Ngô Quốc Anh

August 9, 2015

The third fundamental lemma in the method of moving spheres

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 4:03

In this post, we proved the following result (appeared in a paper by Y.Y. Li published in J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2004))

Lemma 1. For n \geqslant 1 and \nu \in \mathbb R, let f be a function defined on \mathbb R^n and valued in [-\infty, +\infty] satisfying

\displaystyle {\left( {\frac{\lambda }{{|y - x|}}} \right)^\nu }f\left( {x + {\lambda ^2}\frac{{y - x}}{{|y - x{|^2}}}} \right) \leqslant f(y), \quad \forall |y - x| > \lambda > 0.

Then f is constant or \pm \infty.

Later, we considered the equality case in this post and proved the following result:

Lemma 2. Let n\geqslant 1, \nu \in \mathbb R and f \in C^0(\mathbb R^n). Suppose that for every x \in \mathbb R^n there exists \lambda(x)>0 such that

\displaystyle {\left( {\frac{\lambda(x) }{{|y - x|}}} \right)^\nu }f\left( {x + {\lambda(x) ^2}\frac{{y - x}}{{|y - x{|^2}}}} \right) =f(y), \quad \forall |y - x| > 0.

Then for some a \geqslant 0, d>0 and \overline x \in \mathbb R^n

\displaystyle f(x) = \pm a{\left( {\frac{1}{{d + {{\left| {x - \overline x } \right|}^2}}}} \right)^{\frac{\nu }{2}}}.

In this post, we consider the third result which can be stated as follows:

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