Semilinear perturbations of harmonic spaces, Liouville property and a boundary value problem (Q1811018)

The author studies semilinear perturbations of the type \(Lu=\Psi(\cdot,u)\mu\), where \(\mu\) is a Kato measure, in the general setting of harmonic Bauer spaces \((X,\mathcal H)\). The standard example for the function \(\Psi\) on \(X\times\mathbb R\) is of the form \(\Psi(x,t)=\gamma(x)t | t| ^{\alpha-1}\), \(\alpha>1\). The general assumptions are the following: \(\Psi(\cdot,1)\) is locally bounded on \(X\), the functions \(\Psi(x,\cdot)\), \(x\in X\), are odd, continuous, strictly increasing, superadditive, and have the doubling property. Given a Kato family \(M\) of potential kernels on \((X,\mathcal H)\), the relevant functions on \(X\) (the solutions to \(Lu=\Psi(\cdot,u)\mu\) in the application) are the continuous real functions \(u\) on \(X\) such that, for every open relatively compact subset \(D\) of \(X\), the function \(u+K_D^M\Psi(\cdot,u)\) is harmonic on \(D\). The author extends Liouville type results obtained in \textit{A. Grigor'yan} and \textit{W. Hansen} [Math. Ann. 312, 659--716 (1998; Zbl 0938.31007)] for linear perturbations to the semilinear case. Moreover, given a uniformly elliptic second order differential operator \(L\) on a Greenian domain \(X\) in \(\mathbb R^d\), necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the boundary value problem \(Lu=\Psi(\cdot,u)\mu\) in \(X\) and \(u=\nu\) on the minimal Martin boundary~\(\partial_1 X\) are given.