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May  2019, 18(3): 1073-1089. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019052

## The properties of positive solutions to semilinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian

 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

* Corresponding author

Received  December 2017 Revised  April 2018 Published  November 2018

Fund Project: The second author is supported by NSFC(No.11271166), NSF of Jiangsu Province(No. BK2010172), sponsored by Qing Lan Project.

Let
 $Ω$
be either a unit ball or a half space. Consider the following Dirichlet problem involving the fractional Laplacian
 \left\{ \begin{array}{*{35}{l}} \begin{align} & {{(-\Delta )}^{\frac{\alpha }{2}}}u=f(u),\ \ \text{in}\ \ \Omega , \\ & u=0, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \text{in}\ \ {{\Omega }^{c}},\ \\ \end{align} & \ & {} \\\end{array} \right.~~~~(1)
where
 $α$
is any real number between
 zhongwenzy$and $
. Under some conditions on
 $f$
, we study the equivalent integral equation
 \begin{align}u(x) \ = \ \int{{}}_{ Ω}G(x, y)f(u(y))dy, \end{align}~~~~(2)
here
 $G(x, y)$
is the Green's function associated with the fractional Laplacian in the domain
 $Ω$
. We apply the method of moving planes in integral forms to investigate the radial symmetry, monotonicity and regularity for positive solutions in the unit ball. Liouville type theorems-non-existence of positive solutions in the half space are also deduced.
Citation: Rongrong Yang, Zhongxue Lü. The properties of positive solutions to semilinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2019, 18 (3) : 1073-1089. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019052
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