Balls and Quasi-Metrics: A Space of Homogenous Type Modeling the Real Analysis Related to the Monge-Ampère Equation.
We investigate the behaviour of a sequence , s = 1,2,..., of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplacian in the domains , s = 1,2,..., obtained by removing from a given domain Ω a set whose diameter vanishes when s → ∞. We estimate the deviation of from the eigenvalue of the limit problem. For the derivation of our results we construct an appropriate asymptotic expansion for the sequence of solutions of the original eigenvalue problem.
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 formOur setting is very general and, as particular cases, we obtain new proofs of a conjecture of De Giorgi for phase transitions in and and of the Bernstein problem on the flatness of minimal area graphs in . A one-dimensional symmetry result in the half-space is also obtained as a byproduct of our analysis. Our approach...