# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2016, 15(5): 1797-1807. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016015

## A direct method of moving planes for fractional Laplacian equations in the unit ball

 1 Department of Mathematics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, China

Received  October 2015 Revised  March 2016 Published  July 2016

In this paper, we employ a direct method of moving planes for the fractional Laplacian equation in the unit ball. Instead of using the conventional extension method introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre [6], Chen, Li and Li developed a direct method of moving planes for the fractional Laplacian [8]. Inspired by this new method, in this paper we deal with the semilinear pseudo -differential equation in the unit ball directly. We first review key ingredients needed in the method of moving planes in a bounded domain, such as the narrow region principle for the fractional Laplacian. Then, by using this new method, we obtain the radial symmetry and monotonicity of positive solutions for some interesting semi-linear equations.
Citation: Meixia Dou. A direct method of moving planes for fractional Laplacian equations in the unit ball. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (5) : 1797-1807. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016015
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