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Quasi-concavity for semilinear elliptic equations with non-monotone and anisotropic nonlinearities

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Abstract

A boundary-value problem for a semilinear elliptic equation in a convex ring is considered. Under suitable structural conditions, any classical solution lying between its (constant) boundary values is shown to decrease along each ray starting from the origin, and to have convex level surfaces.

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Greco, A. Quasi-concavity for semilinear elliptic equations with non-monotone and anisotropic nonlinearities. Bound Value Probl 2006, 80347 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/BVP/2006/80347

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Keywords

  • Differential Equation
  • Partial Differential Equation
  • Ordinary Differential Equation
  • Functional Equation
  • Structural Condition