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We prove the Liouville theorem for \emph{non-negative} solutions to (possibly degenerate) Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equations whose linear drift has imaginary spectrum. This provides an answer to a question raised by Priola and Zabczyk since the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Alessia E. Kogoj , Ermanno Lanconelli , Giulio Tralli

The present paper establishes the first result on the absolute continuity of elliptic measure with respect to the Lebesgue measure for a divergence form elliptic operator with non-smooth coefficients that have a BMO anti-symmetric part. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Steve Hofmann , Linhan Li , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

In this paper we prove a Liouville type theorem for generalized stationary Navier-Stokes systems in $\Bbb R^3$, which model non-Newtonian fluids, where the Laplacian term $\Delta u$ is replaced by the corresponding non linear operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Dongho Chae , Joerg Wolf

In this paper, we apply the moving plane method to the following high order degenerate elliptic equation,\begin{equation*} (-A)^p u=u^\alpha\text{ in } \mathbb R^{n+1}_+,n\geq 1, \end{equation*}where the operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Genggeng Huang , Congming Li

Liouville theorems for scaling invariant nonlinear elliptic systems (saying that the system does not possess nontrivial entire solutions) guarantee a priori estimates of solutions of related, more general systems. Assume that $p=2q+3>1$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Pavol Quittner

We consider the $2m$-th order elliptic boundary value problem $Lu=f(x,u)$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ in $R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The operator $L$ is a uniformly elliptic operator of order $2m$. We assume that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-19 Wolfgang Reichel , Tobias Weth

In \cite{LWZ}, we establish Liouville-type theorems and decay estimates for solutions of a class of high order elliptic equations and systems without the boundedness assumptions on the solutions. In this paper, we continue our work in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Guozhen Lu , Jiuyi Zhu

The theory of second order complex coefficient operators of the form $\mathcal{L}=\mbox{div} A(x)\nabla$ has recently been developed under the assumption of $p$-ellipticity. In particular, if the matrix $A$ is $p$-elliptic, the solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Martin Dindoš , Jill Pipher

The Hardy operator is not bounded on the space of integrable functions on the positive half-line and its discrete counterpart on summable sequences. we introduce a modified Hardy operator obtained by subtracting a natural corrective term,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samson Owusu-Ensaw , Benoit F. Sehba , Ransford T. Tweneboanah

The Lp-Liouville property of a non-local operator A is investigated via the associated Dirichlet form. We will show that any non-negative continuous Lp E-subharmonic functions are constant under a quite mild assumption on the kernel of E if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jun Masamune , Toshihiro Uemura

In this paper, we introduce an inverse problem of a Schr\"odinger type variable nonlocal elliptic operator $(-\nabla\cdot(A(x)\nabla))^{s}+q)$, for $0<s<1$. We determine the unknown bounded potential $q$ from the exterior partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Tuhin Ghosh , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jingni Xiao

We establish a Liouville type theorem for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in exterior domains in half spaces under quadratic boundary data and a quadratic growth condition, that is, any viscosity solution tends to a quadratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dongsheng Li , Rulin Liu

This paper is concerned with two properties of positive weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations with nonlinear gradient terms. First, we show a Liouville-type theorem for positive weak solutions of the equation involving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Caihong Chang , Bei Hu , Zhengce Zhang

A result by Courr\`ege says that linear translation invariant operators satisfy the maximum principle if and only if they are of the form $\mathcal{L}=\mathcal{L}^{\sigma,b}+\mathcal{L}^\mu$ where $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Nathaël Alibaud , Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Espen R. Jakobsen

We present some new results concerning perturbation theory for positive solutions of second-order linear elliptic operators, including further study of the equivalence of positive minimal Green functions and the validity of a Liouville…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Debdip Ganguly , Yehuda Pinchover

In this paper we shall establish some Liouville theorems for solutions bounded from below to certain linear elliptic equations on the upper half space. In particular, we show that for $a \in (0, 1)$ constants are the only $C^1$ up to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Lei Wang , Meijun Zhu

We prove the Reilly formula for a class of elliptic divergence differential operator $L_Au=div(A\nabla u)$, where $A$ is a (1,1)-Codazzi tensor field. Then we get some estimates for the first positive eigenvalue of the operator.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-23 S. H. Fatemi , S. Azami

In this article, the authors consider the Schr\"{o}dinger type operator $L:=-{\rm div}(A\nabla)+V$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq 3$, where the matrix $A$ satisfies uniformly elliptic condition and the nonnegative potential $V$ belongs to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Junqiang Zhang , Zongguang Liu

We consider the fractional elliptic inequality with variable-exponent nonlinearity $$ (-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u+\lambda\, \Delta u \geq |u|^{p(x)}, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $N\geq 1$, $\alpha\in (0,2)$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Ahmad Z. Fino , Mohamed Jleli , Bessem Samet

We study the solvability of boundary-value problems for differential-operator equations of the second order in L p (0, 1; X), with 1 < p < +$\infty$, X being a UMD complex Banach space. The originality of this work lies in the fact that we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Angelo Favini , Rabah Labbas , Stéphane Maingot , Alexandre Thorel