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A Moser/Bernstein type theorem in a Lie group with a left invariant metric under a gradient decay condition

Differential Geometry 2021-08-09 v1

Abstract

We say that a PDE in a Riemannian manifold MM is geometric if, \ whenever uu is a solution of the PDE on a domain Ω\Omega of MM, the composition uϕ:=uϕu_{\phi}:=u\circ\phi is also solution on ϕ1(Ω)\phi^{-1}\left( \Omega\right) , for any isometry ϕ\phi of M.M. We prove that if uC1(Hn)u\in C^{1}\left( \mathbb{H}^{n}\right) is a solution of a geometric PDE satisfying the comparison principle, where Hn\mathbb{H}^{n} is the hyperbolic space of constant sectional curvature 1,-1, n2,n\geq2, and if lim supR(eRsupSRu)=0, \limsup_{R\rightarrow\infty}\left( e^{R}\sup_{S_{R}}\left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert \right) =0, where SRS_{R} is a geodesic sphere of Hn\mathbb{H}^{n} centered at fixed point oHno\in\mathbb{H}^{n} with radius R,R, then uu is constant. Moreover, given C>0,C>0, there is a bounded non-constant harmonic function vC(Hn)v\in C^{\infty }\left( \mathbb{H}^{n}\right) such that limR(eRsupSRv)=C. \lim_{R\rightarrow\infty}\left( e^{R}\sup_{S_{R}}\left\Vert \nabla v\right\Vert \right) =C. The first part of the above result is a consequence of a more general theorem proved in the paper which asserts that if GG is a non compact Lie group with a left invariant metric, uC1(G)u\in C^{1}\left( G\right) a solution of a left invariant PDE (that is, if vv is a solution of the PDE on a domain Ω\Omega of GG, the composition vg:=vLgv_{g}:=v\circ L_{g} of vv with a left translation Lg:GG,L_{g}:G\rightarrow G, Lg(h)=gh,L_{g}\left( h\right) =gh, is also solution on Lg1(Ω)L_{g}^{-1}\left( \Omega\right) for any gG),g\in G), the PDE satisfies the comparison principle and% lim supR(supgBRAdgsupSRu)=0, \limsup_{R\rightarrow\infty}\left( \sup_{g\in B_{R}}\left\Vert \operatorname*{Ad}\nolimits_{g}\right\Vert \sup_{S_{R}}\left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert \right) =0, where Adg:gg\operatorname*{Ad}\nolimits_{g}:\mathfrak{g}\rightarrow\mathfrak{g} is the adjoint map of GG and g\mathfrak{g} the Lie algebra of G,G, then uu is constant.

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@article{arxiv.2108.02844,
  title  = {A Moser/Bernstein type theorem in a Lie group with a left invariant metric under a gradient decay condition},
  author = {Ari Aiolfi and Leonardo Bonorino and Jaime Ripoll and Marc Soret and Marina Ville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02844},
  year   = {2021}
}