Symmetry and monotonicity of solutions to some variational problems in cylinders and annuli

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2003-10-24

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Brock, Friedemann

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Southwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics

Abstract

We prove symmetry and monotonicity properties for local minimizers and stationary solutions of some variational problems related to semilinear elliptic equations in a cylinder (-α, α) x ω, where ω is a bounded smooth domain in ℝN-1. The admissible functions satisfy periodic boundary conditions on {±α} x ω, and some other conditions. We show also symmetry properties for related problems in annular domains. Our proofs are based on rearrangement arguments and on the Moving Plane Method.

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Variational problems, Periodic boundary conditions, Neumann problem, Symmetry of solutions, Elliptic equation, Cylinder, Annulus

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Brock, F. (2003). Symmetry and monotonicity of solutions to some variational problems in cylinders and annuli. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2003</i>(108), pp. 1-20.

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