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De Giorgi's conjecture in dimension four

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Problem statement

Consider the semilinear elliptic equation Δu+u−u3=0\Delta u + u - u^3 = 0 on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, where Δ\Delta denotes the Laplacian. A function u:Rn→Ru : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R} is called a bounded classical solution if uu is twice continuously differentiable, there exists a constant CC such that ∣u(x)∣≤C|u(x)| \leq C for all x∈Rnx \in \mathbb{R}^n, and uu satisfies Δu(x)+u(x)−u(x)3=0\Delta u(x) + u(x) - u(x)^3 = 0 at every point x∈Rnx \in \mathbb{R}^n. A bounded classical solution uu is said to have positive first partial derivative if ∂1u(x)>0\partial_1 u(x) > 0 for all x∈Rnx \in \mathbb{R}^n, meaning the directional derivative in the direction of the first standard basis vector is strictly positive everywhere. The solution uu is said to have hyperplane level sets if for every value yy in the range of uu, there exists an affine subspace S⊆RnS \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n of codimension 11 (that is, whose direction has dimension n−1n-1) such that the level set u−1({y})={x∈Rn:u(x)=y}u^{-1}(\{y\}) = \{x \in \mathbb{R}^n : u(x) = y\} coincides with SS. De Giorgi's conjecture asserts that in dimension n≤8n \leq 8, every bounded classical solution with positive first partial derivative has hyperplane level sets. For n=4n = 4, does this rigidity property hold? In other words, does every bounded classical solution u:R4→Ru : \mathbb{R}^4 \to \mathbb{R} to Δu+u−u3=0\Delta u + u - u^3 = 0 satisfying ∂1u>0\partial_1 u > 0 everywhere necessarily have hyperplane level sets?

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theorem DeGiorgi_four : (DeGiorgi_conclusion 4)

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