Explicit subsolutions and a Liouville theorem for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic inequalities in halfspaces (Q715672)

This paper deals with Liouville type theorems for arbitrarily growing positive viscosity supersolutions of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in the half space \(\{x_> 0\}\), \(n\geq 2\). More precisely, the inequality \(M^-(D^2 u)+ u^p\leq 0\), \(M^-\) being the Pucci inf-operator, does not possess any positive viscosity solution provided that \(-1\leq p\leq C\), where the constant \(C> 0\) depends on \(M^-\). On the other hand, positive solutions exist if either \(p<-1\) or \(p\gg 1\). The proof relies on the construction of explicit subsolutions of \(M^-(D^2u)= 0\) and on a nonlinear version in \(\{x_n> 0\}\) of the Hadamard three circles theorem for entire superharmonic functions.