Non-vanishing conjecture for homogeneous polynomial solutions of the p-Laplace equation

Let uu be a real homogeneous polynomial of degree m=degu2m=\deg u\ge 2 on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, with n3n\ge 3. Define the pp-Laplace operator by

Δpu:=Du2Δu+p22Du,DDu2.\Delta_p u:=|D u|^2\Delta u+\frac{p-2}{2}\langle D u,D|D u|^2\rangle.

Non-vanishing conjecture. If Δpu=0\Delta_pu=0 for p>1p>1 and p2p\ne2, then u0u\equiv 0.

This conjecture is equivalent to the non-vanishing property for real analytic solutions of the pp-Laplace equation in Rn\mathbb{R}^n for n3n\ge3: a real analytic solution with a vanishing gradient at an interior point should be identically zero. The corresponding statement in dimension two was proved by John L. Lewis, while the general case remains open in the supplied source.

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Vladimir G. Tkachev, “On the non-vanishing property for real analytic solutions of the p-Laplace equation”, arXiv:1503.03234 (2015).

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