Weak Harnack inequality

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Weak Harnack inequality by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
The weak estimate for supersolutions is distinct from the sup-to-inf Harnack inequality for uniformly elliptic divergence-form equations for solutions.
For a nonnegative weak supersolution of a uniformly elliptic divergence-form equation, a positive mean on a ball is bounded by a constant times the infimum on a smaller concentric ball. The admissible exponent and constant depend only on dimension and the ellipticity bounds.

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