}^p $ upper V element of upper L Subscript l o c Superscript p
,
p > 2 n $ p>2n$ p greater than 2 n
, and for
W l o c 1 , 2 n + ϵ $W_{loc}^{1,2n+\epsilon }$ upper W Subscript l o c Superscript 1 comma 2 n plus epsilon
solutions when
V ∈ L l o c 2 n $V\in L_{loc}^{2n}$ upper V element of upper L Subscript l o c Superscript 2 n
with
N = 1 $N=1$ upper N equals 1
or
n = 2 $n = 2$ n equals 2
. Although the unique continuation property fails in general if
V ∈ L l o c p , p < 2 n $V\in L_{loc}^{p}, p<2n$ upper V element of upper L Subscript l o c Superscript p Baseline comma p less than 2 n
, we show that the property still holds for
W l o c 1 , 1 $W_{loc}^{1,1}$ upper W Subscript l o c Superscript 1 comma 1
solutions when
V $V $ upper V
is a small constant multiple of
1 | z | $ \frac {1}{|z|}$ StartFraction 1 Over StartAbsoluteValue z EndAbsoluteValue EndFraction
. The key idea that allows us to lower the regularity assumption is a careful analysis of how regularity and flatness are transferred to the sliced functions along complex radial directions.

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