J. Korean Math. Soc. 2020; 57(6): 1573-1590
Online first article September 22, 2020 Printed November 1, 2020
https://doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.j190836
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Lidan Wang, Lihe Wang, Chunqin Zhou
Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
In this paper, we classify all solutions bounded from below to uniformly elliptic equations of second order in the form of $Lu(\mathbf{x})=a_{ij}(\mathbf{x})D_{ij}u(\mathbf{x})+b_{i}(\mathbf{x})D_{i}u(\mathbf{x})+c(\mathbf{x})u(\mathbf{x})=f(\mathbf{x})$ or $Lu(\mathbf{x})=D_{i}(a_{ij}(\mathbf{x})$ $D_{j}u(\mathbf{x}))+b_{i}(\mathbf{x})D_{i}u(\mathbf{x})+c(\mathbf{x})u(\mathbf{x})=f(\mathbf{x})$ in unbounded cylinders. After establishing that the Aleksandrov maximum principle and boundary Harnack inequality hold for bounded solutions, we show that all solutions bounded from below are linear combinations of solutions, which are sums of two special solutions that exponential growth at one end and exponential decay at the another end, and a bounded solution that corresponds to the inhomogeneous term $f$ of the equation.
Keywords: Unbounded cylinder, Aleksandrov maximum principle, boundary Harnack inequality
MSC numbers: 35J25
Supported by: This work was financially supported by NSFC of China, No. 11771285
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