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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Antonio Greco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2006-02-01
Series:Boundary Value Problems
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/BVP/2006/80347