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We explore Liouville's theorem and the Strong Liouville Property (SLP) for harmonic functions on Riemannian cones and surfaces. Our approach recasts the classical Liouville property in terms of the growth of radial eigenfunctions (in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 John E. Bravo , Jean C. Cortissoz

We study the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u + g(x,u,Du) = 0$ in $\R^n$. The nonlinearities $g$ can have arbitrary growth in $u$ and $Du$, including in particular the exponential behavior. No restriction is imposed on the behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Lucas C. F. Ferreira , Marcelo Montenegro , Matheus C. Santos

We present certain Liouville properties of eigenfunctions of second-order elliptic operators with real coefficients, via an approach that is based on stochastic representations of positive solutions, and criticality theory of second-order…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Debdip Ganguly

We consider semilinear elliptic second-order partial differential inequalities of the form Lu +|u|q-1u < and = Lv +|v|q-1v (*) in the whole space Rn, where n > and = 2, q > 0 and L is a linear elliptic second-order partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Vasilii V. Kurta

In this paper, we establish Liouville theorems for the following system of elliptic differential inequalities $$ \Delta_{\mathbb H}u^{m_1}+|\eta|_{\mathbb H}^{\gamma_1}|v|^p\leq0,$$ $$ \Delta_{\mathbb H}v^{m_2}+|\eta|_{\mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Yadong Zheng

This note contains a representation formula for positive solutions of linear degenerate second-order equations of the form $$ \partial_t u (x,t) = \sum_{j=1}^m X_j^2 u(x,t) + X_0 u(x,t) \qquad (x,t) \in \mathbb{R}^N \times\, ]- \infty…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Alessia E. Kogoj , Y. Pinchover , S. Polidoro

This work is devoted to the study of a Liouville comparison principle for entire weak solutions of quasilinear differential inequalities of the form $A(u) + |u|^{q-1}u \leq A(v) + |v|^{q-1}v$ on ${\Bbb R}^n$, where $n\geq 1$, $q$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-12 Vasilii V. Kurta

Here we study the nonnegative solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi problem \[ \left\{\begin{array} [c]{c}% u_{t}-\nu\Delta u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0, u(0)=u_{0}, \end{array} \right. \] in $Q_{\Omega,T}=\Omega\times\left(0,T\right) ,$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Marie-Françoise Bidaut-Véron , Nguyen Anh Dao

On a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, we consider $L^{p}_{loc}$ distributional solutions of the the differential inequality $-\Delta u + \lambda u \geq 0$ with $\lambda >0$ a locally bounded function that may decay to $0$ at infinity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Andrea Bisterzo , Alberto Farina , Stefano Pigola

We investigate the qualitative properties of positive solutions to mixed local-nonlocal equations with indefinite nonlinearities, emphasizing the interaction between classical and fractional Laplacians. We first establish maximum principles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Pengyan Wang , Leyun Wu

We study nonexistence and existence of nontrivial positive solutions to the following semilinear elliptic inequality involving gradient terms \[ \Delta u+u^p\left|\nabla u\right|^q\leq0, \] on weighted graphs, where $(p,q)\in\mathbb{R}^2$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Lu Hao , Yuhua Sun

In this paper we study Liouville properties of smooth steady axially symmetric solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. First, we provide another version of the Liouville theorem of \cite{kpr15} in the case of zero swirl, where we replaced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Dongho Chae , Shangkun Weng

The current paper is devoted to the study of semilinear dispersal evolution equations of the form $$ u_t(t,x)=(\mathcal{A}u)(t,x)+u(t,x)f(t,x,u(t,x)),\quad x\in\mathcal{H}, $$ where $\mathcal{H}=\RR^N$ or $\ZZ^N$, $\mathcal{A}$ is a random…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Liang Kong , Wenxian Shen

We prove that any nonnegative viscosity solution of the inequality $$(-\Delta_p)^s u(x) \geq u^{t} |\nabla u|^{m}\quad \text{ in }\; \mathbb{R}^N,\; N\geq 2,$$ must be constant. This result holds for parameters $p\in (1, \infty), s\in (0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Mousomi Bhakta , Anup Biswas , Aniket Sen

In this paper, we construct a counterexample to the Liouville property of some nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations of the form$$ \int\_{\mathbb{R}^N\setminus K} J(x-y)\,( u(y)-u(x) )\mathrm{d}y+f(u(x))=0, \quad x\in\R^N\setminus K,$$where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Julien Brasseur , Jérôme Coville

We prove new (sharp) Liouville-type properties via degenerate Hadamard three-sphere theorems for fully nonlinear equations structured over Heisenberg vector fields. As model examples, we cover the case of Pucci's extremal operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Alessandro Goffi

In this paper, we study the fully fractional master equation \begin{equation}\label{pdeq1} (\partial_t-\Delta)^s u(x,t) =f(x,t,u(x,t)),\,\,(x, t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}. \end{equation} First we prove a Liouville type theorem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Wenxiong Chen , Lingwei Ma , Yahong Guo

We consider a class of degenerate elliptic fully nonlinear equations with applications to Grad equations: \begin{align} \begin{cases} |Du|^\gamma \mathcal{M}_{\lambda,\Lambda}^+\big(D^2u(x)\big)=f\big(|u\geq u(x)|\big) &\text{ in }\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Priyank Oza

We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to doubly nonlinear systems of the form \begin{align*} \partial_t \big( |u|^{q-1}u \big) - \operatorname{div} \big( D_\xi f(x,u,Du) \big) = - D_u f(x,u,Du) \end{align*} with $q \in (0, \infty)$ in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Leah Schätzler , Christoph Scheven , Jarkko Siltakoski , Calvin Stanko

We prove a Liouville type result for bounded, entire solutions to a class of variational semilinear elliptic systems, based on the growth of their potential energy over balls with growing radius. Important special cases to which our result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Christos Sourdis