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A note on some overdetermined elliptic problem

Mathematical Physics 2010-01-11 v1 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We define the notion of an exceptional manifold to be a flat Riemannian manifold with boundary which supports a positive harmonic function satisfying simultaneously a zero Dirichlet condition and a constant (nonzero) Neumann condtion at the boundary. We study the two-dimensional case: we present various examples and give a general construction algorithm of such surface by using complex analysis. We deduce a classification of all such surfaces assuming some further natural hypotheses and prove a Bernstein type theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1060,
  title  = {A note on some overdetermined elliptic problem},
  author = {Frédéric Hélein and Laurent Hauswirth and Frank Pacard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1060},
  year   = {2010}
}
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