A remark on quantitative unique continuation from subsets of the boundary of positive measure
Nicolas Burq, Claude Zuily · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2021
The question of unique continuation of harmonic functions in a domain $Ω$ $\subset$ R d with boundary $\partial$$Ω$, satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions and with normal derivatives vanishing on a subset $ω$ of the boundary is a classical problem. When $ω$ contains an open subset of the boundary it is a consequence of Carleman estimates (uniqueness for second order elliptic operators across an hypersurface). The case where $ω$ is a set of positive (d -- 1) dimensional measure has attracted a lot of attention, see e.g. [10, 3, 15], where qualitative results have been obtained in various situations. The main open questions (about uniqueness) concern now Lipschitz domains and variable coefficients. Here, using results by Logunov and Malinnikova [13, 14], we consider the simpler case of W 2,$\infty$ domains but prove quantitative uniqueness both for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. As an application, we deduce quantitative estimates for the Dirichlet and Neumann Laplace eigenfunctions on a W 2,$\infty$ domain with boundary.