Symmetry and concentration behavior of ground state in axially symmetric domains.
We study symmetry properties of least energy positive or nodal solutions of semilinear elliptic problems with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The proof is based on symmetrizations in the spirit of Bartsch, Weth and Willem (J. Anal. Math., 2005) together with a strong maximum principle for quasi-continuous functions of Ancona and an intermediate value property for such functions.
We study uniformly elliptic fully nonlinear equations , and prove results of Gidas–Ni–Nirenberg type for positive viscosity solutions of such equations. We show that symmetries of the equation and the domain are reflected by the solution, both in bounded and unbounded domains.
A characterization of systems of first order differential equations with (classical) complete solutions is given. Systems with (classical) complete solutions that consist of hyperplanes are also characterized.