Liouville-type Theorems for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Systems in Half Spaces

Abstract

Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to establish Liouville-type theorems and decay estimates for viscosity solutions to a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations or systems in half spaces without the boundedness assumptions on the solutions. Using the blow-up method and doubling lemma of [18], we remove the boundedness assumption on solutions which was often required in the proof of Liouville-type theorems in the literature. We also prove the Liouville-type theorems for supersolutions of a system of fully nonlinear equations with Pucci extremal operators in half spaces. Liouville theorems and decay estimates for high order elliptic equations and systems have also been established by the authors in an earlier work [15] when no boundedness assumption was given on the solutions.