Symmetry results for nonlinear elliptic operators with unbounded drift

DOI10.1007/S00030-014-0270-5MaRDI QIDQ2255178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Farina, M. Novaga, Andrea Pinamonti

Publication date 6 February 2015

Published in NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1313

zbMATH Keywords

energy inequalitynonlinear elliptic differential equationsradial symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91)

Abstract: We prove the one-dimensional symmetry of solutions to elliptic equations of the form $-dive(e^{G(x)}a(|ablau|)ablau)=f(u)e^{G(x)}$, under suitable energy conditions. Our results hold without any restriction on the dimension of the ambient space.

Review text

The authors study a class of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations without any assumptions on the dimension of the ambient space. They show that if the equation satisfies an energy condition, then any solution satisfying a certain stability condition is radially symmetric and thus one-dimensional. Classical examples within the considered class are the \(p\)-Laplacian and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator. The proof is essentially based on a geometric Poincaré inequality. As an application solutions of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator with a Morse index bounded by the dimension are studied.

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