Nonlinear exponential twists of the Liouville function

Let λ(n) be the Liouville function. We find a nontrivial upper bound for the sum

Arithmetic Properties of Values at Polyadic Liouville Points of Euler-Type Series with Polyadic Liouville Parameter

Doklady Mathematics - We study the infinite linear independence of polyadic numbers $${{f}_{0}}(\lambda ) = \sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {{(\lambda )}_{n}}{{\lambda }^{n}}$$ , f1(λ) =...     

Liouville Systems of Mean Field Equations

In this article, we discuss the recent work of Lin and Zhang on the Liouville system of mean field equations: $$\Delta{u}_i+\sum_{j}a_{ij}\rho_{j} ({\frac{{h_j}e^{u_{j}}}{\int_{M}{h_{j}e^{u_{j}}}}-{\frac{1}{|M|}}})=0\,\, \quad{\rm on}\, M,$$ where M is a compact Riemann surface and |M| is the area, or $$\Delta{u}_i+\sum_{j}a_{ij}\rho_{j} \frac{{h_j}e^{u_{j}}}{\int_{\Omega}{h_{j}e^{u_{j}}}}=0\,\, \quad{\rm in}\, \Omega,$$ $${u_j}=0,\,\, \quad{\rm on}\, \partial\Omega, $$ where ?? is a bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ . Among other things, we completely determine the set of non-critical parameters and derive a degree counting formula for these systems.     

On Liouville decompositions in local fields

In 1962 Erd\H{o}s proved that every real number may be decomposed into a sum of Liouville numbers. Here we consider more general functions which decompose elements from an arbitrary local field into Liouville numbers. Several examples and applications are given. As an illustration, we prove that for any real numbers , not equal to 0 or 1, there exist uncountably many Liouville numbers such that are all Liouville numbers.

     

The geometric Neumann problem for the Liouville equation

Let Ω denote the upper half-plane ${\mathbb{R}_+^2}$ or the upper half-disk ${D_{\varepsilon}^+\subset \mathbb{R}_+^2}$ of center 0 and radius ${\varepsilon}$ . In this paper we classify the solutions ${v\in\;C^2(\overline{\Omega}\setminus\{0\})}$ to the Neumann problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{lll}{\Delta v+2 Ke^v=0\quad {\rm in}\,\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2_+=\{(s, t)\in \mathbb{R}^2: t >0 \},}\\ {\frac{\partial v}{\partial t}=c_1e^{v/2}\quad\quad\quad{\rm on}\,\partial\Omega\cap\{s >0 \},}\\ {\frac{\partial v}{\partial t}=c_2e^{v/2}\quad\quad\quad{\rm on}\,\partial\Omega\cap\{s <0 \},}\end{array}\right.$$ where ${K, c_1, c_2 \in \mathbb{R}}$ , with the finite energy condition ${\int_{\Omega} e^v < \infty}$ As a result, we classify the conformal Riemannian metrics of constant curvature and finite area on a half-plane that have a finite number of boundary singularities, not assumed a priori to be conical, and constant geodesic curvature along each boundary arc.     

Liouville theorems for stable solutions of biharmonic problem

We prove some Liouville type results for stable solutions to the biharmonic problem $\Delta ^2 u= u^q, \,u>0$ in $\mathbb{R }^n$ where $1 < q < \infty $ . For example, for $n \ge 5$ , we show that there are no stable classical solution in $\mathbb{R }^n$ when $\frac{n+4}{n-4} < q \le \left(\frac{n-8}{n}\right)_+^{-1}$ .     

Some remarks on Liouville type results for quasilinear elliptic equations

For a wide class of nonlinearities satisfying

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we show that any nonnegative solution of the quasilinear equation over the entire must be a constant. Our results improve or complement some recently obtained Liouville type theorems. In particular, we completely answer a question left open by Du and Guo.

     

Sufficient conditions for the self-adjointness of the Sturm—Liouville operator

Let L be the minimal operator in L₂(R¹) generated by the expressionly=?y″+q(x)y, Im q(x) ≡ 0, let Δ_k(k=+-1,+-2,...) be a sequence of disjoint intervals going out to +-∞ for k→+=∞, and let δ_k be the length Δ_k. If (ly,y)^≥?γ_k‖y‖² on all smooth y(x) with support in δ_k, wherebyγ _k>0, $$\sum\nolimits_{k = 1}^\infty {(\gamma _k + \delta _k^{ - 2} ) - 1 = } \sum\nolimits_{k = - \infty }^{ - 1} {(\gamma _k + \delta _k^{ - 2} ) - 1 = \infty ,} $$ . then the operator L is self-adjoint. This theorem generalizes criteria for the self-adjointness of L obtained earlier by R. S. Ismagilov, A. Ya. Povzner, and D. B. Sears.     

f-Laplace非线性方程的梯度估计和Liouville定理

设(M,g,e~(-f)dv_g)是n维完备光滑的度量测度空间.考虑以下非线性椭圆方程△_f~u+hu~α=0,1α(n+m)/(n+m-2)(n+m≥4)和非线性抛物方程(△_f-?/?t)u+hu~α=0,α0正解的梯度估计.对于经典的Laplace情形,Li (Li J. Gradient estimates and harnack inequalities for nonlinear parabolic and nonlinear elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds [J]. J Funct Anal,1991, 100:233-256.)证明了正解的梯度估计和Liouville定理.在本文中,对于上述的f-Laplace方程,作者将推导出相应的结果.     

Liouville type equation with exponential Neumann boundary condition and with singular data

In this paper we will analyze the blow-up behaviors of solutions to the singular Liouville type equation with exponential Neumann boundary condition. We generalize the Brezis–Merle type concentration-compactness theorem to this Neumann problem. Then along the line of the Li–Shafrir type quantization property we show that the blow-up value \(m(0) \in 2\pi \mathbb N\cup \{ 2\pi (1+\alpha )+2\pi (\mathbb N\cup \{0\})\}\) if the singular point 0 is a blow-up point. In the end, when the boundary value of solutions has an additional condition, we can obtain the precise blow-up value \(m(0)=2\pi (1+\alpha )\).     

Liouville Type Theorems for PDE and IE Systems Involving Fractional Laplacian on a Half Space

In this paper, let α be any real number between 0 and 2, we study the Dirichlet problem for semi-linear elliptic system involving the fractional Laplacian:

$$\left \{\begin {array}{l} (-{\Delta })^{\alpha /2}u(x)=v^{q}(x),\ \ \ x\in \mathbb {R}^{n}_{+},\\ (-{\Delta })^{\alpha /2}v(x)=u^{p}(x),\ \ \ x\in \mathbb {R}^{n}_{+},\\ u(x)=v(x)=0,\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x\notin \mathbb {R}^{n}_{+}. \end {array}\right .\label {elliptic} $$

(1)

We will first establish the equivalence between PDE problem (1) and the corresponding integral equation (IE) system (Lemma 2). Then we use the moving planes method in integral forms to establish our main theorem, a Liouville type theorem for the integral system (Theorem 3). Then we conclude the Liouville type theorem for the above differential system involving the fractional Laplacian (Corollary 4).

     

Inverse spectral problems for non-self-adjoint Sturm–Liouville operators with discontinuous boundary conditions

This paper deals with the inverse spectral problem for a non-self-adjoint Sturm–Liouville operator with discontinuous conditions inside the interval. We obtain that if the potential q is known a priori on a subinterval $$ \left[ b,\pi \right] $$ with $$b\in \left( d,\pi \right] $$ or $$b=d$$, then $$h,\,\beta ,\,\gamma $$ and q on $$\left[ 0,\pi \right] $$ can be uniquely determined by partial spectral data consisting of a sequence of eigenvalues and a subsequence of the corresponding generalized normalizing constants or a subsequence of the pairs of eigenvalues and the corresponding generalized ratios. For the case $$b\in \left( 0,d\right) $$, a similar statement holds if $$\beta ,\,\gamma $$ are also known a priori. Moreover, if q satisfies a local smoothness condition, we provide an alternative approach instead of using the high-energy asymptotic expansion of the Weyl m-function to solve the problem of missing eigenvalues and norming constants.     

Liouville type theorems for fourth order elliptic equations in a half plane

Consider an elliptic equation in the half plane with boundary conditions if and if where are second and third order differential operators. It is proved that if and, for some , if if where for some nonnegative integer , then . Results of this type are also established in case under different conditions on and ; furthermore, in one case has a lower order term which depends nonlocally on . Such Liouville type theorems arise in the study of coating flow; in fact, they play a crucial role in the analysis of the linearized version of this problem. The methods developed in this paper are entirely different for the two cases (i) and (ii) ; both methods can be extended to other linear elliptic boundary value problems in a half plane.

     

A singular Liouville equation on planar domains

We show the existence of a solution for an equation where the nonlinearity is logarithmically singular at the origin, namely, $-\mathrm{\Delta }u=(\log u+f(u)){\chi }_{\{u>0\}}$ in $\mathrm{\Omega }\subset {\mathbb{R}}^2$ with Dirichlet boundary condition. The function f has exponential growth, which can be subcritical or critical with respect to the Trudinger–Moser inequality. We study the energy functional $I_{\epsilon }$ corresponding to the perturbed equation $-\mathrm{\Delta }u+g_{\epsilon }(u)=f(u)$, where $g_{\epsilon }$ is well defined at 0 and approximates $-\log u$. We show that $I_{\epsilon }$ has a critical point $u_{\epsilon }$ in $H_0^1(\mathrm{\Omega })$, which converges to a legitimate nontrivial nonnegative solution of the original problem as $\epsilon \to 0$. We also investigate the problem with $f(u)$ replaced by $\lambda f(u)$, when the parameter $\lambda >0$ is sufficiently large.     

Liouville Type Theorems for Elliptic Equations with Gradient Terms

In this paper we obtain Liouville type theorems for nonnegative supersolutions of the elliptic problem ${-\Delta u + b(x)|\nabla u| = c(x)u}$ in exterior domains of ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ . We show that if lim ${{\rm inf}_{x \longrightarrow \infty} 4c(x) - b(x)^2 > 0}$ then no positive supersolutions can exist, provided the coefficients b and c verify a further restriction related to the fundamental solutions of the homogeneous problem. The weights b and c are allowed to be unbounded. As an application, we also consider supersolutions to the problems ${-\Delta u + b|x|^{\lambda}|{\nabla} u| = c|x|^{\mu} u^p}$ and ${-\Delta u + be^{\lambda |x|}|\nabla u| = ce^{\mu |x|}u^p}$ , where p > 0 and λ, μ ≥ 0, and obtain nonexistence results which are shown to be optimal.     

Sign changes in sums of the Liouville function

The Liouville function is the completely multiplicative function whose value is at each prime. We develop some algorithms for computing the sum , and use these methods to determine the smallest positive integer where . This answers a question originating in some work of Turán, who linked the behavior of to questions about the Riemann zeta function. We also study the problem of evaluating Pólya's sum , and we determine some new local extrema for this function, including some new positive values.

     

A radial symmetry and Liouville theorem for systems involving fractional Laplacian

We investigate the nonnegative solutions of the system involving the fractional Laplacian:

$$\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {( - \Delta )^\alpha u_i (x) = f_i (u),} & {x \in \mathbb{R}^n , i = 1,2, \ldots ,m,} \\ \end{array} } \\ {u(x) = (u_1 (x),u_2 (x), \ldots ,u_m (x)),} \\ \end{array} } \right.$$

where 0 < α < 1, n > 2, f _i (u), 1 ≤ i ≤ m, are real-valued nonnegative functions of homogeneous degree p _i ≥ 0 and nondecreasing with respect to the independent variables u ₁, u ₂,..., u _m . By the method of moving planes, we show that under the above conditions, all the positive solutions are radially symmetric and monotone decreasing about some point x ₀ if p _i = (n + 2α)/(n ? 2α) for each 1 ≤ i ≤ m; and the only nonnegative solution of this system is u ≡ 0 if 1 < p _i < (n + 2α)/(n ? 2α) for all 1 ≤ i ≤ m.

     

Superharmonic functions in the Heisenberg group: estimates and Liouville theorems

We state some growth conditions on non negative superharmonic functions of the Heisenberg group in intrinsic cones and prove some non existence results for non negative D_H \Delta_H polyharmonic functions and L¹D_H L^1\Delta_H superharmonic functions.     

A priori bounds and a Liouville theorem on a half-space for higher-order elliptic Dirichlet problems

We consider the 2m-th order elliptic boundary value problem Lu = f (x, u) on a bounded smooth domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions on ∂Ω. The operator L is a uniformly elliptic operator of order 2m given by . For the nonlinearity we assume that , where are positive functions and q > 1 if N ≤ 2m, if N > 2m. We prove a priori bounds, i.e, we show that for every solution u, where C > 0 is a constant. The solutions are allowed to be sign-changing. The proof is done by a blow-up argument which relies on the following new Liouville-type theorem on a half-space: if u is a classical, bounded, non-negative solution of ( − Δ) ^m u  =  u ^q in with Dirichlet boundary conditions on and q > 1 if N ≤ 2m, if N > 2m then .      

A Liouville type theorem for the Schrödinger operator

In this paper we prove that the equation on a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension without boundary and with nonnegative Ricci curvature admits no positive solution provided that is a function satisfying and where , and are constants depending only on the dimension, thus generalizing similar results in P. Li and S. T. Yau (Acta Math. 156 (1986), 153-201), J. Li (J. Funct. Anal. 100 (1991), 233-256) and E. R. Negrin (J. Funct. Anal. 127 (1995), 198-203) in all of which is assumed to be subharmonic. We also give a generalization in case the Ricci curvature of is not necessarily positive but its negative part has quadratic decay under the additional assumption that is unbounded from above.