Maximum principles for a fully nonlinear fractional order equation and symmetry of solutions

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Abstract: In this paper, we consider equations involving fully nonlinear nonlocal operators F_{alpha}(u(x)) equiv C_{n,alpha} PV int_{mathbb{R}^n} frac{G(u(x)-u(z))}{|x-z|^{n+alpha}} dz= f(x,u). We prove a maximum principle and obtain key ingredients for carrying on the method of moving planes, such as narrow region principle and decay at infinity. Then we establish radial symmetry and monotonicity for positive solutions to Dirichlet problems associated to such fully nonlinear fractional order equations in a unit ball and in the whole space, as well as non-existence of solutions on a half space. We believe that the methods develop here can be applied to a variety of problems involving fully nonlinear nonlocal operators. We also investigate the limit of this operator as alphaightarrow2 and show that F_{alpha}(u(x)) ightarrow a(-Delta u(x)) + b |�igtriangledown u(x)|^2 .


The authors consider equations involving fully nonlinear non-local operators involving fractional derivatives of order \(\alpha\). Such kind of operators were introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre. A maximum principle is proved. The method of moving planes plays a crucial role to establish radial symmetry and monotonicity for positive solutions to Dirichlet problems associated to such fully nonlinear fractional order equations in the unit ball and in the whole space, as well as the non-existence of solutions on the half space. The limit of this operator when \(\alpha\) coverges to 2 is also studied.



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