Ellipticity implies hypoellipticity for operators on p.c.f. fractals

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Let XX be a p.c.f. fractal, let PP be a polynomial, and let P(Δ)P(\Delta) denote the associated operator on the product space XmX^m. The operator P(Δ)P(\Delta) is elliptic when P(ξ12,…,ξm2)P(\xi_1^2,\dotsc,\xi_m^2) is elliptic, and it is hypoelliptic when

SingSppt⁡(P(Δ)T)=SingSppt⁡(T)\operatorname{SingSppt}\bigl(P(\Delta)T\bigr)=\operatorname{SingSppt}(T)

for every distribution T∈D′(Ω)T\in\mathcal{D'}(\Omega). Ellipticity-hypoellipticity conjecture. If XX is a p.c.f. fractal and P(Δ)P(\Delta) is an elliptic operator on the product space XmX^m, then P(Δ)P(\Delta) is hypoelliptic. For m=1m=1, all operators P(Δ)P(\Delta) are elliptic and are known to be hypoelliptic; the conjecture concerns products of p.c.f. fractals and is motivated by the corresponding theory for elliptic operators in Euclidean analysis.

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Luke G. Rogers and Robert S. Strichartz, “Distribution theory on p.c.f. fractals”, arXiv:0903.4127 (2009).

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