American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021019

Classification of positive solutions for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in unbounded cylinders

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA 3 School of Mathematical Sciences, and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

* Corresponding author

Received  August 2020 Revised  December 2020 Published  February 2021

Fund Project: The third author is partially supported by NSFC Grant 11771285 and 12031012

In this paper, we consider the positive viscosity solutions for certain fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in unbounded cylinder with zero boundary condition. After establishing an Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci maximum principle, we classify all positive solutions as three categories in unbounded cylinder. Two special solution spaces (exponential growth at one end and exponential decay at the another) are one dimensional, independently, while solutions in the third solution space can be controlled by the solutions in the other two special solution spaces under some conditions, respectively.

Citation: Lidan Wang, Lihe Wang, Chunqin Zhou. Classification of positive solutions for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in unbounded cylinders. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021019
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