Guo–Wang's uniqueness conjecture for positive harmonic functions in the unit ball

Let BnB^n be the unit ball, Sn1=BnS^{n-1}=\partial B^n, and let ν\nu denote the unit outer normal vector on Sn1S^{n-1}. For parameters qq and λ\lambda, consider a positive function uC(Bn)u\in C^{\infty}(\overline{B^n}) satisfying

{Δu=0in Bn,uu+λu=uqon Sn1.\left\{\begin{array}{ll} \Delta u=0 &\operatorname{in}\ B^n,\\ u u+\lambda u=u^q &\operatorname{on}\ S^{n-1}. \end{array}\right.

Guo–Wang's conjecture. If 1<q<nn21<q<\frac{n}{n-2} and 0<λ1q10<\lambda\leq\frac{1}{q-1}, then uu is constant.

This conjecture asks for uniqueness of positive harmonic solutions of a nonlinear boundary-value problem in the unit ball. The paper from which the statement is taken presents a proof of Guo–Wang's conjecture, so the conjecture is solved.

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Pingxin Gu and Haizhong Li, “A proof of Guo-Wang's conjecture on the uniqueness of positive harmonic functions in the unit ball”, arXiv:2306.15565 (2023).

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