This paper is devoted to investigate the symmetry and monotonicity properties for positive solutions of fractional Laplacian equations. Especially, we consider the following fractional Laplacian equation with homogeneous Dirichlet condition: [Formula: see text] Here [Formula: see text] is a domain (bounded or unbounded) in [Formula: see text] which is convex in [Formula: see text]-direction. [Formula: see text] is the nonlocal fractional Laplacian operator which is defined as [Formula: see text] Under various conditions on [Formula: see text] and on a solution [Formula: see text] it is shown that [Formula: see text] is strictly increasing in [Formula: see text] in the left half of [Formula: see text], or in [Formula: see text]. Symmetry (in [Formula: see text]) of some solutions is proved.
In this paper, we apply the moving plane method to some degenerate elliptic equations to get a Liouville type theorem. As an application, we derive the a priori bounds for positive solutions of some semi-linear degenerate elliptic equations.
In this paper, we present a necessary and sufficient condition to the Lane-Emden conjecture. This condition is an energy type of integral estimate on solutions to subcritical Lane-Emden system. To approach the long standing and interesting conjecture, we believe that one plausible path is to refocus on establishing this energy type estimate.
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