Symmetry of solutions to a class of Monge-Ampère equations

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May 2019, 18(3): 1247-1259. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019060

Symmetry of solutions to a class of Monge-Ampère equations

Fan Cui and Huaiyu Jian ^,

Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received April 2018 Revised April 2018 Published November 2018

Fund Project: The second author is supported by NSFC 11771237 and 41390452

We study the symmetry of solutions to a class of Monge-Ampère type equations from a few geometric problems. We use a new transform to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solutions near the infinity. By this and a moving plane method, we prove the radially symmetry of the solutions.

Keywords: Symmetry solution, asymptotic behavior, Monge-Ampère equation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60, 53A15; Secondary: 35J60, 35J96, 53A15.

Citation: Fan Cui, Huaiyu Jian. Symmetry of solutions to a class of Monge-Ampère equations. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2019, 18 (3) : 1247-1259. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019060

References:

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[29]	J. Serrin and H.-H. Zou, Symmetry of Ground states of quasilinear elliptic equations, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 148 (1999), 265-290. doi: 10.1007/s002050050162. Google Scholar
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[1]	H. Berestycki and L. Nirenberg, Monotonicity, symmetry and anti-symmetry of solutions of semilinear elliptic equations, J. Geom. Phys., 5 (1988), 237-275. doi: 10.1016/0393-0440(88)90006-X. Google Scholar
[2]	H. Berestycki and L. Nirenberg, On the method of moving planes and the sliding method, Bol. Soc. Brasil. Mat. (N.S.), 22 (1991), 1-37. doi: 10.1007/BF01244896. Google Scholar
[3]	E. Calabi, Improper affine hypersurfaces of convex type and a generalization of a theorem by K. Jorgens, Michigan Math. J., 5 (1958), 105-126. Google Scholar
[4]	L. Caffarelli, B. Gidas and J. Spruck, Asymptotic symmetry and local behavior of semilinear elliptic equations with critical Sobolev growth, Comm. pure. Appl. Math., 42 (1989), 271-297. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160420304. Google Scholar
[5]	X. Chen and H. Y. Jian, The radial solutions of Monge-Ampère equations and the semi-geostrophic system, Adv. Nonlinear Stud., 5 (2005), 587-600. doi: 10.1515/ans-2005-0407. Google Scholar
[6]	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
[7]	L. Caffarelli, Y. Y. Li and L. Nirenberg, Some remarks on singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. I, J. Fixed Point Theory Appl., 5 (2009), 353-395. doi: 10.1007/s11784-009-0107-8. Google Scholar
[8]	S. Y. Cheng and S. T. Yau, On the regularity of the Monge-Ampere equation $\det ((\partial^2u/\partial x^ix^j)) = F(x,u)$, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 30 (1977), 41-68. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160300104. Google Scholar
[9]	K. S. Chou and X. J. Wang, The L_p-Minkowski problem and the Minkowski problem in centroaffine geometry, Adv. Math., 205 (2006), 33-83. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2005.07.004. Google Scholar
[10]	K. S. Chou and X. J. Wang, Minkowski problems for complete noncompact convex hypersurfaces, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal., 6 (1995), 151-162. doi: 10.12775/TMNA.1995.037. Google Scholar
[11]	M. Dou, A direct method of moving planes for fractorial Laplacian equations in the unit ball, Comm. pure Appl. Anal., 15 (2016), 1797-1807. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016015. Google Scholar
[12]	L. Damascelli, F. Pacella and M. Ramaswamy, Symmetry of ground states of p-Laplace equations via the moving plane method, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 148 (1999), 291-308. doi: 10.1007/s002050050163. Google Scholar
[13]	B. Franchi and E. Lanconelli, Radial symmetry of the ground states for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations, in Nonlinear Diffusion Equations and Their Equilibrium States (eds. W.-M. Ni, L. A. Peletier and James Serrin), Springer-Verlag, (1988), 287–292. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9605-5_17. Google Scholar
[14]	B. Gidas, W.-M. Ni and L. Nirenberg, Symmetry and relatedproperties via the maximum principle, Commun. Math. Phys., 68 (1979), 209-243. Google Scholar
[15]	D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Springer-Verlag, 1997. Google Scholar
[16]	K. Jorgens, Uber die Losunger der Differentialgeichung rt-s² = 1, Math. Anna., 127 (1954), 130-134. doi: 10.1007/BF01361114. Google Scholar
[17]	H. Y. Jian and Y. Li, Optimal boundary regularity for a Singular Monge-Ampère equation, Journal of Differential Equations, 264 (2018), 6873-6890. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2018.01.051. Google Scholar
[18]	H. Y. Jian, J. Lu and X.-J. Wang, Nonuniqueness of solutions to the L_P-Minkowski problem, Adv. Math., 281 (2015), 845-856. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2015.05.010. Google Scholar
[19]	H. Y. Jian, J. Lu and X.-J. Wang, A priori estimates and existences of solutions to the prescribed centroaffine curvature problem, J. Funct. Anal., 274 (2018), 826-862. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2017.08.024. Google Scholar
[20]	H. Y. Jian, J. Lu and G. Zhang, Mirror symmetric solutions to the cetro-affine Minkowski prblem, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 55 (2016). doi: 10.1007/s00526-016-0976-9. Google Scholar
[21]	H. Y. Jian and X.-J. Wang, Bernstein theorem and regularity for a class of Monge-Ampère equation, J. Diff. Geom., 93 (2013), 431-469. Google Scholar
[22]	H. Y. Jian and X.-J. Wang, Existence of entire solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation, Amer. J. Math., 136 (2014), 1093-1106. doi: 10.1353/ajm.2014.0029. Google Scholar
[23]	H. Y. Jian, X.-J. Wang and Y. W. Zhao, Global smoothness for a singular Monge-Ampère equation, Journal of Differential Equations, 263 (2017), 7250-7262. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2017.08.004. Google Scholar
[24]	C. Li, Monotonocity and symmetry of solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations on unbounded domains, Commu. Partial Differ. Equations, 16 (1991), 491-526. doi: 10.1080/03605309108820766. Google Scholar
[25]	Y. Li and W.-M. Ni, On the asymptotic behavior and radial symmetry of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in $R^n$ II. Radial symmetry, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 118 (1992), 223-243. doi: 10.1007/BF00387896. Google Scholar
[26]	Y. Li and W.-M. Ni, Radial symmetry of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations in Rⁿ, Comm. Part. Diff. Eqs., 189 (1993), 104-397. doi: 10.1080/03605309308820960. Google Scholar
[27]	E. Lutwak, The Brunn-Minkowski-Firey theory. I. Mixed volumes and the Minkowski problem, J. Diff. Geom., 38 (1993), 131-150. Google Scholar
[28]	A. V. Pogorelov, The Minkowski Multidimensional Problem, J. Wiley, New York, 1978. Google Scholar
[29]	J. Serrin and H.-H. Zou, Symmetry of Ground states of quasilinear elliptic equations, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 148 (1999), 265-290. doi: 10.1007/s002050050162. Google Scholar
[30]	J. Urbas, Complete noncompact self-similar solutions of Gauss curvature flows I. Positive powers, Math. Ann., 311 (1998), 251-274. doi: 10.1007/s002080050187. Google Scholar

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