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Publications and source records attributed to Louis Nirenberg.
The paper concerns singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations, which include removable singularities for viscosity solutions, a strengthening of the Hopf Lemma including parabolic equations, Strong maximum principle and Hopf Lemma for viscosity solutions including also parabolic equations.
In [1], Theorem 3, the authors proved, in one dimension, a generalization of the Hopf Lemma, and the question arose if it could be extended to higher dimensions. In this paper we present two conjectures as possible extensions, and give a very partial answer. We write this paper to call attention to the problem.
The paper concerns singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations.
A classical result of A.D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n-$dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $\Bbb R^{n+1}$, and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of $M$ in a hyperplane $X_{n+1}=$constant in case $M$ satisfies: for any two points $(X', X_{n+1})$, $(X', \hat X_{n+1})$ on $M$, with $X_{n+1}>\hat X_{n+1}$, the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional conditions. Some variations of the Hopf Lemma are also presented. Several open problems are described. Part I dealt with corresponding one dimensional problems.
Let $Ω$ be a domain in a smooth complete Finsler manifold, and let $G$ be the largest open subset of $Ω$ such that for every $x$ in $G$ there is a unique closest point from $\partial Ω$ to $x$ (measured in the Finsler metric). We prove that the distance function from $\partial Ω$ is in $C^{k,α}_{loc}(G\cup \partial Ω)$, $k\ge 2$ and $0<α\le 1$, if $\partial Ω$ is in $C^{k,α}$.
This, and its sequel, concern some variations of a classical theorem of A.D. Alexandrov and teh Hopf Lemma.
We study the distance function to the boundary, Finsler geometry and the singular set of viscosity solutions of some Hamilton-Jacobi equations.