A Direct Method of Moving Planes for Logarithmic Schr\"odinger Operator

TL;DR

This paper establishes radial symmetry and monotonicity of solutions to equations involving the logarithmic Schrödinger operator using a direct moving planes method.

Contribution

It introduces a novel direct moving planes technique tailored for the logarithmic Schrödinger operator, a singular integral operator with a logarithmic symbol.

Findings

Proves radial symmetry of solutions

Demonstrates monotonicity of solutions

Develops a new method for nonlocal operators

Abstract

In this paper, we study the radial symmetry and monotonicity of nonnegative solutions to nonlinear equations involving the logarithmic Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger operator $(\mathcal{I}-\Delta)^{\log}$ corresponding to the logarithmic symbol $\log(1 + |\xi|^2)$, which is a singular integral operator given by $$(\mathcal{I}-\Delta)^{\log}u(x) =c_{N}P.V.\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{u(x)-u(y)}{|x-y|^{N}}\kappa(|x-y|)dy,$$ where $c_{N}=\pi^{-\frac{N}{2}}$, $\kappa(r)=2^{1-\frac{N}{2}}r^{\frac{N}{2}}\mathcal{K}_{\frac{N}{2}}(r)$ and $\mathcal{K}_{\nu}$ is the modified Bessel function of second kind with index $\nu$. The proof hinges on a direct method of moving planes for the logarithmic Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger operator.