Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on the unit ball with a nonlinear boundary condition (Q2680521)

The paper under review deals with Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on the unit ball. More precisely, the authors consider the problem \begin{align*} \Delta u&=0 \quad \text{in }\mathbb{B}^n \, ,\\ u_\nu+\lambda u&=u^q\quad \text{on }\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\, . \end{align*} They prove that if \(u \in C^{\infty}(\overline{\mathbb{B}^n})\) is a positive solution of the problem above when \(n \geq 9\) and \(1<q\leq 1+\frac{2}{3n-5}\), then there is a \(\lambda_0 \in (0,\frac{1}{q-1})\) (which depends on \(n\) and on \(q\)) such that \(u\) is constant if \(\lambda \in (0,\lambda_0)\). The proof is based on integral identities and Sobolev inequalities.