Symmetry via antisymmetric maximum principles in nonlocal problems of variable order
Symmetry via antisymmetric maximum principles in nonlocal problems of variable order
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10.1007/s10231-014-0462-y
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2014-06
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Sven Jarohs;T. Weth
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作者:
Sven Jarohs;T. Weth
We consider the nonlinear problem (P)\qquad\left {I u= f (x, u) &\quad in\Omega,\u= 0 &\quad on\mathbb R^ N ∖ Ω\.(P) I u= f (x, u) in Ω, u= 0 on RN\Ω in an open bounded set Ω ⊂ R^ N Ω⊂ RN, where I I is a nonlocal operator, which may be anisotropic and may have varying order. We assume mild symmetry and monotonicity assumptions on I, Ω I, Ω and the nonlinearity f f with respect to a fixed direction, say x_1 x 1, and we show that any nonnegative weak solution u u of (P)(P) is symmetric in x_1 x 1. Moreover, we have the following alternative: Either u ≡ 0 u≡ 0 in Ω Ω, or u u is strictly decreasing in| x_1|| x 1|. The proof relies on new maximum principles for antisymmetric supersolutions of an associated class of linear problems.