The subharmonic gradient-product inequality

Let B(0,1)RdB(0,1)\subset\mathbb{R}^d be the unit ball. Let λC(B(0,1))\lambda\in C^\infty(\overline{B(0,1)}) satisfy λ>0\lambda>0 on B(0,1)\overline{B(0,1)}, and let ϕ,ψC2(B(0,1))\phi,\psi\in C^2(\overline{B(0,1)}) vanish on B(0,1)\partial B(0,1) and be subharmonic with respect to the operator (λ)-\nabla(\lambda\nabla). The subharmonic gradient-product inequality. There exists a constant CdC_d, depending only on the dimension dd, such that

B(0,1)λ(x)ϕ(x)ψ(x)dxCdB(0,1)λ(x)ϕ(x)ψ(x)dx.\int_{B(0,1)}\lambda(x)\lvert\nabla\phi(x)\cdot\nabla\psi(x)\rvert\,dx\leq C_d\int_{B(0,1)}\lambda(x)\nabla\phi(x)\cdot\nabla\psi(x)\,dx.

The paper states that this inequality would imply the difficult condition needed for its homogenization theorems and refers to earlier work and a monograph for context; its resolution is not established in the supplied text.

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Gérard Ben-Arous and Houman Owhadi, “Multi-scale homogenization with bounded ratios and Anomalous Slow Diffusion”, arXiv:math/0105258 (2002).

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