Lin's conjecture on boundary nodal sets of harmonic functions

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Let ΩRd\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d be a Lipschitz domain and let Σ=BΩ\Sigma=B\cap\partial\Omega for a ball BB centered at a point of Ω\partial\Omega. Let uu be harmonic in Ω\Omega, continuous up to the boundary, and vanish on Σ\Sigma. Lin's conjecture. If the set {xΣ:νu(x)=0}\{x\in\Sigma:\partial_\nu u(x)=0\} has positive surface measure, then u0u\equiv 0. This is a boundary unique-continuation question related to the Bers problem; it remains open in the stated generality, although the analogous planar question has a positive answer and counterexamples are known in higher-dimensional half-spaces for related formulations.

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Josep M. Gallegos, “Size of the zero set of solutions of elliptic PDEs near the boundary of Lipschitz domains with small Lipschitz constant”, arXiv:2201.12307 (2023).

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