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In this paper, we deal with an overdetermined problem of Serrin-type with respect to a two-phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. In particular, we consider the case where the two-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Lorenzo Cavallina , Giorgio Poggesi , Toshiaki Yachimura

We consider an overdetermined problem of Serrin-type with respect to an operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We give sufficient condition for unique solvability near radially symmetric configurations by means of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Lorenzo Cavallina , Toshiaki Yachimura

We establish symmetry results for two categories of overdetermined obstacle problems: a Serrin-type problem and a two-phase problem under the overdetermination that the interface serves as a level surface of the solution. The first proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Nicola De Nitti , Shigeru Sakaguchi

A celebrated theorem of Serrin asserts that one overdetermined condition on the boundary is enough to obtain radial symmetry in the so-called one-phase overdetermined torsion problem. It is also known that imposing just one overdetermined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Lorenzo Cavallina

This paper investigates the geometric constraints imposed on a domain by overdetermined problems for partial differential equations. Serrin's symmetry results are extended to overdetermined problems with potentially degenerate ellipticity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daomin Cao , Juncheng Wei , Weicheng Zhan

In this article we study the symmetry breaking phenomenon of solutions of noncooperative elliptic systems. We apply the degree for G-invariant strongly indefinite functionals to obtain simultaneously a symmetry breaking and a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Piotr Stefaniak

The main thrust of our current work is to exploit very specific characteristics of a given problem in order to acquire improved compactness for supercritical problems and to prove existence of new types of solutions. To this end, we shall…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Craig Cowan , Abbas Moameni

We exhibit several counterexamples showing that the famous Serrin's symmetry result for semilinear elliptic overdetermined problems may not hold for partially overdetermined problems, that is when both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-18 Ilaria Fragalà , Filippo Gazzola , Jimmy Lamboley , Michel Pierre

We provide a full characterization of multi-phase problems under a large class of overdetermined Serrin-type conditions. Our analysis includes both symmetry and asymmetry (including bifurcation) results. A broad range of techniques is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Lorenzo Cavallina , Giorgio Poggesi

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

The present paper provides symmetry results for a class of overdetermined problems of elliptic and parabolic type in multi-phase settings, including various extensions of remarkable results obtained by S. Sakaguchi in [12, 13]. A new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Lorenzo Cavallina , Giorgio Poggesi

In this paper we study the bifurcation of branches of non-symmetric solutions from the symmetric branch of solutions to the Euler-Lagrange equations satisfied by optimal functions in functional inequalities of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban

In this paper we approach the problem of perturbation from symmetry of strongly indefinite elliptic systems in dimension N>=3. We prove the existence of infinitely many solutions under suitable growth coinditions on the nonlinear terms.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Cristina Tarsi

The issue of symmetry and symmetry breaking is fundamental in all areas of science. Symmetry is often assimilated to order and beauty while symmetry breaking is the source of many interesting phenomena such as phase transitions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michael Loss , Maria Esteban

In this paper, we prove a Serrin-type result for an elliptic system of equations, overdetermined with both Dirichlet and a generalized Neumann conditions. With this tool, we characterize the critical shapes under volume constraint of some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Antonio Celentano , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We study parameterized elliptic systems on symmetric domains with additional system symmetries. We prove the existence of continua of nontrivial solutions bifurcating from the constant branch determined by a critical point of the potential,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Piotr Stefaniak

In this paper, we consider the overdetermined problem for fully non linear singular or degenerate elliptic operators in bounded smooth domains with both Dirichlet and Neumann condition, as in the classical result of Serrin we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-30 I. Birindelli , F. Demengel

We consider overdetermined problems of Serrin's type in convex cones for (possibly) degenerate operators in the Euclidean space as well as for a suitable generalization to space forms. We prove rigidity results by showing that the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Roncoroni

Bifurcation with symmetry is considered in the case of an isotropy subgroup with a two-dimensional fixed point subspace and non-zero quadratic terms. In general, there are one or three branches of solutions, and five qualitatively different…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. C. Matthews

We investigate symmetry-breaking phenomena in semilinear elliptic systems on the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$, focusing on the emergence of non-radial solution branches with prescribed spatial and internal symmetries. Extending previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Casey Crane , Ziad Ghanem
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