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Fundamental solutions of homogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Analysis of PDEs 2009-10-29 v3 Probability

Abstract

We prove the existence of two fundamental solutions Φ\Phi and Φ~\tilde \Phi of the PDE F(D2Φ)=0inRn{0} F(D^2\Phi) = 0 \quad {in} \mathbb{R}^n \setminus \{0 \} for any positively homogeneous, uniformly elliptic operator FF. Corresponding to FF are two unique scaling exponents α,α~>1\alpha^*, \tilde\alpha^* > -1 which describe the homogeneity of Φ\Phi and Φ~\tilde \Phi. We give a sharp characterization of the isolated singularities and the behavior at infinity of a solution of the equation F(D2u)=0F(D^2u) = 0, which is bounded on one side. A Liouville-type result demonstrates that the two fundamental solutions are the unique nontrivial solutions of F(D2u)=0F(D^2u) = 0 in Rn{0}\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \{0 \} which are bounded on one side in a neighborhood of the origin as well as at infinity. Finally, we show that the sign of each scaling exponent is related to the recurrence or transience of a stochastic process for a two-player differential game.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4002,
  title  = {Fundamental solutions of homogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations},
  author = {Scott N. Armstrong and Boyan Sirakov and Charles K. Smart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4002},
  year   = {2009}
}

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35 pages, typos and minor mistakes corrected