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Serrin's overdetermined problem for fully nonlinear non-elliptic equations

Differential Geometry 2021-08-25 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let uu denote a solution to a rotationally invariant Hessian equation F(D2u)=0F(D^2u)=0 on a bounded simply connected domain ΩR2\Omega\subset R^2, with constant Dirichlet and Neumann data on Ω\partial \Omega. In this paper we prove that if uu is real analytic and not identically zero, then uu is radial and Ω\Omega is a disk. The fully nonlinear operator F≢0F\not\equiv 0 is of general type, and in particular, not assumed to be elliptic. We also show that the result is sharp, in the sense that it is not true if Ω\Omega is not simply connected, or if uu is CC^{\infty} but not real analytic.

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@article{arxiv.1902.01744,
  title  = {Serrin's overdetermined problem for fully nonlinear non-elliptic equations},
  author = {José A. Gálvez and Pablo Mira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01744},
  year   = {2021}
}
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