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Bifurcation domains from any high eigenvalue for an overdetermined elliptic problem

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-24 v6

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following overdetermined eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain ΩRN+1\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N+1} with N1N\geq1 \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,\, &\text{in}\,\, \Omega,\\ u=0 &\text{on}\,\, \partial \Omega,\\ \partial_\nu u=\text{const} &\text{on}\,\, \partial \Omega. \end{array} \right.\nonumber \end{equation} Let λk\lambda_k be the kk-th eigenvalue of the zero-Dirichlet Laplacian on the unit ball for any kN+k\in \mathbb{N^+} with k3k\geq 3. We can construct kk smooth families of nontrivial unbounded domains Ω\Omega, bifurcating from the straight cylinder, which admit a nonsymmetric solution with changing the sign by k1k-1 times to the overdetermined problem. While the existence of such domains for k=1,2k=1,2 has been well-known, to the best of our knowledge this is the first construction for any positive integer k3k\geq 3. Due to the complexity of studying high eigenvalue problem, our proof involves some novel analytic ingredients. These results can be regarded as counterexamples to the Berenstein conjecture on unbounded domain.

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@article{arxiv.2307.11441,
  title  = {Bifurcation domains from any high eigenvalue for an overdetermined elliptic problem},
  author = {Guowei Dai and Yingxin Sun and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11441},
  year   = {2026}
}
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