Non-solvability in the flat category of elliptic operators with real analytic coefficients

Martino Fassina, Yifei Pan

Published 2018-11-21, updated 2019-02-10Version 2

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq 2$, be an open set. For an elliptic differential operator $L$ on $\Omega$ with real analytic coefficients and a point $p\in\Omega$, we construct a smooth function $g$ with the following properties: $g$ is flat at $p$ and the equation $Lu=g$ has no smooth local solution $u$ that is flat at $p$.