Monotonicity of solutions to quasilinear problems with a first-order term in half-spaces
Farina, Alberto ; Montoro, Luigi ; Riey, Giuseppe ; Sciunzi, Berardino
Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 32 (2015), p. 1-22 / Harvested from Numdam
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We consider a quasilinear elliptic equation involving a first-order term, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition in half-spaces. We prove that any positive solution is monotone increasing with respect to the direction orthogonal to the boundary. The main ingredient in the proof is a new comparison principle in unbounded domains. As a consequence of our analysis, we also obtain some new Liouville type theorems.

Publié le : 2015-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.09.005
Classification:  35B05,  35B65,  35J70 
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Farina, Alberto; Montoro, Luigi; Riey, Giuseppe; Sciunzi, Berardino. Monotonicity of solutions to quasilinear problems with a first-order term in half-spaces. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 32 (2015) pp. 1-22. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.09.005. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPC_2015__32_1_1_0/

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