Trivial stationary solutions to the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and certain nonlinear elliptic equations (Q858702)

The authors study the steady state problem \[ \Delta^2_x\varphi+ \Delta_x\varphi+{1\over 2}|\nabla_x\varphi|^2= 0 \] in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d\geq 1\). In particular, they show that in dimension \(d= 1,2\), the only locally integrable steady solutions are the trivial solutions \(\varphi(x)=\text{constant}\). The authors extend their tools to certain nonlinear elliptic systems in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) and show nonexistence of nontrivial solutions to those equations.