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In this paper we consider two-dimensional quasilinear equations of the form $\text{div}\left(a\left(\left|\nabla u\right|\right)\nabla u\right)+f\left(u\right)=0$ and study the properties of the solutions u with bounded and non-vanishing gradient. Under a weak assumption involving the growth of the argument of $\nabla u$(notice that $\text{arg}\left(\nabla u\right)$ is a well-defined real function since $\left|\nabla u\right|>0$ on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$) we prove that $u$ is one-dimensional, i.e., $u=u\left(\nu \cdot x\right)$ for some unit vector $\nu$. As a consequence of our result we obtain that any solution $u$ having one positive derivative is one-dimensional. This result provides a proof of...

Questa Nota è dedicata a mettere in evidenza alcune proprietà degli spazi $BV\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)=N^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ delle funzioni a variazione limitata e degli spazi di Nikolskii $N_1^{\lambda }\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)=N^{\lambda }\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ ed $N^{\lambda ,0}\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$, ( $\lambda \in \left(0,1\right)$ ), che non mi risulta siano già state esposte nella forma generale qui enunciata, quali la non separabilità, l'essere il duale di uno spazio di Banach separabile, la convergenza e la compattezza debole $*$ in $L_{W^{*}}^{\mathrm{\infty }}\left(0,T;N^{\lambda }\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)\right)$ e le loro applicazioni al classico problema di Stefan bifase.

Nella prima parte di questa Nota si dimostrano dei risultati di simmetria unidimensionale e radiale per le soluzioni di $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f\left(u\right)=0$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$. Questi risultati sono legati a due congetture (De Giorgi, 1978 e Gibbons, 1994) riguardanti la classificazione delle soluzioni dell’equazione $\mathrm{\Delta }u+u\left(1-u^2\right)=0$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$. Si dimostra, in particolare, la seguente generalizzazione della congettura di Gibbons: se $N>1$ e se l’insieme degli zeri di $u$ è limitato nella direzione $\nu$, allora $u\left(x\right)=u_0\left(\nu \cdot x\right)$, ovvero, $u$ è unidimensionale. Nella seconda parte si considerano...

We prove pointwise gradient bounds for entire solutions of pde’s of the form      , where ℒ is an elliptic operator (possibly singular or degenerate). Thus, we obtain some Liouville type rigidity results. Some classical results of J. Serrin are also recovered as particular cases of our approach.

Several Liouville-type theorems are presented for stable solutions of the equation $-\Delta u=f\left(u\right)$ in ${ℝ}^N$, where $f>0$ is a general convex, nondecreasing function. Extensions to solutions which are merely stable outside a compact set are discussed.

We use a Poincaré type formula and level set analysis to detect one-dimensional symmetry of stable solutions of possibly degenerate or singular elliptic equations of the form $$\mathrm{div}\left(a\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right)\left|\right)\nabla u\left(x\right)\right)+f\left(u\left(x\right)\right)=0.$$ Our setting is very general and, as particular cases, we obtain new proofs of a conjecture of De Giorgi for phase transitions in ${ℝ}^2$ and ${ℝ}^3$ and of the Bernstein problem on the flatness of minimal area graphs in ${ℝ}^3$. A one-dimensional symmetry result in the half-space is also obtained as a byproduct of our...