A gradient estimate for harmonic functions sharing the same zeros
arXiv:1306.0565 · doi:10.3934/era.2014.21.62
Abstract
Let u, v be two harmonic functions in the disk of radius two which have exactly the same set Z of zeros. We observe that the gradient of \log |u/v| is bounded in the unit disk by a constant which depends on Z only. In case Z is empty this goes back to Li-Yau's gradient estimate for positive harmonic functions. The general boundary Harnack principle gives Hölder estimates on \log |u/v|.
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