A Harnack-type inequality for a prescribed-curvature equation on a domain with boundary (Q2923161)

In this paper, for \(n \geq 4\) and under suitable assumptions on \(K(x)\) and \(c(x)\), it is shown that positive solutions of NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \left\{\begin{aligned} &\Delta u + K(x)u^{(n+2)/(n-2)} = 0, \quad x\in B_1^+ \subset \mathbb{R}_+^n, \\ &\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_n} = c(x)u^{n/(n-2)}, \quad x \in \partial B_1^+\cap \mathbb{R}_+^n, \end{aligned}\right. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE satisfy the Harnack-type inequality NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \big(\max\{u(x) : x \in \overline{B_{\frac{1}{3}}^+}\}\big) \cdot \big(\min\{u(x) : x \in \overline{B_{\frac{2}{3}}^+}\}\big) \leq C, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for some \(C > 0\). As a consequence, the following energy estimate is deduced NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \int_{B_{\frac{1}{2}}^+} \big(|\nabla u|^2 + u^{2n/(n-2)}\big)dx \leq C. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The proofs rely on the method of moving spheres. The key ingredient in this method is the construction of test functions.