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Yau-type gradient estimates for p-harmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds with boundary under Dirichlet boundary condition

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 10 references
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Abstract

A Yau-type gradient estimate is proved for positive $p$-harmonic functions on complete Riemannian manifolds with compact boundary, under a Ricci lower bound on the Riemannian manifold and a mean curvature lower bound on the boundary, assuming the Dirichlet condition and a sign condition on the outward normal derivative. The result extends the estimate for harmonic functions by Kunikawa and Sakurai to the full range of $p$-Laplace operators and yields a Liouville theorem when the curvature hypotheses are nonnegative. The cutoff method of the linear theory does not extend when the exponent differs from two, since it requires a directional Hessian of the distance to the boundary that Laplacian comparison cannot control. That cutoff is replaced here by a radial barrier at the boundary and an intrinsic maximum principle in the interior.

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