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The authors investigate monotonicity properties for positive classical solutions \(u\) of the boundary value problem \[ \Delta u+f(u)=0 \quad\text{in } \Omega, \quad u=0\quad\text{on }\Gamma: =\partial \Omega \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is an unbounded set defined as \(\Omega: =\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n |\;x_n> \varphi(x_1, \dots, x_{n-1})\}\), with a globally Lipschitz continuous function \(\varphi: \mathbb{R}^{n-1} \to\mathbb{R}\). Moreover \(u\) is assumed to satisfy the condition \[ 0<u< \sup u=M <\infty \quad \text{in } \Omega.\tag{2} \] The principal results of the paper are as follows: Theorem 1.1. Under the following conditions: (a) \(f\) is Lipschitz continuous on \(\mathbb{R}^+\) and satisfies \(f(s)>0\) on \((0,\mu)\) and \(f(s)\leq 0\) for \(s\geq\mu\) for some \(\mu>0\); (b) for some \(0<s_0<s_1<\mu\), \(f(s) >\delta_0s\) on \([0,s_0]\) for some \(\delta_0 >0\); (c) \(f(s)\) is nonincreasing on \((s_1,\mu)\), \(u\) is monotonic with respect to \(x_n\), i.e. \(\partial u/ \partial x_n>0\) in \(\Omega\). Theorem 1.2. Under the assumptions of Theorem 1.1, the solution \(u\) of (1) has in addition the following properties: (a) \(u<\mu\) in \(\Omega\); (b) as \(\text{dist} (x,\Gamma) \to\infty\), \(u(x) \to\mu\) uniformly in \(\Omega\); (c) \(u(x) \geq C[\text{dist} (x,\Gamma)]^\rho\) if \(x_n-\varphi (x_1, \dots, x_{n-1}) <h_1\) for some positive constants \(C,\rho_1\) and \(h_1\); (d) \(u\) is the unique solution satisfying (1) and (2); (e) \(\partial u/ \partial x_n+ \sum^{n-1}_{\alpha=1} a_\alpha \partial u/ \partial x_\alpha>0\) in \(\Omega\) if \(\sum a^2_\alpha <\kappa^{-2}\), where \(\kappa\) is the Lipschitz constant of \(f\). The proofs of these results are established by use of the sliding method.




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