Construction of Radial and Non-radial Solutions for Local and Non-local Equations of Liouville Type

Abstract

This paper deals with radial and non-radial solutions for local and nonlocal Liouville type equations. At first non-degenerate and degenerate mean field equations are studied and radially symmetric solutions to the Dirichlet problem for them are written into explicit form. Non-radial solution is constructed in the case of Blaschke type nonlinearity. The Cauchy boundary value problem for nonlinear Laplace equation with several exponential nonlinearities is considered and C^2 smooth monotonically decreasing radial solution u ( r ) is found. Moreover, u ( r ) has logarithmic growth at ∞. Our results are applied to the differential geometry, more precisely, minimal non-superconformal degenerate two dimensional surfaces are constructed in R^4 and their Gaussian, respectively normal curvatures are written into explicit form. At the end of the paper several examples of local Liouville type PDE with radial coefficients which do not have radial solutions are given.