Symmetry, quantitative Liouville theorems and analysis of large solutions of conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations (Q2406063)

Under consideration are special conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Let \(f(\lambda)\) be a symmetric positive function of \(\lambda\) defined on a symmetric cone \(\Gamma\subset \Gamma_{1}\subset {\mathbb R}^{n}\) \((\Gamma_{1}=\{\lambda:\sum_{i=1}^{n}\lambda_{i}>0\},\;n\geq 3)\) (i.e., if \(\lambda\in \Gamma\) then \(\bar{\lambda}\in \Gamma\) and \(f(\bar{\lambda})=f(\lambda)\) for any permutation \(\bar{\lambda}\) of \(\lambda\)). Given a positive \( C^{2}\)-function \(u(x)\), denote by \(A^{u}\) the matrix with entries \[ A^{u}_{ij}=-\frac{2}{n-2}u^{-\frac{n+2}{n-2}}u_{x_{i}x_{j}}+\frac{2n}{(n-2)^{2}}u^{-\frac{2n}{n-2}}u_{x_{i}x_{j}}-\frac{2n}{(n-2)^{2}}u^{-\frac{2n}{n-2}} |\nabla u|^{2}\delta_{ij}. \] The elliptic equation in question is of the form \(f(\lambda(A^{u}))=1\), where \(\lambda(A^{u})\) is the collection of eigenvalues of \(A^{u}\). A sequence \(u_{n}\in C^{2}(B_{3})\) (\(B_{r}=\{x:|x|\leq r\}\)) of solutions such that \(\sup_{x\in B_{1}}u_{n}(x)\to +\infty\) as \(n\to \infty\) is called a blowing-up sequence of solutions. The main results of the article are connected with the descriptions of blow-up profiles for blowing-up sequences of solutions. It is proven that the distance between blow-up points is bounded from below by a universal positive number, the solutions are very close to a single standard bubble in a universal positive distance around each blow-up point, and the heights of these bubbles are comparable by a universal factor. Also a quantitative Liouville theorem is established.