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ON UNIQUE CONTINUATION PROPERTIES FOR THE SUB-LAPLACIAN ON |CARNOT GROUPS

  • NIU Peng-Cheng ,
  • WANG Jia-Lin
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  • 1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, |Xi'an 710072, |China

    2. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou 341000, China

Received date: 2007-04-11

  Revised date: 2008-12-30

  Online published: 2010-09-20

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10871157), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of 
Higher Education of China (200806990032), and Keji Chuangxin Jijin of Northwestern Polytechnical University (2007KJ01012).

Abstract

In this article, authors begin with establishing representation formulas and properties for functions on Carnot groups. Then, some unique
continuation results to solutions of sub-Laplace equations with potentials are proved.

Cite this article

NIU Peng-Cheng , WANG Jia-Lin . ON UNIQUE CONTINUATION PROPERTIES FOR THE SUB-LAPLACIAN ON |CARNOT GROUPS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2010 , 30(5) : 1776 -1784 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60171-3

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