Endpoint weak-L^p integrability

Determine whether the weak-L^p bounds for the density \theta of the measure \mu extend to the endpoint exponent p=m/(m-1).

Background

Theorem \ref{Lp} establishes a weak-Lp estimate for the density \theta of a measure \mu=\theta\,\mathcal Hm!\llcorner M under a first-order PDE constraint, with some exponent p>1 depending on the dimension and ellipticity parameters. The authors note that a layer-cake argument yields corresponding strong Lq bounds for every q<p.

The unresolved issue is whether the weak estimate can be improved all the way to the natural endpoint exponent p=m/(m-1). This concerns the sharp integrability threshold for densities of measures satisfying the stated PDE constraint and is explicitly left unresolved by the paper.

References

Whether the $L{p,\infty}$ bounds extend up to the endpoint $p=m/(m-1)$ is left as an open question.

— Scale-invariant bounds on thin sets for measures satisfying a first-order PDE and the anisotropic Michael-Simon inequality  (2609.34573 - Philippis et al., 28 Sep 2026) in Remark following Theorem \ref{Lp}, Section 1, subsection “Setting and main results”