On radial solutions of certain semi-linear elliptic equations (Q2492455)

Let \(\Omega=\{x\in\mathbb R^N\mid |x|\geq A\}\), \(A\geq 0\) be exterior domain, \(N\geq 3\). The author deals with the following semilinear elliptic equation: \[ \Delta u+f (x,u)+g\bigl(|x|\bigr)x\cdot\nabla u=0\tag{1} \] and is mainly interested in the solutions of (1) depending only on the radius \(|x|\). The author presents conditions on the data of (1), that force solutions to be radial and -- as it turns out -- even unique. The result is obtained by means of the strong maximum principle.