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New Homogeneous Solutions for the One-Phase Free Boundary Problem

Analysis of PDEs 2025-09-12 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

For each sufficiently large integer kk, we construct a domain in the round 22-sphere with kk boundary components which is the link of a cone in R3\mathbb{R}^3 admitting a homogeneous solution to the one-phase free boundary problem. This answers a question of Jerison-Kamburov, and also disproves a conjecture of Souam left open in earlier work. The method exploits a new connection with minimal surfaces, which we also use to construct an infinite family of homogeneous solutions in dimension four.

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@article{arxiv.2509.09409,
  title  = {New Homogeneous Solutions for the One-Phase Free Boundary Problem},
  author = {Coleman Hines and James Kolesar and Peter McGrath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09409},
  year   = {2025}
}
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