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Characterization of ellipsoids through an overdetermined boundary value problem of Monge-Amp\`ere type

Analysis of PDEs 2013-10-14 v2

Abstract

The study of the optimal constant in an Hessian-type Sobolev inequality leads to a fully nonlinear boundary value problem, overdetermined with non standard boundary conditions. We show that all the solutions have ellipsoidal symmetry. In the proof we use the maximum principle applied to a suitable auxiliary function in conjunction with an entropy estimate from affine curvature flow.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2312,
  title  = {Characterization of ellipsoids through an overdetermined boundary value problem of Monge-Amp\`ere type},
  author = {Barbara Brandolini and Nunzia Gavitone and Carlo Nitsch and Cristina Trombetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2312},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Title change. Few typos