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Serrin's overdetermined theorem within Lipschitz domains

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-13 v4

Abstract

Let ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n be a Lipschitz domain. We prove that, Ω\Omega satisfies the following Serrin-type overdetermined system uW1,2(Rn),u=0  a.e. in RnΩ,Δu=cHn1Ω1Ωdx,u \in W^{1,2}(\mathbb R^n), \quad u=0\ \text{ a.e. in }\mathbb R^n\setminus \Omega,\quad \Delta u=\mathbf{c}\mathscr{H}^{n-1}|_{\partial^*\Omega} - \mathbf{1}_{\Omega}\,dx, in the weak sense if and only if Ω\Omega is a ball. Here Hn1\mathscr H^{n-1} denotes the (n1)(n-1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure. Moreover, a generalization of our method in the anisotropic setting is discussed. Our approach offers an alternative proof to [15] in the case of Lipschitz domains, introducing a novel viewpoint to settle [18, Question 7.1].

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@article{arxiv.2509.05155,
  title  = {Serrin's overdetermined theorem within Lipschitz domains},
  author = {Hongjie Dong and Yi Ru-Ya Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05155},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

17pages. We adjusted multiple assumptions from Theorem 1.2 in the pervious draft, narrowing it down to requiring D^2 u\in L^n near the boundary in the current version

R2 v1 2026-07-01T05:23:14.451Z