A Liouville property for gradient graphs and a Bernstein problem for Hamiltonian stationary equations (Q276056)

The main results of the present paper are as follows. { Theorem 1.} Suppose that \(u\) is semi-convex. Then the gradient graph \(\Gamma=(x, Du(x)) : x\in {\mathbb R}^n\} \) with the induced submanifold metric is a Liouville manifold. { Theorem 2.} Let \(g\) be the metric induced on \(\Gamma=(x, Du(x))\). Suppose that \(u\) is an entire solution of the fourth order Hamiltonian stationary equation \(\Delta_g\theta = 0\) with \(\theta(u)>(n-2)\frac{\pi}{2}+\delta\) or \(D^2u\geq 0\). Then, \(u\) is quadratic, that is \(\Gamma\) is a plane. The main ingredient of the proofs rely on a rotation argument due to \textit{Y. Yuan} [Invent. Math. 150, No. 1, 117--125 (2002; Zbl 1027.53055); Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, No. 5, 1355--1358 (2006; Zbl 1134.35355)].