We consider a quasilinear elliptic equation involving a first-order term, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition in half-spaces. We prove that any positive solution is monotone increasing with respect to the direction orthogonal to the boundary. The main ingredient in the proof is a new comparison principle in unbounded domains. As a consequence of our analysis, we also obtain some new Liouville type theorems.
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Farina, Alberto; Montoro, Luigi; Riey, Giuseppe; Sciunzi, Berardino. Monotonicity of solutions to quasilinear problems with a first-order term in half-spaces. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 32 (2015) no. 1, pp. 1-22. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.09.005. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.09.005/
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