Symmetry properties of positive solutions for fully nonlinear elliptic systems

We investigate symmetry properties of positive solutions for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic systems, such as $F_i \,(x,Du_i,D^2u_i) +f_i \,(x,u_1, \ldots , u_n,Du_i)=0, \;\; 1 \leq i \leq n,$ in a bounded domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with Dirichlet boundary condition $u_1=\ldots,u_n=0$ on $\partialΩ$. Here, $f_i$'s are nonincreasing with the radius $r=|x|$, and satisfy a cooperativity assumption. In addition, each $f_i$ is the sum of a locally Lipschitz with a nondecreasing function in the variable $u_i$, and may have superlinear gradient growth. We show that symmetry occurs for systems with nondifferentiable $f_i$'s by developing a unified treatment of the classical moving planes method in the spirit of Gidas-Ni-Nirenberg. We also present different applications of our results, including uniqueness of positive solutions for Lane-Emden systems in the subcritical case in a ball, and symmetry for a class of systems with natural growth in the gradient.

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