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Liouville theorems for anisotropic $p$-Laplace equations with a semilinear term

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate Liouville theorems for solutions to the anisotropic pp-Laplace equation ΔpHu=div(a(u))=f(u),in Rn,-\Delta_p^H u=-\operatorname{div}(a(\nabla u))=f(u),\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^n, where the semilinear term ff may be positive, negative, or sign-changing. When ff is positive (negative) and satisfies certain conditions, Serrin's technique is applied to show that every positive supersolution (subsolution) must be constant. For the subcritical case, we use the invariant tensor method to prove nonexistence results for positive solutions. In particular, by applying the differential identity established in the subcritical case to the critical case, we provide a simplified new proof of the classification of positive solutions to the critical case f(u)=up1f(u)=u^{p^*-1}. For sign-changing solutions, every stable solution or solution that is stable outside a compact set is trivial under certain conditions on ff.

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@article{arxiv.2507.20182,
  title  = {Liouville theorems for anisotropic $p$-Laplace equations with a semilinear term},
  author = {Weizhao Liang and Tian Wu and Jin Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20182},
  year   = {2025}
}