Consider the equation div$(φ^2 \nabla σ)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N,$ where $φ>0$. Berestycki, Caffarelli and Nirenberg proved that if there exists $C>0$ such that $\int_{B_R}(φσ)^2 \leq CR^2$ for every $R\geq 1$ then $σ$ is necessarily constant. In this paper we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on $0<Ψ\in C([1,\infty))$ for which this result remains true if we replace $R^2$ with $Ψ(R)$ in any dimension $N$. In the case of the convexity of $Ψ$ for large $R>1$ and $Ψ'>0$, this condition is equivalent to $\displaystyle{\int_1^\infty\frac{1}{Ψ'}=\infty}$.
We study nonexistence and existence of nontrivial positive solutions to the following semilinear elliptic inequality involving gradient terms \[ Δu+u^p\left|\nabla u\right|^q\leq0, \] on weighted graphs, where $(p,q)\in\mathbb{R}^2$. We give a complete classification of $(p,q)$ under which sharp volume growth assumptions are established.
In this paper, we establish the sharp criteria for the nonexistence of positive solutions to the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev (HLS) type system of nonlinear equations and the corresponding nonlinear differential systems of Lane-Emden type equations. These nonexistence results, known as Liouville type theorems, are fundamental in PDE theory and applications. A special iteration scheme, a new shooting method and some Pohozaev type identities in integral form as well as in differential form are created. Combining these new techniques with some observations and some critical asymptotic analysis, we es…
We introduce a new condition on elliptic operators $L= {1/2}\triangle + b \cdot \nabla $ which ensures the validity of the Liouville property for bounded solutions to $Lu=0$ on $\R^d$. Such condition is sharp when $d=1$. We extend our Liouville theorem to more general second order operators in non-divergence form assuming a Cordes type condition.
Liouville type theorems for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations are proven under certain assumptions. These assumptions are motivated by conditions that appear in Liouvile type theorems for the heat equations with a given divergence free drift.
A Liouville type theorem is proven for the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations. It follows from the corresponding theorem on the Stokes equations with the drift. The drift is supposed to belong to a certain Morrey space.
We investigate existence, Liouville type theorems and regularity results for the 3D stationary and incompressible fractional Navier-Stokes equations: in this setting the usual Laplacian is replaced by its fractional power $(-Δ)^{\fracα{2}}$ with $0<α<2$. By applying a fixed point argument, weak solutions can be obtained in the Sobolev space $\dot{H}^{\fracα{2}}(\mathbb{R})$ and if we add an extra integrability condition, stated in terms of Lebesgue spaces, then we can prove for some values of $α$ that the zero function is the unique smooth solution. The additional integrability condition is al…
In this paper, we prove a boundary pointwise regularity for fully nonlinear elliptic equations on cones. In addition, based on this regularity, we give simple proofs of the Liouville theorems on cones.
In this note, we investigate the 3D steady axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations, and obtained Liouville type theorems if the velocity or the vorticity satisfies some a priori decay assumptions.
We will consider the nonlocal Hénon equation $$(-Δ)^s u= |x|^α u^{p},\quad \mathbb{R}^{N},$$ where $(-Δ)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian operator with $0<s<1$, $-2s<α$, $p>1$ and $N>2s$. We prove a nonexistence result for positive solutions in the optimal range of the nonlinearity, that is, when $$1<p<p^*_{α, s}:=\frac{N+2α+2s}{N-2s}.$$ Moreover, we prove that a bubble solution, that is a fast decay positive radially symmetric solutions, exists when $p=p_{α, s}^{*}$.
We prove an infinite dimensional version of the Arnold-Liouville theorem for integrable non-linear PDEs: In a case study we consider the {\em focusing} NLS equation with periodic boundary conditions.
We extend the classical Liouville Theorem from Laplacian to the fractional Laplacian, that is, we prove Every $α$-harmonic function bounded either above or below in all of $R^n$ must be constant.
In this paper, we investigate the 3D inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes flows with vacuum, and obtain regularity criteria and Liouville type theorems in the Lorentz space if a smooth solution $(ρ, \mathbf{u})$ satisfies suitable conditions.
In this paper, we apply the moving plane method to some degenerate elliptic equations to get a Liouville type theorem. As an application, we derive the a priori bounds for positive solutions of some semi-linear degenerate elliptic equations.
In this paper, we investigate the three dimensional stationary compressible Navier-Stokes equations, and obtain Liouville type theorems if a smooth solution $(ρ, \mathbf{u})$ satisfies some suitable conditions. In particular, our results improve and generalize the corresponding result.
In this paper we consider the entire weak solutions of the equations for stationary flows of shear thickening fluids in the plane and prove Liouville theorem under the global boundedness condition of velocity fields.
We study solutions and supersolutions of homogeneous and nonhomogeneous $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic equations with nonstandard growth in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Various Liouville-type theorems and nonexistence results are proved. The discussion is illustrated by a number of examples.
Our aim is to prove Liouville type theorems for the three dimensional steady-state Navier-Stokes equations provided the velocity field belongs to some Lorentz spaces. The corresponding statement contains several known results as a particular case.
We prove some $L^p$-Liouville theorems for hypoelliptic second order Partial Differential Operators left translation invariant with respect to a Lie group composition law in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Results for both solutions and subsolutions are given.
In \cite{LWZ}, we establish Liouville-type theorems and decay estimates for solutions of a class of high order elliptic equations and systems without the boundedness assumptions on the solutions. In this paper, we continue our work in \cite{LWZ} to investigate the role of boundedness assumption in proving Liouville-type theorems for fully nonlinear equations. We remove the boundedness assumption of solutions which was required in the proof of Liouville-type theorems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations or systems in half spaces. We also prove the Liouville-type theorems for supersolutions of…
In this paper, we establish a local gradient estimate for a $p$-Lpalacian equation with a fast growing gradient nonlinearity. With this estimate, we can prove a parabolic Liouville theorem for ancient solutions satisfying some growth restriction near infinity.
Using a variant of Caccioppoli's inequality involving small weights, i.e. weights of the form $(1+|\nabla u|^2)^{-α/2}$ for some $α> 0$, we establish several Liouville-type theorems under general non-standard growth conditions.
We study the triviality of the solutions of weighted superlinear heat equations on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci tensor. We prove a Liouville--type theorem for solutions bounded from below with nonnegative initial data, under an integral growth condition on the weight.
In this paper we consider the entire weak solutions $u$ of the equations for stationary flows of shear thickening fluids in the plane and prove Liouville theorems under the conditions on the finiteness of energy and under the integrability condition of the solutions.
Under a sharp asymptotic growth condition at infinity, we prove a Liouville type theorem for the inhomogeneous porous medium equation, provided it stays universally close to the heat equation. Additionally, for the homogeneous equation, we show that for the conclusion to hold, it is enough to assume the sharp asymptotic growth at infinity only in the space variable. The results are optimal, meaning that the growth condition at infinity cannot be weakened.
In this paper we prove a Liouville theorem for the Chern--Simons--Schr{ö}dinger equation. This result is consistent with the soliton resolution conjecture for initial data that does not lie in a weighted space. See [KKO22] for the soliton resolution result in a weighted space.
We prove Liouville type theorems for the self-similar solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. One of our results generalizes the previous ones by Nečas-Ružička-Šverak and Tsai. Using the Liouville type theorem we also remove a scenario of asymtotically self-similar blow-up for the Navier-Stokes equations with the profile belonging to $L^{p, \infty} (\Bbb R^3)$ with $p> \frac{3}{2}$.
This paper is concerned with the Liouville type theorems for the 3D stationary incompressible Hall-MHD equations. We establish that under some sufficient conditions in local Morrey spaces, solutions of the stationary Hall-MHD equations are identically zero. In particular, we also prove Liouville type results for the stationary incompressible MHD equations on $\mathbb{R}^3$. Our theorems extend and generalize the classical results for the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
Liouville theorems for scaling invariant nonlinear parabolic problems in the whole space and/or the halfspace (saying that the problem does not posses positive bounded solutions defined for all times $t\in(-\infty,\infty)$) guarantee optimal estimates of solutions of related initial-boundary value problems in general domains. We prove an optimal Liouville theorem for the linear equation in the halfspace complemented by the nonlinear boundary condition $\partial u/\partialν=u^q$, $q>1$.
In this note, we improved the Liouville type theorem for the Beltrami flows. Two different methods are used to prove it. One is the monotonicity method, and the other is proof by contradiction. The conditions that we proposed on Beltrami flows are significantly weaker than previously known conditions.
We prove a sharp Onofri-type inequality and non-existence of extremals for a Moser-Tudinger functional on the sphere in the presence of potentials having positive order singularities. We also investigate the existence of critical points and give some sufficient conditions under symmetry or nondegeneracy assumptions.
We prove several Liouville type results for the stationary Hall-MHD and MHD equations. In particular, we show that the velocity and magnetic field, belonging to some Lorentz spaces, must be zero.
In this paper, we will first prove a Liouville theorem to a torsion system. As an application, complete resolutions of symmetry group to the porous medium equation of Fujita type are obtained for symmetric spaces.
In this paper, we investigate the steady simplified Ericksen-Leslie system. For three dimension, we obtain Liouville theorems if $u$ and $\nabla d$ satisfy the Galdi's[1] condition, or some decay conditions. Note that the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system becomes Navier-Stokes equations when $d$ is constant vector.
In this paper, we consider the indefinite fractional elliptic problem. A corresponding Liouville-type theorem for the indefinite fractional elliptic equations is established. Furthermore, we obtain a priori bound for solutions in a bounded domain by blowing-up and re-scaling. We also classify the solutions of some degenerate elliptic equation originated from fractional Laplacian.
We study fully nonlinear elliptic equations such as \[ F(D^2u) = u^p, \quad p>1, \] in $\R^n$ or in exterior domains, where $F$ is any uniformly elliptic, positively homogeneous operator. We show that there exists a critical exponent, depending on the homogeneity of the fundamental solution of $F$, that sharply characterizes the range of $p>1$ for which there exist positive supersolutions or solutions in any exterior domain. Our result generalizes theorems of Bidaut-Véron \cite{B} as well as Cutri and Leoni \cite{CL}, who found critical exponents for supersolutions in the whole space $\R^n$, i…
It is shown that any smooth solution to the stationary Navier-Stokes system in $R^3$ with the velocity field, belonging globally to $L_6$ and $BM0^{-1}$, must be zero.
We obtain an entire Liouville type theorem to the classical semilinear subcritical elliptic equation on Heisenberg group. A pointwise estimate near the isolated singularity was also proved. The soul of the proofs is an a priori integral estimate, which deduced from a generalized formula of that found by Jerison and Lee.
We prove a Liouville-type theorem for bounded stable solutions $v \in C^2(\R^n)$ of elliptic equations of the type (-Δ)^s v= f(v)\qquad {in $\R^n$,} where $s \in (0,1)$ {and $f$ is any nonnegative function}. The operator $(-Δ)^s$ stands for the fractional Laplacian, a pseudo-differential operator of symbol $|ξ|^{2s}$.
We study a Monge-Ampère type equation that interpolates the classical {σ_2} -Yamabe equation in conformal geometry and the 2-Hessian equation in dimension 4.
We prove the symmetry of components and some Liouville-type theorems for, possibly sign changing, entire distributional solutions to a family of nonlinear elliptic systems encompassing models arising in Bose-Einstein condensation and in nonlinear optics. For these models we also provide precise classification results for non-negative solutions. The sharpness of our results is also discussed.
We prove that the only global, strong, spatially periodic solution to the Degasperis-Procesi equation, vanishing at some point (t0, x0), is the identically zero solution. We also establish the analogue of such Liouville-type theorem for the Degasperis-Procesi equation with an additional dispersive term.
In this paper, we are concerned with the critical order Lane-Emden-Hardy equations \begin{equation*} (-Δ)^{\frac{n}{2}}u(x)=\frac{u^{p}(x)}{|x|^{a}} \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, \text{in} \,\,\, \mathbb{R}^{n} \end{equation*} with $n\geq4$ is even, $0\leq a<n$ and $1<p<+\infty$. We prove Liouville theorem for nonnegative classical solutions to the above Lane-Emden-Hardy equations (Theorem \ref{Thm0}), that is, the unique nonnegative solution is $u\equiv0$. Our result seems to be the first Liouville theorem on the critical order equations in higher dimensions ($n\geq3$).
We study Liouville theorems for the non-stationary Stokes equations in exterior domains in $ \mathbb{R}^{n}$ under decay conditions for spatial variables. As applications, we prove that the Stokes semigroup is a bounded analytic semigroup on $L^{ \infty}_{ σ}$ of angle $ π/2$ for $n \geq 3$. We also prove large time estimates for $n=2$ with zero net force.
We prove several Liouville type results for the stationary MHD and Hall-MHD equations. In particular, we show that the velocity and magnetic field, belonging to some Lorentz spaces or satisfying a priori decay assumption, must be zero.
We classify stable and finite Morse index solutions to general semilinear elliptic equations posed in Euclidean space of dimension at most 10, or in some unbounded domains.
