Monotonicity of non-negative solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations in a cylindrical domain

Abstract

We consider weak solutions to $p$-Laplace equations in cylindrical domains under mixed homogeneous Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. We assume that the right-hand side is positive and locally Lipschitz continuous and we prove that any positive solution is monotone increasing in the $x_N$ direction for any $p>1$. As an application we prove that solutions to Allen-Cahn type equations are one-dimensional as well as a Liouville type result for Lane-Emden type equations.

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