Maximum principles for nonlinear integro-differential equations and symmetry of solutions

Abstract

In this paper, we study the semilinear integro-differential equations \begin{equation*} \mathcal{L}_{K}u(x)\equiv C_n\text{P.V.}\int_{\R^n}\left(u(x)-u(y)\right)K(x-y)dy=f(x,u), \end{equation*} and the full nonlinear integro-differential equations \begin{equation*} F_{G,K}u(x)\equiv C_n\text{P.V.}\int_{\R^n}G(u(x)-u(y))K(x-y)dy=f(x,u), \end{equation*} where $K(\cdot)$ is a symmetric jumping kernel and $K(\cdot)\geq C|\cdot|^{-n-\alpha}$, $G(\cdot)$ is some nonlinear function without non-degenerate condition. We adopt the direct method of moving planes to study the symmetry and monotonicity of solutions for the integro-differential equations, and investigate the limit of some non-local operators $\mathcal{L}_{K}$ as $\alpha\to2.$ Our results extended some results obtained in \cite{CL} and \cite{CLLG}.