Some remarks on singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. I

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Abstract: The paper concerns singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations.


The authors study strong maximum principles for singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic and degenerate elliptic equations of second order. Let \(F \in C^1(\Omega \times {\mathbb R}\times {\mathbb R}^n \times {\mathcal S}^{n\times n})\) satisfy an elliptic condition \((-\frac{\partial F}{\partial M_{ij}}(x, s, p, M)) >0\) for a bounded domain \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^n\) containing the origin, where \({\mathcal S}^{n\times n}\) denotes the set of \(n\times n\) real symmetric matrices. Assume that \(u \in C^2(\Omega \setminus \{0\})\) satisfies the following property for some \(\bar r >0\): For any \(V \in {\mathbb R}^n\), \(w(x) = u(x) + V\cdot x\) satisfies the minimum principle \(\inf_{B_r\setminus \{0\}} w = \min_{\partial B_r} w\) for all \(0 < r < \bar r\). Under these assumptions, the authors prove that if \(v \in C^2(\Omega)\) satisfies \( u > v\) on \(\Omega \setminus \{0\}\) and \(F(x, u, \nabla u, \nabla^2 u) \geq F(x, v, \nabla v, \nabla^2 v)\) in \(\Omega \setminus \{0\}\), then \(\liminf_{|x|\to 0} (u-v)(x) >0\). If the assumption \(u >v\) in \(\Omega \setminus \{0\}\) is replaced by \(u \geq v\), then, in view of the strong maximum principle, either \(u = v\) in \(\Omega \setminus \{0\}\) or the inequality mentioned above holds. The authors also show that the same results still hold if we allow the singular set to be a closed submanifold of dimension \(k \leq n-2\). As an application of the main result, the authors establish some results on symmetry of positivity solutions in a punctured ball using the method of moving planes.




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