Entire solutions of quasilinear symmetric systems
Abstract
We study the following quasilinear elliptic system for all \begin{equation*} \label{} -div(\Phi'(|\nabla u_i|^2) \nabla u_i) = H_i(u) \quad \text{in} \ \ \mathbb{R}^n \end{equation*} where and the nonlinearity is a general nonlinearity. Several celebrated operators such as the prescribed mean curvature, the Laplacian and the -Laplacian operators fit in the above form, for appropriate . We establish a Hamiltonian identity of the following form for all \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 and is the antiderivative of . 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 , we show that as long as the function is monotone nondecreasing in . We call this a weak monotonicity formula since for it is shown in \cite{cgs} that is monotone when , under certain conditions on . We prove De Giorgi type results and Liouville theorems for -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