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January  2020, 19(1): 511-525. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020025

## Liouville theorems for stable weak solutions of elliptic problems involving Grushin operator

 Division of Computational Mathematics and Engineering, Institute for Computational Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Received  January 2019 Revised  May 2019 Published  July 2019

Fund Project: This research is funded by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 101.02-2017.307

We consider the boundary value problem
 $\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -{\rm div}_G(w_1\nabla_G u) = w_2f(u) &\text{ in } \Omega,\\ u=0 &\text{ on } \partial\Omega, \end{cases}\end{equation*}$
where
 $\Omega$
is a bounded or unbounded
 $C^1$
domain of
 $\mathbb{R}^N$
,
 $w_1, w_2 \in L^1_{\rm loc}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\}$
are nonnegative functions,
 $f$
is an increasing function,
 $\nabla_G$
and
 ${\rm div}_G$
are Grushin gradient and Grushin divergence, respectively. We prove some Liouville theorems for stable weak solutions of the problem under suitable assumptions on
 $\Omega$
,
 $w_1$
,
 $w_2$
and
 $f$
. We also show the sharpness of our results when
 $\Omega=\mathbb{R}^N$
and
 $f$
has power or exponential growth.
Citation: Phuong Le. Liouville theorems for stable weak solutions of elliptic problems involving Grushin operator. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (1) : 511-525. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020025
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