Monotonicity results for the fractional p-Laplacian in unbounded domains

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a direct method of moving planes in unbounded domains for the fractional p-Laplacians, and illustrate how this new method to work for the fractional p-Laplacians. We first proved a monotonicity result for nonlinear equations involving the fractional p-Laplacian in ℝn without any decay conditions at infinity. Second, we prove De Giorgi conjecture corresponding to the fractional p-Laplacian under some conditions. During these processes, we introduce some new ideas: (i) estimating the singular integrals defining the fractional p-Laplacian along a sequence of approximate maxima; (ii) estimating the lower bound of the solutions by constructing sub-solutions.

Keywords

• the fractional p-laplacian
• narrow region principle
• monotonicity
• de giorgi conjecture