The maximum principles and symmetry results for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear equations

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2014.11.022MaRDI QIDQ2255116zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guozhen Lu, Jiuyi Zhu

Publication date 6 February 2015

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7141

zbMATH Keywords

fully nonlinear equationmaximum principlemoving plane methodPucci's extremal operatorspunctured ballradial symmetryviscosity solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs (35B07) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Liouville theorems and Phragmén-Lindelöf theorems in context of PDEs (35B53) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60)

Abstract: This paper is concerned about maximum principles and radial symmetry for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear partial differential equations. We obtain the radial symmetry and monotonicity properties for nonnegative viscosity solutions of begin{equation}F (D^2 u)+u^p=0 quad quad mbox{in} mathbb R^n label{abs}end{equation} under the asymptotic decay rate $u=o(|x{|}^{-frac2p-1})$ at infinity, where $p>1$ (Theorem 1, Corollary 1). As a consequence of our symmetry results, we obtain the nonexistence of any nontrivial and nonnegative solution when $F$ is the Pucci extremal operators (Corollary 2). Our symmetry and monotonicity results also apply to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman or Isaccs equations. A new maximum principle for viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations is established (Theorem 2). As a result, different forms of maximum principles on bounded and unbounded domains are obtained. Radial symmetry, monotonicity and the corresponding maximum principle for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in a punctured ball are shown (Theorem 3). We also investigate the radial symmetry for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations (Theorem 4).

Review text

The authors manage to extend the maximum principle to viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems. In turn, this enables them to prove radial symmetry of solutions by the moving plane method. Non-existence results for radial solutions, together with the presently proved symmetry, imply Liouville-type theorems for non-existence of nontrivial solutions.

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