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November 2018, 17(6): 2379-2394. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018113

A Liouville type theorem to an extension problem relating to the Heisenberg group

Xinjing Wang , Pengcheng Niu ^, and Xuewei Cui

Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710129, China

* Corresponding author

Received June 2017 Revised January 2018 Published June 2018

Fund Project: This work is supported by the Natural Science Basic Research plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2016JM1023). The first author partially supported by NSFC (Grant No. 11471188 & 11771354) and the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (Grant No. 11601427)

We establish a Liouville type theorem for nonnegative cylindrical solutions to the extension problem corresponding to a fractional CR covariant equation on the Heisenberg group by using the generalized CR inversion and the moving plane method.

Keywords: Heisenberg group, extension problem, Liouville type theorem, generalized CR inversion, moving plane method.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A01, 35J57, 35D99.

Citation: Xinjing Wang, Pengcheng Niu, Xuewei Cui. A Liouville type theorem to an extension problem relating to the Heisenberg group. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (6) : 2379-2394. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018113

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[11]	W. Chen and C. Li, Classification of solutions of some nonlinear elliptic equations, Duke Math. J., 63 (1991), 615-622. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-91-06325-8. Google Scholar
[12]	W. Chen and C. Li, Methods on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations, AIMS book series, vol. 4, 2010. Google Scholar
[13]	W. Chen, C. Li and Y. Li, A direct method of moving planes for the fractional Laplacian, Adv. Math., 308 (2017), 404-437. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2016.11.038. Google Scholar
[14]	W. Chen, C. Li and B. Ou, Classification of solutions for an integral equation, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 59 (2006), 330-343. doi: 10.1002/cpa.20116. Google Scholar
[15]	W. Chen and J. Zhu, Indefinite fractional elliptic problem and Liouville theorems, J. Diff. Eqs., 260 (2016), 4758-4785. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2015.11.029. Google Scholar
[16]	M. Chipot, M. Chlebik, M. Fila and I. Shafrir, Existence of positive solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation in ${\mathbb{H}}_{+}^{n}$ with a nonlinear boundary condition, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 223 (1998), 429-471. doi: 10.1006/jmaa.1998.5958. Google Scholar
[17]	M. Chipot, I. Shafrir and M. Fila, On the solutions to some elliptic equations with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions, Advances in Diff. Equs., 1 (1996), 91-110. Google Scholar
[18]	F. Ferrari and B. Franchi, Harnack inequality for fractional Laplacians in Carnot groups, Math. Z., 279 (2015), 435-458. doi: 10.1007/s00209-014-1376-5. Google Scholar
[19]	G. B. Folland, Fundamental solution for subelliptic operators, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 79 (1979), 373-376. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1973-13171-4. Google Scholar
[20]	G. B. Folland and E. M. Stein, Estimates for the ∂_b complex and analysis on the Heisenberg group, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 27 (1974), 429-522. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160270403. Google Scholar
[21]	R. Frank, M. Gonzalez, D. Monticelli and J. Tan, An extension problem for the CR fractional Laplacian, Adv. Math., 270 (2015), 97-137. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2014.09.026. Google Scholar
[22]	N. Garofalo and E. Lanconelli, Existence and nonexistence results for semilinear equations on the Heisenberg group, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 41 (1992), 71-98. doi: 10.1512/iumj.1992.41.41005. Google Scholar
[23]	B. Gidas and J. Spruck, Global and local behavior of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 35 (1982), 528-598. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160340406. Google Scholar
[24]	B. Gidas, W. M. Ni and L. Nirenberg, Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle, Comm. Math. Phys., 68 (1979), 209-243. Google Scholar
[25]	D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Berlin: Springer-Verlage, 1983. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-61798-0. Google Scholar
[26]	L. L. Helms, Introduction to Potential Theory, Pure and Applied Mathematics 22, Wiley-Interscience, New York, London, Sydney, 1969. Google Scholar
[27]	L. Hörmander, Hypoelliptic second order differential equations, Acta Math., 119 (1967), 147-171. doi: 10.1007/BF02392081. Google Scholar
[28]	D. S. Jerison, Boundary regularity in the dirichlet problem for $\Box$b on CR manifolds, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 36 (1983), 143-181. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160360203. Google Scholar
[29]	D. S. Jerison and J. M. Lee, The Yamabe problem on CR manifolds, J. Differential Geom., 25 (1987), 167-197. Google Scholar
[30]	N. S. Landkof, Foundations of Modern Potential Theory, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 1972. Translated from the Russian by A. P. Doohovskoy, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Band 180. Google Scholar
[31]	Y. Lou and M. Zhu, Classifications of nonnegative solutions to some elliptic problems, Differ. Integral Eqs., 12 (1999), 601-612. Google Scholar
[32]	S. Terracini, Symmetry properties of positive solutions to some elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions, Differ. Integral Eqs., 8 (1995), 1911-1922. Google Scholar
[33]	X. Wang, X. Cui and P. Niu, A Liouville theorem for the semilinear fractional CR covariant equation on the Heisenberg group, preprint.Google Scholar

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