A direct method of moving planes for the fractional Laplacian

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2016.11.038zbMath1362.35320arXiv1411.1697MaRDI QIDQ507209

Congming Li, Wenxiong Chen, Yan Li

Publication date: 3 February 2017

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1697

zbMATH Keywords

monotonicity; method of moving planes; radial symmetry; fractional Laplacian; narrow region principle; decay at infinity; maximum principles for anti-symmetric functions; non-existence of positive solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B50: Maximum principles in context of PDEs

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

35R11: Fractional partial differential equations

35B07: Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs