Liouville theorems for entire local minimizers of energies defined on the class \(L \log L\) and for entire solutions of the stationary Prandtl-Eyring fluid model (Q2428586)

The paper studies the regularity properties of the local minimizers of \[ J(u, \Omega)= \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|\log \left( 1+ |\nabla u|\right) \, dx. \] The authors prove that if \(u: \mathbb R^n \to\mathbb R^N\) is entire, the boundedness of the function \(u\) already implies its constancy. More precisely, if \[ \lim_{|x|\to +\infty} \frac{|u(x)|}{|x|}=0, \] then \(u\) must be a constant vector and the only entire local minimizers are constant functions. Moreover, when \( \frac{|u(x)|}{|x|}\) stays bounded as \(|x|\to +\infty\), then \(u\) is an affine function. Similar results hold in the case \(n=N=2\) for entire solutions of the equations modeling the stationary flow of a so-called Prandtl-Eyring fluids. Some extensions of the Liouville theorem are also given in the variational setting, for entire local minimizers in any dimension \(n\) and \(N\).