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Concavity of solutions to semilinear equations in dimension two

Analysis of PDEs 2024-12-16 v1

Abstract

We consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of semilinear equations on two dimensional convex domains. We give a sufficient condition for the solution to be concave. Our condition uses comparison with ellipses, and is motivated by an idea of Kosmodem'yanskii. We also prove a result on propagation of concavity of solutions from the boundary, which holds in all dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2204.02384,
  title  = {Concavity of solutions to semilinear equations in dimension two},
  author = {Albert Chau and Ben Weinkove},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02384},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages