Conformally invariant systems of nonlinear PDE of Liouville type

Geometric and Functional Analysis - Tập 5 - Trang 924-947 - 1995
S. Chanillo1, M. K. -H. Kiessling2
1Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
2Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, USA

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We establish a strict isoperimetric inequality and a Pohozaev-Rellich identity for the system i∈I = {1,...,N} under certain reasonable conditions on the γιJ andu ι. Thus we prove that under these conditions, all solutionsu ι are radial symmetric and decreasing about some point.

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