# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2011, 4(4): 887-895. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.887

## A Liouville-type theorem for some Weingarten hypersurfaces

 1 Department of Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

Received  September 2009 Revised  January 2010 Published  November 2010

We consider the entire graph $G$ of a globally Lipschitz continuous function $u$ over $R^N$ with $N \ge 2$, and consider a class of some Weingarten hypersurfaces in $R^{N+1}$. It is shown that, if $u$ solves in the viscosity sense in $R^N$ the fully nonlinear elliptic equation of a Weingarten hypersurface belonging to this class, then $u$ is an affine function and $G$ is a hyperplane. This result is regarded as a Liouville-type theorem for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. The special case for some Monge-Ampère-type equation is related to the previous result of Magnanini and Sakaguchi which gave some characterizations of the hyperplane by making use of stationary isothermic surfaces.
Citation: Shigeru Sakaguchi. A Liouville-type theorem for some Weingarten hypersurfaces. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2011, 4 (4) : 887-895. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.887
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