Weighted integrability of polyharmonic functions in the higher dimensional case

TL;DR

This paper characterizes the weighted integrability conditions for N-harmonic functions in higher dimensions, extending previous results from two dimensions and providing a cellular decomposition theorem applicable to all dimensions.

Contribution

It generalizes the integrability characterization of N-harmonic functions to dimensions n ≥ 3 and extends the cellular decomposition theorem beyond two dimensions.

Findings

Complete characterization for p ≥ (n-2)/(n-1) in higher dimensions

Extension of cellular decomposition theorem to all dimensions

Insights into uniqueness of solutions for the N-Laplacian Dirichlet problem

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the $L^p$ integrability of $N$-harmonic functions with respect to the standard weights $(1-|x|^2)^{\alpha}$ on the unit ball $\mathbb{B}$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$. More precisely, our goal is to determine the real (negative) parameters $\alpha$, for which $(1-|x|^2)^{\alpha/p} u(x) \in L^p(\mathbb{B})$ implies that $u\equiv 0$, whenever $u$ is a solution of the $N$-Laplace equation on $\mathbb{B}$. This question is motivated by the uniqueness considerations of the Dirichlet problem for the $N$-Laplacian $\Delta^N$. Our study is inspired by a recent work of Borichev and Hedenmalm [Adv. Math., 264(2014), pp. 464-505], where a complete answer to the above question in the case $n=2$ is given for the full scale $0<p<\infty$. When $n\geq 3$, we obtain an analogous characterization for $\frac{n-2}{n-1}\leq p<\infty$, and remark that the remaining case can be genuinely more difficult. Also, we extend the remarkable cellular decomposition theorem of Borichev and Hedenmalm to all dimensions.