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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 uu and Ω\Omega (a domain in R\R) solve the following overdetermined problem: Δu=χΩinB(0,1),0Ω,u=u=0inB(0,1)Ω,\Delta u =\chi_\Omega\quad \hbox{in} B(0,1), \qquad 0 \in \partial \Omega, \qquad u=|\nabla u |=0 \quad \hbox{in} B(0,1)\setminus \Omega, where χΩ\chi_\Omega denotes the characteristic function, and the equation is satisfied in the sense of distributions. If the complement of Ω\Omega does not develop cusp singularities at the origin then we prove Ω\partial \Omega 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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