Regularity of a free boundary with application to the Pompeiu problem
Analysis of PDEs
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In the unit ball B(0,1), let and (a domain in ) solve the following overdetermined problem: where denotes the characteristic function, and the equation is satisfied in the sense of distributions. If the complement of does not develop cusp singularities at the origin then we prove is analytic in some small neighborhood of the origin. The result can be modified to yield for more general divergence form operators. As an application of this, then, we obtain the regularity of the boundary of a domain without the Pompeiu property, provided its complement has no cusp singularities.
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@article{arxiv.math/0010016,
title = {Regularity of a free boundary with application to the Pompeiu problem},
author = {Luis A. Caffarelli and Lavi Karp and Henrik Shahgholian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0010016},
year = {2007}
}
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24 pages