Monotonicity and one-dimensional symmetry for solutions of -_pu = f(u) in half-spaces

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Abstract: We consider weak distributional solutions to the equation −Deltapu=f(u) in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For p>2 (the case 1<pleq2 is already known) we prove that any positive solution is strictly monotone increasing in the direction orthogonal to the boundary of the half-space. As a consequence we deduce some Liouville type theorems for the Lane-Emden type equation. Furthermore any nonnegative solution turns out to be C2,alpha smooth.


From the abstract: ``We prove a weak comparison principle in narrow domains for sub-super solutions to \(-\Delta_{p}u = f(u)\) in the case \(1 < p \leq 2\) and \(f\) locally Lipschitz continuous. We exploit it to get the monotonicity of positive solutions to \(-\Delta_{p}u = f(u)\) in half spaces, in the case \(\frac{2N+2}{N+2} < p \leq 2\) and \(f\) positive. Also we use the monotonicity result to deduce some Liouville-type theorems. We then consider a class of sign-changing nonlinearities and prove a monotonicity and a one-dimensional symmetry result, via the same techniques and some general a-priori estimates.



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