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Sharp gradient bounds for uniformly elliptic PDE, eigenvalue asymptotics, and the Landis conjecture

  • Boyan Sirakov
  • Philippe Souplet
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Abstract

We study three classical problems in the theory of linear second-order uniformly elliptic equations: (i) gradient estimates for the Dirichlet problem, (ii) estimates and asymptotics for the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator, and (iii) the Landis conjecture on exponential decay. Our main results give versions of (i) in which the constant is sharply specified in terms of the norms of the coefficients of the operator and the size of the domain; and use these to strongly improve on known results for (ii) and (iii) by allowing both more general operators and weaker regularity assumptions on the coefficients, and by giving quantitative estimates. The proofs use a unified approach, relying on three ingredients: interior and boundary Harnack inequalities with sharp constants, duality arguments, and a C1 estimate based on a rescaling procedure. The sharpness of the gradient and spectral estimates is demonstrated through various counterexamples.

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@misc{sirakov2026sharp,
  title = {{Sharp gradient bounds for uniformly elliptic PDE, eigenvalue asymptotics, and the Landis conjecture}},
  author = {Boyan Sirakov and Philippe Souplet},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.15821},
  eprint = {2609.15821},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15821},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Sharp gradient bounds for uniformly elliptic PDE, eigenvalue asymptotics, and the Landis conjecture
AU  - Boyan Sirakov
AU  - Philippe Souplet
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/14
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.15821
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15821
AB  - We study three classical problems in the theory of linear second-order uniformly elliptic equations: (i) gradient estimates for the Dirichlet problem, (ii) estimates and asymptotics for the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator, and (iii) the Landis conjecture on exponential decay. Our main results give versions of (i) in which the constant is sharply specified in terms of the norms of the coefficients of the operator and the size of the domain; and use these to strongly improve on known results for (ii) and (iii) by allowing both more general operators and weaker regularity assumptions on the coefficients, and by giving quantitative estimates. The proofs use a unified approach, relying on three ingredients: interior and boundary Harnack inequalities with sharp constants, duality arguments, and a C^1 estimate based on a rescaling procedure. The sharpness of the gradient and spectral estimates is demonstrated through various counterexamples.
ER  -