Stationary level surfaces and Liouville-type theorems characterizing hyperplanes

DOI10.1007/978-88-470-2841-8_17zbMATH Open1272.35057arXiv1202.3528OpenAlexW3154683046MaRDI QIDQ2841902FDOQ2841902

Authors: Shigeru Sakaguchi 

Publication date: 30 July 2013

Published in: Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDE's (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider an entire graph $S$ in $mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ of a continuous real function $f$ over $mathbb{R}^N$ with $Nge1$. Let $Omega$ be an unbounded domain in $mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with boundary $S$. Consider nonlinear diffusion equations of the form $partia{l}_{t}U=Deltaphi(U)$ containing the heat equation. Let $U$ be the solution of either the initial-boundary value problem over $Omega$ where the initial value equals zero and the boundary value equals 1, or the Cauchy problem where the initial data is the characteristic function of the set $mathbb{R}^{N+1}setminusOmega$. The problem we consider is to characterize $S$ in such a way that there exists a stationary level surface of $U$ in $Omega$. We introduce a new class $mathcalA$ of entire graphs $S$ and, by using the sliding method, we show that $SinmathcalA$ must be a hyperplane if there exists a stationary level surface of $U$ in $Omega$. This is an improvement of the previous result. Next, we consider the heat equation in particular and we introduce the class $mathcalB$ of entire graphs $S$ of functions $f$ such that each $|f(x)-f(y)|:|x-y|le1$ is bounded. With the help of the theory of viscosity solutions, we show that $SinmathcalB$ must be a hyperplane if there exists a stationary isothermic surface of $U$ in $Omega$. This is a considerable improvement of the previous result. Related to the problem, we consider a class $mathcalW$ of Weingarten hypersurfaces in $mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with $Nge1$. Then we show that, if $S$ belongs to $mathcalW$ in the viscosity sense and $S$ satisfies some natural geometric condition, then $SinmathcalB$ must be a hyperplane. This is also a considerable improvement of the previous result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3528

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zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy probleminitial-boundary value problemsliding methodstationary isothermic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Liouville theorems and Phragmén-Lindelöf theorems in context of PDEs (35B53) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

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