Non-uniqueness and failure of Calder\'on-Zygmund estimates below the critical exponent for non-monotone PDE with linear growth

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that for certain non-monotone elliptic PDEs with linear growth, classical regularity estimates and uniqueness results fail below the L^2 integrability level, using convex integration techniques.

Contribution

It provides the first counterexamples showing non-uniqueness and failure of Calderón-Zygmund estimates for non-monotone PDEs with linear growth below L^2.

Findings

Counterexamples to uniqueness of solutions

Failure of Calderón-Zygmund estimates below L^2

Convex integration used to construct solutions

Abstract

We provide counterexamples to uniqueness of solutions as well as a priori Calder\'on-Zygmund estimates for solutions below $L^2$ using convex integration argument for equations of the type $$ \text{div} (A (\nabla u)) = 0 \quad \text{in } \mathbb{B}^2, $$ where $A: \mathbb{R}^{2} \to \mathbb{R}^2$ is smooth, uniformly elliptic and has essentially linear growth, but fails to be monotone and asymptotically Uhlenbeck.