A weighted symmetrization for nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations in inhomogeneous media
In the theory of elliptic equations, the technique of Schwarz symmetrization is one of the tools used to obtain a priori bounds for classical and weak solutions in terms of general information on the data. A basic result says that, in the absence of lower-order terms, the symmetric rearrangement of the solution of an elliptic equation, that we write , can be compared pointwise with the solution of the symmetrized problem. The main question we address here is the modification of the method to...