RADIAL SYMMETRY AND SPHERICAL NODAL SET OF SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

In this note, we will investigate the radial symmetry of some kind of solutions of nonlinear ellipitic equations $$ \Delta U = f(U) $$ $$ (1.1) U = 0 in B $$ $$ U \in C^2 (\bar{B}) on \partial B$$ Here f is $C^1$ and B denotes a n-dimensional unit ball in $R^n$.