Elliptic Schwarz potential conjecture

Let α\alpha be an entire function. On a nonsingular analytic surface, let uu solve the Cauchy problem for

div(αu)=0\operatorname{div}(\alpha\nabla u)=0

with entire data. Let qq solve

div(αq)=1,\operatorname{div}(\alpha\nabla q)=1,

and let vv solve the corresponding Cauchy problem with data qq. Elliptic Schwarz potential conjecture. The singularity set of uu is contained in the singularity set of vv. This generalizes the Schwarz potential conjecture from the Laplacian to an elliptic operator with entire coefficient α\alpha. The source emphasizes that, unlike the classical Schwarz potential conjecture, it is not even known whether this generalized conjecture holds in the plane.

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Primary source

Erik Lundberg, “Laplacian Growth, Elliptic Growth, and Singularities of the Schwarz Potential”, arXiv:1009.5159 (2010).

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