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In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere…

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We study symmetry and quantitative approximate symmetry for an overdetermined problem involving the fractional torsion problem in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$. More precisely, we prove that if the fractional torsion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Giulio Ciraolo , Serena Dipierro , Giorgio Poggesi , Luigi Pollastro , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, we characterize the rigidity of umbilical hypersurfaces by a Serrin-type partially overdetermined problem in space forms, which generalizes the similar results in Euclidean half-space and Euclidean half-ball. Guo-Xia first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Yangsen Xie

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 2$, be an open, connected, bounded set with $C^2$ boundary. In this paper we consider the torsion problem with Robin boundary conditions and we study the symmetry of the solutions when suitable extra…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Nunzia Gavitone , Riccardo Molinarolo

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, convex, centrally symmetric in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ with a connected $C^{2,\epsilon}$ ($\epsilon\in(0,1)$) boundary. We show that, if the following overdetermined elliptic problem \begin{equation} -\Delta u=\alpha…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Guowei Dai , Yingxin Sun , Juncheng Wei , Yong Zhang

In this note, we study a Serrin-type partially overdetermined problem proposed by Guo-Xia (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 58: no. 160, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-019-1603-3, and prove a rigidity result that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Xiaohan Jia , Zheng Lu , Chao Xia , Xuwen Zhang

We show that for a very general class of curvature functions defined in the positive cone, the problem of finding a complete strictly locally convex hypersurface in $H^n+1$ satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma\in(0, 1)$ with a prescribed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Bo Guan , Joel Spruck , Ling Xiao

We consider the solution of the problem $$ -\Delta u=f(u) \ \mbox{ and } \ u>0 \ \ \mbox{ in } \ \Omega, \ \ u=0 \ \mbox{ on } \ \Gamma, $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with boundary $\Gamma$ of class $C^{2,\tau}$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Giulio Ciraolo , Rolando Magnanini , Vincenzo Vespri

We prove that, if $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is an open bounded starshaped domain of class $C^2$, the constancy over $\partial \Omega$ of the function $$\varphi(y) = \int_0^{\lambda(y)} \prod_{j=1}^{n-1}[1-t \kappa_j(y)]\, dt$$ implies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Graziano Crasta , Ilaria Fragalà

We study an overdetermined eigenvalue problem for domains $\Omega$ contained in the half-cylinder $\Sigma=\omega \times (0, +\infty)$, based on a bounded regular domain $\omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N-1}$. It is easy to see that in any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Yuanyuan Lian , Filomena Pacella , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

We study necessary conditions on the geometry and the topology of domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that support a positive solution to a classical overdetermined elliptic problem. The ideas and tools we use come from constant mean curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Antonio Ros , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

We consider the heat equation in a smooth bounded convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with nonlinear Neumann boundary condition $\partial_\nu u = \lambda (u - u^3)$. Stable non-constant stationary solutions do not exist when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Maicon Sonego

In this work, we discuss several results concerning Serrin's problem in convex cones in Riemannian manifolds. First, we present a rigidity result for an overdetermined problem in a class of warped products with Ricci curvature bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Murilo Araújo , Allan Freitas , Márcio Santos , Joyce Sindeaux

Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\mathbb{C}$ with hyperbolic metric $\lambda_\Omega(z)|dz|$ of Gaussian curvature $-4.$ Mejia and Minda proved in their 1990 paper that $\Omega$ is (Euclidean) convex if and only if…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Toshiyuki Sugawa

In this article, we study domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{S}^2$ that support positive solutions of the overdetermined problem $$ \Delta u + f(u,|\nabla u|)=0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, $$ subject to the boundary conditions $u=0$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 José M. Espinar , Diego A. Marín

It is known that for $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$ an unbounded convex domain and $H>0$, there exists a graph $G\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ of constant mean curvature $H$ over $\Omega $ with $\partial G=$ $\partial \Omega $ if and only if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Ari J. Aiolfi , Patrícia Klaser

We prove the existence of a family of compact subdomains $\Omega$ of the flat cylinder $\mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}$ for which the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on $\Omega$ admits eigenfunctions with constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Ignace Aristide Minlend , Tobias Weth

We prove that the existence of a solution to a fully nonlinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with an overdetermined boundary condition prescribing both Dirichlet and Neumann constant data forces the domain $\Omega$ to be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Luis Silvestre , Boyan Sirakov

In this paper, we consider the existence of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces with prescribed gradient image. Let $\Omega$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ be uniformly convex bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Rongli Huang , Dayan Wei , Yunhua Ye

We prove compactness of solutions of a fully nonlinear Yamabe problem satisfying a lower Ricci curvature bound, when the manifold is not conformally diffeomorphic to the standard sphere. This allows us to prove the existence of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-14 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen