A note on the moving sphere method

DOI10.2140/PJM.1999.189.107MaRDI QIDQ1305106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yūki Naito, Takashi Suzuki

Publication date 23 August 2000

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1999.189.107

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65)

Review text

We treat the Dirichlet problem for elliptic equations on annular regions, and show the monotonicity and symmetry properties of positive solutions with respect to the sphere. We generalize the argument of the method of moving spheres to more general partial differential equations.

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