Stationary Level Surfaces and Liouville-Type Theorems Characterizing Hyperplanes
Stationary Level Surfaces and Liouville-Type Theorems Characterizing Hyperplanes
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静止水平面和表征超平面的刘维尔型定理
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10.1007/978-88-470-2841-8_17
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2012
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Shigeru Sakaguchi
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作者:
Shigeru Sakaguchi
We consider an entire graph S: x N+ 1= f (x), x∈ ℝ N in ℝ N+ 1 of a continuous real function f over ℝ N with N≥ 1. Let Ω be an unbounded domain in ℝ N+ 1 with boundary∂ Ω= S. Consider nonlinear diffusion equations of the form∂ t U= Δϕ (U) containing the heat equation∂ t U= ΔU. Let U= U (X, t)= U (x, x N+ 1, t) be the solution of either the initial-boundary value problem over Ω where the initial value equals zero and the boundary value equals 1, or the Cauchy problem where the initial datum is the characteristic function of the set ℝ N+ 1∖ Ω. The problem we consider is to characterize S in such a way that there exists a stationary level surface of U in Ω. We introduce a new class of entire graphs S and, by using the sliding method due to Berestycki, Caffarelli, and Nirenberg, we show that must be a hyperplane if there exists a stationary level surface of U in Ω. This is an improvement of the previous result (Magnanini and Sakaguchi in J. Differ. Equ. 252: 236–257, 2012, Theorem 2.3 and Remark 2.4). Next, we consider the heat equation in particular and we introduce the class of entire graphs S of functions f such that {| f (x)− f (y)|:| x− y|≤ 1} is bounded. With the help of the theory of viscosity solutions, we show that must be a hyperplane if there exists a stationary isothermic surface of U in Ω. This is a considerable improvement of the previous result (Magnanini and Sakaguchi in J. Differ. Equ. 248: 1112–1119, 2010, Theorem 1.1, case (ii)). Related to the problem, we consider a class of Weingarten hypersurfaces in ℝ N+ 1 with N≥ 1. Then we show that, if S belongs to in the viscosity sense and S satisfies some natural geometric condition, then must be a hyperplane. This is also a considerable improvement of the previous result (Sakaguchi in Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Ser. S 4: 887–895, 2011, Theorem 1.1).