Asymptotics of harmonic functions in the absence of monotonicity formulas

Zongyuan Li

Published 2023-05-01Version 1

In this article, we study the asymptotics of harmonic functions. A typical method is by proving monotonicity formulas of a version of rescaled Dirichlet energy, and use it to study the renormalized solution -- the Almgren's blowup. However, such monotonicity formulas require strong smoothness assumptions on domains and operators. We are interested in the cases when monotonicity formulas are not available, including variable coefficient equations with unbounded lower order terms, Dirichlet problems on rough (non-$C^1$) domains, and Robin problems with rough Robin potentials.