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Entire solutions of quasilinear symmetric systems

Analysis of PDEs 2015-11-03 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the following quasilinear elliptic system for all i=1,,mi=1,\cdots,m \begin{equation*} \label{} -div(\Phi'(|\nabla u_i|^2) \nabla u_i) = H_i(u) \quad \text{in} \ \ \mathbb{R}^n \end{equation*} where u=(ui)i=1m:RnRmu=(u_i)_{i=1}^m: \mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R^m and the nonlinearity Hi(u)C1(Rm)R H_i(u) \in C^1(\mathbb R^m)\to \mathbb R is a general nonlinearity. Several celebrated operators such as the prescribed mean curvature, the Laplacian and the pp-Laplacian operators fit in the above form, for appropriate Φ\Phi. We establish a Hamiltonian identity of the following form for all xnRx_n\in\mathbb R \begin{equation*}\label{} \int_{\mathbb R^{n-1}} \left(\sum_{i=1}^{m} \left[ \frac{1}{2} \Phi\left(|\nabla u_i|^2\right) - \Phi'\left(|\nabla u_i|^2\right) |\partial_{x_n} u_i|^2 \right] - \tilde H(u) \right) d x'\equiv C, \end{equation*} where x=(x,xn)Rnx=(x',x_n)\in\mathbb R^{n} and H~\tilde H is the antiderivative of H=(Hi)i=1mH=(H_i)_{i=1}^m. This can be seen as a counterpart of celebrated pointwise inequalities provided by Caffarelli, Garofalo and Segala in \cite{cgs} and by Modica in \cite{m}. For the case of system of equations, that is when m2m\ge 2, we show that as long as αα:=infs>0{2sΦ(s)Φ(s)}\alpha \ge \alpha^*:=\inf_{s>0}\left\{\frac{2 s \Phi'(s)}{\Phi(s)}\right\} the function Iα(r):=1rnαBri=1mΦ(ui2)2H~(u)I_\alpha(r):=\frac{1}{r^{n-\alpha}} \int_{B_r} \sum_{i=1}^{m} \Phi(|\nabla u_i|^2) - 2\tilde H(u) is monotone nondecreasing in rr. We call this a weak monotonicity formula since for m=1m=1 it is shown in \cite{cgs} that Iα(r)I_\alpha(r) is monotone when α1\alpha\ge 1, under certain conditions on Φ\Phi. We prove De Giorgi type results and Liouville theorems for HH-monotone and stable solutions in two and three dimensions when the system is symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02731,
  title  = {Entire solutions of quasilinear symmetric systems},
  author = {Mostafa Fazly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02731},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in Indiana University Math Journal. 27 pages