Strong Unique Continuation for Products of Elliptic Operators of Second Order
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We study strong unique continuation for products of elliptic operators. The main tools are Carleman inequalities for second order elliptic operators. We obtain strong unique continuation assuming either Gevrey regularity of the coefficients or some pointwise conditions on the coefficients.
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