De Giorgi's continuity conjecture for singular elliptic equations

Let ΩRN\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N be a domain and consider weak solutions of

div(Au)=0in Ω.\operatorname{div}(A\nabla u)=0\quad\text{in }\Omega.

Assume that the coefficient matrix satisfies

ξ2A(x)ξξΛ(x)ξ2|\xi|^2\leq A(x)\xi\cdot\xi\leq\Lambda(x)|\xi|^2

for ξRN\xi\in\mathbb{R}^N and almost every xΩx\in\Omega, with N3N\geq3 and λ=1\lambda=1. De Giorgi's continuity conjecture. If

ΩeΛ(x)dx<,\int_{\Omega}e^{\Lambda(x)}\,dx<\infty,

then every weak solution is continuous. This is one of De Giorgi's open problems for singular elliptic equations; the source states that the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Xiangsheng Xu, “Hölder continuity of weak solutions to an elliptic-parabolic system modeling biological transportation network”, arXiv:2212.01339 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2211.14510.

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