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  • 10 - Comparison Principles for Semilinear Poisson PDEs

  • Albert Baernstein II, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    Symmetrization in Analysis
    Published online:
    22 February 2019
    Print publication:
    14 March 2019, pp 356-397

  • Summary

    Chapter 10 establishes comparison principles for solutions of partial differential equations. The prototypical result says that the solution of Poisson's equation gets bigger in an integral sense when the data in the equation is rearranged. Such comparisons have been used in the literature for deriving sharp bounds on certain eigenvalues, obtaining a priori bounds on solutions, and comparing Green functions, among other uses. These integral norm comparisons follow from star function comparisons, and so the task is to prove that rearranging the data in Poisson's equation increases the star function of the solution. The key is a maximum principle argument applied to the difference of star functions, making use of subharmonicity results from the preceding chapter.