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On a Bernoulli-type overdetermined free boundary problem

Analysis of PDEs 2019-11-11 v1

Abstract

In this article we study a Bernoulli-type free boundary problem and generalize a work of Henrot and Shahgholian in \cite{HS1} to A\mathcal{A}-harmonic PDEs. These are quasi-linear elliptic PDEs whose structure is modeled on the pp-Laplace equation for a fixed 1<p<1<p<\infty. In particular, we show that if KK is a bounded convex set satisfying the interior ball condition and c>0c>0 is a given constant, then there exists a unique convex domain Ω\Omega with KΩK\subset \Omega and a function uu which is A\mathcal{A}-harmonic in ΩK\Omega\setminus K, has continuous boundary values 11 on K\partial K and 00 on Ω\partial\Omega, such that u=c|\nabla u|=c on Ω\partial \Omega. Moreover, Ω\partial\Omega is C1,γC^{1,\gamma} for some γ>0\gamma>0, and it is smooth provided A\mathcal{A} is smooth in Rn{0}\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \{0\}. We also show that the super level sets {u>t}\{u>t\} are convex for t(0,1)t\in (0,1).

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@article{arxiv.1911.02801,
  title  = {On a Bernoulli-type overdetermined free boundary problem},
  author = {Murat Akman and Agnid Banerjee and Mariana Smit Vega Garcia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02801},
  year   = {2019}
}
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