We give two different simple proofs for the removable singularities of the heat equation in $(Ω\setminus\{x_0\})\times (0,T)$ with $n\ge 3$. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for removable singularities of the heat equation in $(Ω\setminus\{x_0\})\times (0,T)$ for the case $n=2$.
We prove a removable singularities theorem for point singularities of the coupled yang mills fermion equations, on a bundle over a two dimensional base space.
We obtain sufficient conditions for solutions of the $m$th-order differential inequality $$ \sum_{|α| = m} \partial^αa_α(x, u) \ge f (x) g (|u|) \quad \mbox{in } B_1 \setminus \{ 0 \} $$ to have a removable singularity at zero, where $a_α$, $f$, and $g$ are some functions, and $B_1 = \{ x : |x| < 1 \}$ is a unit ball in ${\mathbb R}^n$. Constructed examples demonstrate the exactness of these conditions.
It is well known that sets of $p$-capacity zero are removable for bounded $p$-harmonic functions, but on metric spaces there are examples of removable sets of positive capacity. In this paper, we show that this can happen even on unweighted $\mathbf{R}^n$ when $n > p$, although only in very special cases. A complete characterization of removable singularities for bounded $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions on weighted $\mathbf{R}^n$, $n \ge 1$, is also given, where the weight is $p$-admissible. The same characterization is also shown to hold for bounded quasiharmonic functions on weighted $\mathb…
In this paper we introduce some fully nonlinear second order operators defined as weighted partial sums of the eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix, arising in geometrical contexts, with the aim to extend maximum principles and removable singularities results to cases of highly degenerate ellipticity.nn
In this paper we give a new, less restrictive condition for removability of singular sets, $E$, of smooth solutions to the m-Hessian equation (and also for more general fully nonlinear elliptic equations) in $Ω\setminus E$, $Ω\subset \mathbb R^n$. Besides the existence and regularity results for these equations, the proof only makes use of the classical elliptic theory, i.e. the classical maximum principles and a Hopf lemma.
In this paper we study removable singularities for solutions of the fractional heat equation in time varying domains. We introduce associated capacities and we study some of its metric and geometric properties.
This paper surveys some recent results on existence, uniqueness and removable singularities for fully nonlinear differential equations on manifolds. The discussion also treats restriction theorems and the strong Bellman principle.
We study the removability of a singular set in the boundary of Neumann problem for elliptic equations with variable exponent. We consider the case where the singular set is compact, and give sufficient conditions for removability of this singularity for equations in the variable exponent Sobolev space.
We consider solutions of the linear heat equation with time-dependent singularities. It is shown that if a singularity is weaker than the order of the fundamental solution of the Laplace equation, then it is removable. We also consider the removability of higher dimensional singular sets. An example of a non-removable singularity is given, which implies the optimality of the condition for removability.
We study the removability of a singular set for elliptic equations involving weight functions and variable exponents. We consider the case where the singular set satisfies conditions related to some generalization of upper Minkowski content or a net measure, and give sufficient conditions for removability of this singularity for equations in the weighted variable exponent Sobolev spaces.
We study the Yamabe flow on a Riemannian manifold of dimension $m\geq3$ minus a closed submanifold of dimension $n$ and prove that there exists an instantaneously complete solution if and only if $n>\frac{m-2}{2}$. In the remaining cases $0\leq n\leq\frac{m-2}{2}$ including the borderline case, we show that the removability of the $n$-dimensional singularity is necessarily preserved along the Yamabe flow. In particular, the flow must remain geodesically incomplete as long as it exists. This is contrasted with the two-dimensional case, where instantaneously complete solutions always exist.
Let $w\in L^1\_{loc}(\R^n)$ be apositive weight. Assuming that a doubling condition and an $L^1$ Poincaré inequality on balls for the measure $w(x)dx$, as well as a growth condition on $w$, we prove that the compact subsets of $\R^n$ which are removable for the distributional divergence in $L^{\infty}\_{1/w}$ are exactly those with vanishing weighted Hausdorff measure. We also give such a characterization for $L^p\_{1/w}$, $1\textless{}p\textless{}+\infty$, in terms of capacity. This generalizes results due to Phuc and Torres, Silhavy and the first author.
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 contain…
We give a classification of non-removable isolated singularities for real analytic solutions of the prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski $3$-space.
In this paper, we study the local behavior of nonnegative solutions of fractional semi-linear equations $(-Δ)^σu = u^p$ with an isolated singularity, where $\sg \in (0, 1)$ and $\frac{n}{n-2\sg} < p < \frac{n+2\sg}{n-2\sg}$. We first use blow up method and a Liouville type theorem to derive an upper bound. Then we establish a monotonicity formula and a sufficient condition for removable singularity to give a classification of the isolated singularities. When $\sg=1$, this classification result has been proved by Gidas and Spruck (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 34: 525-598, 1981).
In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of the biharmonic equation $$ Δ^2 u = u^p~~~~~~~in ~ B_1 \backslash \{0\}$$ with an isolated singularity, where the punctured ball $B_1 \backslash \{0\} \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq 5$ and $\frac{n}{n-4} < p < \frac{n+4}{n-4}$. This equation is relevant for the $Q$-curvature problem in conformal geometry. We classify isolated singularities of positive solutions and describe the asymptotic behavior of positive singular solutions without the sign assumption for $-Δu$. We also give a new method to prove removable singul…
A famous theorem of Bers and Finn states that isolated singularities of solutions to the non-parametric minimal surface equation are removable. We show that this result remains valid, if the area functional is replaced by a general functional of linear growth depending on the modulus of the gradient. We emphasize that Serrin ([1]) in fact proved the removability of singularities on sets of $(n-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure zero in an even more general setting. Our main interest is to generalize the comparison principles as outlined, for instance, in Section 10 of [2] without having the par…
We study properties of positive functions satisfying (E) --$Δ$u+m|$\nabla$u| q -- u p = 0 is a domain $Ω$ or in R N + when p > 1 and 1 < q < 2. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to (E) with a nonnegative measure $μ$ as boundary data, and these conditions are expressed in terms of Bessel capacities on the boundary. We also study removable boundary singularities and solutions with an isolated singularity on $\partial$$Ω$. The different results depends on two critical exponents for p = p c := N +1 N --1 and for q = q c := N +1 N and on the position of q with respect to…
We study some qualitative properties (including removable singularities and superharmonicity) of non-negative solutions to $$ (-Δ)^γu=fu^p\quad\text{in }\mathbb R^n\setminusΣ$$ which are singular at $Σ$. Here $γ\in (0, \frac{n}{2})$. Among other things, we first prove that if $Σ$ is a compact set in $\mathbb R^n$ with Assouad dimension $\bf d$ (not necessarily an integer), ${\bf d}<n-2γ$, and $ u\in L_γ(\mathbb R^n)\cap L^p_{loc}({\mathbb R^n\setminusΣ})$ is a non-negative solution for some $$p>\frac{n-\bf d}{n-{\bf d}-2γ},$$ then $u\in L^p_{loc}(\mathbb R^n)$ and $u$ is a distributional solut…
We study the boundary behaviour of the solutions of (E) $-Δ_p u+|\nabla u|^q=0$ in a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, when $N\geq p > q >p-1$. We show the existence of a critical exponent $q_* < p$ such that if $p-1 < q < q_*$ there exist positive solutions of (E) with an isolated singularity on $\partialΩ$ and that these solutions belong to two different classes of singular solutions. If $q_*\leq q < p$ no such solution exists and actually any boundary isolated singularity of a positive solution of (E) is removable. We prove that all the singular positive solutions are classified according the…
We study the behavior of positive solutions of p-Laplacian type elliptic equations of the form Q'(u) := -p-Laplacian(u) + V |u|^(p-2) u = 0 in Omega near an isolated singular point zeta, where 1 < p < inf, Omega is a domain in R^d with d > 1, and zeta = 0 or zeta = inf. We obtain removable singularity theorems for positive solutions near zeta. In particular, using a new three-spheres theorems for certain solutions of the above equation near zeta we prove that if V belongs to a certain Kato class near zeta and p>d (respectively, p<d), then any positive solution u of the equation Q'(u)=0 in a pu…
We consider solutions of the linear heat equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with isolated singularities. It is assumed that the position of a singular point depends on time and is Hölder continuous with the exponent $α\in (0,1)$. We show that any isolated singularity is removable if it is weaker than a certain order depending on $α$. We also show the optimality of the removability condition by showing the existence of a solution with a nonremovable singularity. These results are applied to the case where the singular point behaves like a fractional Brownian motion with the Hurst exponent $H \in (0,1/2…
We study some properties of the solutions of (E) $\;-\Gd_p u+|\nabla u|^q=0$ in a domain $\Gw \sbs \BBR^N$, mostly when $p\geq q>p-1$. We give a universal priori estimate of the gradient of the solutions with respect to the distance to the boundary. We give a full classification of the isolated singularities of the positive solutions of (E), a partial classification of isolated singularities of the negative solutions. We prove a general removability result in expressed in terms of some Bessel capacity of the removable set. We extend our estimates to equations on complete non compact manifolds …
In this paper, we solve the fractional Lane-Emden equation in the Serrin's critical case for the fractional Laplacian by developing an innovative and self-contained approach that also applies to the classical setting ( Laplacian). We give a classification of the isolated singularities of positive solutions to the semilinear fractional elliptic equations $$(E) \qquad\qquad (-Δ)^s u = u^{\frac{N}{N-2s}}\quad {\rm in}\ \ Ω\setminus\{0\},\qquad u\geq 0\quad{\rm in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^N\setminusΩ,\qquad\qquad\quad $$ where $s\in(0,1)$, $Ω$ is a bounded domain containing the origin in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with…
In this paper, we are devoted to studying the positive solutions of the following higher order Hardy-Hénon equation $$ (-Δ)^{m}u=|x|^αu^{p} \quad\mbox{in}~ B_{1}\setminus\{0\}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n} $$ with an isolated singularity at the origin, where $α>-2m$, $m\geq1$ is an integer and $n>2m$. For $1<p<\frac{n+2m}{n-2m}$, singularity and decay estimates of solutions will be given. For $\frac{n+α}{n-2m}<p<\frac{n+2m}{n-2m}$ with $-2m<α<2m$, we show the super polyharmonic properties of solutions near the singularity, which are essential tools in the study of polyharmonic equation. Using these pro…
We consider positive solutions $u$ of the semilinear biharmonic equation $Δ^2 u = |x|^{-\frac{n+4}{2}} g(|x|^\frac{n-4}{2} u)$ in $\mathbb R^n \setminus \{0\}$ with non-removable singularities at the origin. Under natural assumptions on the nonlinearity $g$, we show that $|x|^\frac{n-4}{2} u$ is a periodic function of $\ln |x|$ and we classify all such solutions.
Let $\mathcal{M}_1$ denote the space of solutions $z(x,y)$ to an elliptic, real analytic Monge-Ampère equation ${\rm det} (D^2 z)=φ(x,y,z,Dz)>0$ whose graphs have a non-removable isolated singularity at the origin. We prove that $\mathcal{M}_1$ is in one-to-one correspondence with $\mathcal{M}_2\times Z_2$, where $\mathcal{M}_2$ is a suitable subset of the class of regular, real analytic strictly convex Jordan curves in $R^2$. We also describe the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation in the $C^k$-smooth case, and a general existence theorem for isolated singularities o…
We obtain left and right continuous embeddings for the domains of the complex powers of sectorial $\mathbb{B}$-elliptic cone differential operators. We apply this result to the heat equation on manifolds with conical singularities and provide asymptotic expansions of the unique solution close to the conical points. We further show that the decomposition of the solution in terms of asymptotics spaces, i.e. finite dimensional spaces that describe the domains of the integer powers of the Laplacian and determined by the local geometry around the singularity, is preserved under the evolution.
In this paper, we study existence, regularity, classification, and asymptotical behaviors of solutions of some Monge-Ampère equations with isolated and line singularities. We classify all solutions of $\det \nabla^2 u=1$ in $\R^n$ with one puncture point. This can be applied to characterize ellipsoids, in the same spirit of Serrin's overdetermined problem for the Laplace operator. In the case of having $k$ non-removable singular points for $k>1$, modulo affine equivalence the set of all generalized solutions can be identified as an explicit orbifold of finite dimension. We also establish exist…
We study the boundary behaviour of the of (E) $-\Gd u-\myfrac{\xk }{d^2(x)}u+g(u)=0$, where $0<\xk <\frac{1}{4}$ and $g$ is a continuous nonndecreasing function in a bounded convex domain of $\BBR^N$. We first construct the Martin kernel associated to the the linear operator $\CL_{\xk }=-\Gd-\frac{\xk }{d^2(x)}$ and give a general condition for solving equation (E) with any Radon measure $\gm$ for boundary data. When $g(u)=|u|^{q-1}u$ we show the existence of a critical exponent $q_c=q_c(N,\xk )>1$: when $0<q<q_c$ any measure is eligible for solving (E) with $\gm$ for boundary data; if $q\geq …
In this article, we study the the harmonic map heat flow from a manifold with conic singularities to a closed manifold. In particular, we have proved the short time existence and uniqueness of solutions as well as the existence of global solutions into manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature. These results are established in virtue of the maximal regularity theory on manifolds with conic singularities.
In this paper, we classify the singularities of nonnegative solutions to fractional elliptic equation \begin{equation}\label{eq 0.1} \arraycolsep=1pt \begin{array}{lll} \displaystyle (-Δ)^αu=u^p\quad &{\rm in}\quad Ω\setminus\{0\},\\[2mm] \phantom{ (-Δ)^α} \displaystyle u=0\quad &{\rm in}\quad \mathbb{R}^N\setminusΩ, \end{array} \end{equation} where $p>1$, $Ω$ is a bounded, $C^2$ domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ containing the origin, $N\ge2$ and the fractional Laplacian $(-Δ)^α$ is defined in the principle value sense. We obtain that any classical solution $u$ of (\ref{eq 0.1}) is a weak solution of …
We consider the heat flow of Yang-Mills-Higgs functional where the base manifold is a Riemannian surface and the fiber is a compact symplectic manifold. We show that the corresponding Cauchy problem admits a global weak solution for any $H^1$-initial data. Moreover, the solution is smooth except finitely many singularities. We prove an energy identity at finite time singularities and give a description of the asymptotic behavior at time infinity.
We study the existence of sign-changing solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $\partial _t u = Δu + |u|^αu$ on ${\mathbb R}^N $, $N\ge 3$, with $\frac {2} {N-2} < α<α_0$, where $α_0=\frac {4} {N-4+2\sqrt{ N-1 } }\in (\frac {2} {N-2}, \frac {4} {N-2})$, which are singular at $x=0$ on an interval of time. In particular, for certain $μ>0$ that can be arbitrarily large, we prove that for any $u_0 \in \mathrm{L} ^\infty _{\mathrm{loc}} ({\mathbb R}^N \setminus \{ 0 \}) $ which is bounded at infinity and equals $μ|x|^{- \frac {2} {α}}$ in a neighborhood of $0$, there exists a local (in time) solu…
