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Jan 28, 2016 at 21:28 comment added student @MichaelRenardy Further edited.
Jan 28, 2016 at 21:28 comment added student @ConnorMooney Further edited.
Jan 28, 2016 at 21:28 comment added student @DenisSerre Sorry for changing the question on you, I have added a note and edited it further.
Jan 28, 2016 at 21:03 comment added Denis Serre When I answered the question, the assumption was pointwise, not away from a hypersurface.
Jan 28, 2016 at 20:24 comment added Connor Mooney The function $r^{1/2}sin(\theta/2)$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ satisfies the desired conditions (it's harmonic away from the positive $x$-axis, continuous and $H^1$) and is not Lipschitz. In this example the gradient is discontinuous on $\Sigma$ so (as Michael Renardy's comment points out) the Laplace concentrates there.
Jan 28, 2016 at 19:51 comment added Michael Renardy You do not know that $\Delta u\in L^2$. $\Delta u$ might include a surface delta function if $\nabla u$ is discontinuous across $\Sigma$.
Jan 28, 2016 at 18:11 comment added student Actually I wrote the question a bit wrong. Of course, statements like $|\Delta u|^2 \leq c|\nabla u|^2$ make no sense pointwise if $u$ is just continuous and $H^1$. It turns out that $u$ satisfies the above inequality pointwise everywhere except on an embedded hypersurface. But I think what you wrote still goes through?
Jan 28, 2016 at 16:59 history answered Denis Serre CC BY-SA 3.0