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Title: Unique Continuation for Locally Uniformly Distributed Measures
Abstract In this note we show that the support of a locallyk-uniform measure in$${\mathbb {R}}^{n+1}$$ R n + 1 satisfies a kind of unique continuation property. As a consequence, we show that locally uniformly distributed measures satisfy a weaker unique continuation property. This continues work of Kirchheim and Preiss (Math Scand 90(1): 152-160, 2002) and David, Kenig and Toro (Comm Pure Appl Math 54(4): 385-449, 2001) and lends additional evidence to the conjecture proposed by Kowalski and Preiss (J Reine Angew Math 379: 115-151, 1987) that each connected component of the support of a locallyn-uniform measure in$${\mathbb {R}}^{n+1}$$ R n + 1 is contained in the zero set of a quadratic polynomial.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2143719
PAR ID:
10582144
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Springer
Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Journal of Geometric Analysis
Volume:
35
Issue:
5
ISSN:
1050-6926
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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