Positivity and radial symmetry of solutions to some variational problems in \(\mathbb R^N\) (Q1876741): Difference between revisions

The author extends various results on the symmetry and positivity of smooth minimizers for functionals involving scalar functions to functionals involving vector functions. Specifically, the functionals are of the form \[ J(\vec v) = \int_{\mathbb R^N} \sum_{i=1}^n M(| Dv_i| ) - F(| x| ,\vec v)\, dx \] where \(\vec v = (v_1, \dots, v_n)\), \(M\) is a nonnegative convex function, and \(F\) is a Carathéodory function, which is differentiable with respect to \(\vec v\), and the minimizers are subject to the constraints \[ \int_{\mathbb R^N} G_{ij}(v_i)\, dx = c_{ij} \tag{*} \] for given \(C^1\) functions \(G_{ij}\) (\(i=1, \dots,n\) and \(j= 1, \dots, k_i\)). Assuming appropriate monotonicity conditions for the partial derivatives of \(F\) and the vanishing of \(F\), \(G_{ij}\) and their partial derivatives with respect to \(v\) when \(v=0\), the author shows that any minimizer of the functional \(J\) subject to the constraints (*) must be positive and radially symmetric in \(\mathbb R^N\). The scalar case has been extensively studied.