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September  2020, 19(9): 4387-4399. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020200

Maximum principles for a fully nonlinear nonlocal equation on unbounded domains

Xiaoming He 1,, , Xin Zhao 2, and  Wenming Zou 2,

1. 

School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China
2. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

*The corresponding author

Received  October 2019 Revised  March 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: X. He was supported by NSFC Grants (11771468, 11971027, 11271386), and W. Zou by NSFC Grants (11771234, 11926323, 11371212)

In this paper, we study equations involving fully nonlinear nonlocal operators
$ \mathcal {F}_{\alpha}(u(x)) = C_{n, \alpha}P.V.\int_{ \mathbb R^n}\frac{G(u(x)-u(z))}{|x-z|^{n+\alpha}}dz = f(u(x)), \; \; \; x\in \mathbb R^n. $
We shall establish a maximum principle for anti-symmetric functions on any half space, and obtain key ingredients for proving the symmetry and monotonicity for positive solutions to the fully nonlinear nonlocal equations. Especially, a Liouville theorem is derived, which will be useful in carrying out the method of moving planes on unbounded domains for a variety of problems with fully nonlinear nonlocal operators.
Keywords: Maximum principle, Liouville theorem, fully nonlinear equation.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60; 35J20; Secondary: 35R11; 35S15.
Citation: Xiaoming He, Xin Zhao, Wenming Zou. Maximum principles for a fully nonlinear nonlocal equation on unbounded domains. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (9) : 4387-4399. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020200
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