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Near a non-characteristic plane $x=0$, use the small cap ${\omega }_{\epsilon }=\{x>0,x+y^2<\epsilon \}$. Its curved face is non-characteristic by continuity of the principal symbol. A polynomial coordinate change flattens that face. Uniform real analytic coefficient bounds and the uniform Cauchy radius for polynomial forcing solve $P^{\ast }v=g$ throughout a common cap, with zero boundary jet on the curved face. The complete boundary-jet condition for formal adjoints then gives ${\int }_{{\omega }_{\epsilon }}ug=0$ for every polynomial $g$. Uniform approximation of $\bar{u}$ gives $\int |u{|}^2=0$. Repeating on the other side of the plane proves two-sided local uniqueness.

Taken literally, the printed condition is insufficient: the choice of which factor vanishes may depend on the multi-index. For a counterexample already at $m=2$, let $P={\partial }_x^2$, let $\Omega =(0,a)\times (-b,b)$ be a small rectangle compactly contained in the unit ball, and choose $\chi \in C_c^{\infty }((-b,b))$ nonnegative with positive integral. PutOn the vertical edges $u=0$, and on the horizontal edges $u$ and its derivatives vanish. Every first derivative of $v$ is zero. Thus for every $|\beta |\le 1$ the same-index alternative in the PDF holds at every boundary point. But

The valid complete boundary-jet condition for formal adjoints is that, at each boundary point, either all derivatives of $u$ through order $m-1$ vanish or all such derivatives of $v$ vanish. On a bounded piecewise smooth domain with smooth coefficients up to its closure, repeated integration by parts produces boundary terms of the form $({\partial }^{\gamma }u){\partial }^{\delta }(a_{\alpha }v)$, multiplied by a normal component, with $|\gamma |,|\delta |\le m-1$. Expanding the second factor shows that every summand vanishes under this stronger whole-jet alternative. Hence the desired identity holds under that condition. The later cap argument satisfies this stronger condition face by face, so it remains valid despite the literal error in this subpart. Boundary regularity and finite integrals are also needed for a general noncompact-support integration formula; the caps used below have them.

For each polynomial $g$, take the real analytic adjoint solution on the common cap from the preceding part. On the flat boundary face the full boundary jet of $u$ vanishes; on the curved face that of $v$ vanishes. The complete boundary-jet condition for formal adjoints, proved under its corrected hypothesis, therefore applies. The two corner points have zero boundary measure, and the cap is a bounded piecewise smooth domain. It follows thatBy the Weierstrass approximation theorem, polynomials uniformly approximate $\bar{u}$ on the compact cap closure. Taking the limit gives ${\int }_{{\omega }_{\epsilon }}|u{|}^2=0$. Continuity then gives $u=0$ pointwise in the cap. For real $u$, simply approximate $u$ itself.

A positive cap alone is not a neighborhood of the origin. Apply the same argument after reflecting $x\mapsto -x$; the reflected operator remains real analytic and non-characteristic. Shrinking the two parameters to their minimum proves vanishing onThis set is open and contains the origin, including the flat face where the value data vanish. The argument is the parabolic-cap proof of Holmgren uniqueness, and it establishes Holmgren uniqueness theorem for nonanalytic $C^m$ solutions here.