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A rigidity result for overdetermined elliptic problems in the plane

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-22 v1

Abstract

Let f:[0,+)Rf:[0,+\infty) \to \mathbb{R} be a (locally) Lipschitz function and ΩR2\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2 a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domain whose boundary is unbounded and connected. If there exists a positive bounded solution to the overdetermined elliptic problem {Δu+f(u)=0\mboxin  Ωu=0,uν=1\mboxon  Ω \left\{\begin{array} {ll} \Delta u + f(u) = 0 & \mbox{in }\; \Omega \\ u= 0\, \, \, , \, \, \, \frac{\partial u}{\partial \vec{\nu}}=1 &\mbox{on }\; \partial \Omega \end{array}\right. we prove that Ω\Omega is a half-plane. In particular, we obtain a partial answer to a question raised by H. Berestycki, L. Caffarelli and L. Nirenberg in 1997.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05707,
  title  = {A rigidity result for overdetermined elliptic problems in the plane},
  author = {Antonio Ros and David Ruiz and Pieralberto Sicbaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05707},
  year   = {2015}
}

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28 pages, 7 figures

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