Bernstein-Sätze nullter Ordnung und Liouville-Sätze für eine Klasse elliptischer Gleichungen. (Zero order Bernstein theorems and Liouville theorems for a class of elliptic equations) (Q1069019)

Subject to section one are certain second order nonlinear partial differential equations \(Lu=0\) which allow a so-called zero order Bernstein theorem: If u is a solution which is defined in all of \(R^ n\) then u is constant. In section two Liouville theorems for powers of certain linear elliptic operators L of second order are presented, this means that solutions of \(L^ mu=0\) which are defined and bounded in all of \(R^ n\) must be constant. A connection to the hyperbolic equation \(\phi_{tt}+L_{\phi}=0\) is shown.