Liouville type theorems for elliptic equations with Dirichlet conditions in exterior domains

Abstract

In this paper, we are mainly concerned with the Dirichlet problems in exterior domains for the following elliptic equations:(0.1)(−Δ)α2u(x)=f(x,u)inΩr:={x∈Rn||x|>r} with arbitrary r>0, where n≥2, 0<α≤2 and f(x,u) satisfies some assumptions. A typical case is the Hardy-Hénon type equations in exterior domains. We first derive the equivalence between (0.1) and the corresponding integral equations(0.2)u(x)=∫ΩrGα(x,y)f(y,u(y))dy, where Gα(x,y) denotes the Green's function for (−Δ)α2 in Ωr with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Then, we establish Liouville theorems for (0.2) via the method of scaling spheres developed in [17] by Dai and Qin, and hence obtain the Liouville theorems for (0.1). Liouville theorems for integral equations related to higher order Navier problems in Ωr are also derived.