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June  2016, 9(3): 815-831. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016030

A symmetry result for degenerate elliptic equations on the Wiener space with nonlinear boundary conditions and applications

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5, I-56127 Pisa 2 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi" & INFN, Università del Salento, P.O.B. 193, 73100, Lecce, Italy 3 Université Aix-Marseille, I2M, UMR CNRS 7353, Marseille, France

Received  November 2014 Revised  April 2015 Published  April 2016

The purpose of this paper is to study a boundary reaction problem on the space $X \times {\mathbb R}$, where $X$ is an abstract Wiener space. We prove that smooth bounded solutions enjoy a symmetry property, i.e., are one-dimensional in a suitable sense. As a corollary of our result, we obtain a symmetry property for some solutions of the following equation $(-\Delta_\gamma)^s u= f(u),$ with $s\in (0,1)$, where $(-\Delta_\gamma)^s$ denotes a fractional power of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator, and we prove that for any $s \in (0,1)$ monotone solutions are one-dimensional.
Citation: Matteo Novaga, Diego Pallara, Yannick Sire. A symmetry result for degenerate elliptic equations on the Wiener space with nonlinear boundary conditions and applications. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2016, 9 (3) : 815-831. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016030
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References:
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