ACTA MATHEMATICA
UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE




Vol. LXXXI, 1 (2012)
p. 105 - 116

Counter-example for Liouville theorems
for indefinite problems on half spaces


J. Foeldes

Received: August 24, 2011;   Accepted: December 21, 2011



Abstract.   The goal of this paper is a construction of an counter-example to Liouville theorems for indefinite problems on half spaces. Since Liouville theorems are closely related to the scaling method for elliptic and parabolic problems, our counter-example indicates that one has to impose additional assumptions on the nodal set of nonlinearity in order to obtain a priori estimates for indefinite elliptic problems. The counter-example is constructed by shooting method in one-dimensional case and then extended to higher dimensions.  

AMS Subject classification: Primary:  34B40, 34B15, 35B53, 35J25.  





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