Rotational symmetry of solutions of some nonlinear problems in statistical mechanics and in geometry

DOI10.1007/BF02103274zbMath0821.35044MaRDI QIDQ1317412

Sagun Chanillo, Michael Karl-Heinz Kiessling

Publication date: 3 October 1995

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

method of moving planes; symmetry breaking; symmetric decreasing rearrangements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

35B05: Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs

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