Liouville-type results for spherical symmetric linear differential operators with constant coefficients (Q2164785)

Let \(P(z)=\sum_{k=0}^{m} c_kz^k\) be a polynomial with real coefficients. This article is concerned with the equation \(P(\Delta u)=0\) as well as for inequalities \(P(\Delta u)\geq 0\) and \(P(\Delta u)\geq f(u)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 1\). These are natural higher order generalizations of the Laplacian equations and inequalities in the whole \(\mathbb{R}^N\). Using various methods and the properties of the Bessel functions, the authors obtain new Liouville type results for the existence of \(L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}\)-distributional solutions, for bounded solutions and for solutions with a prescribed behaviour at infinity.