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We establish the existence of positive solutions to a general class of overdetermined semilinear elliptic boundary problems on suitable bounded open sets $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$. Specifically, for $n\leq 4$ and under mild technical…

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We obtain the radial symmetry of the solution to a partially overdetermined boundary value problem in a convex cone in space forms by using the maximum principle for a suitable subharmonic function $P$ and integral identities. In dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Jihye Lee , Keomkyo Seo

In this paper we aim at characterizing the gauge balls in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ as the only domains where suitable overdetermined problems of Serrin type can be solved. We discuss a one parameter family of overdetermined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Vittorio Martino , Giulio Tralli

We study thermal insulating of a bounded body $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Under a prescribed heat source $f\geq 0$, we consider a model of heat transfer between $\Omega$ and the environment determined by convection; this corresponds,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Francesco Della Pietra , Carlo Nitsch , Riccardo Scala , Cristina Trombetti

In this paper, we consider an overdetermined problem of Serrin-type for a two-phase elliptic operator with piecewise constant coefficients. We show the existence of infinitely many branches of nontrivial symmetry breaking solutions which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Lorenzo Cavallina , Toshiaki Yachimura

In this short note we consider an unconventional overdetermined problem for the torsion function: let $n\geq 2$ and $\Omega$ be a bounded open set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose torsion function $u$ (i.e. the solution to $\Delta u=-1$ in $\Omega$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 A. Henrot , C. Nitsch , P. Salani , C. Trombetti

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

We study the existence of nontrivial unbounded domains $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ such that the overdetermined problem $$ -\Delta u = 1 \quad \text{in $\Omega$}, \qquad u=0, \quad \partial_\nu u=\textrm{const} \qquad \text{on $\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Ignace Aristide Minlend , Tobias Weth

We consider Serrin's overdetermined problem for the torsional rigidity and Alexandrov's Soap Bubble Theorem. We present new integral identities, that show a strong analogy between the two problems and help to obtain better (in some cases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Rolando Magnanini , Giorgio Poggesi

In this work we establish some rigidity results for Serrin's overdetermined problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{cll} - \Delta u=f(u) & \text{in}& \Omega,\newline u > 0& \text{in} & \Omega,\newline u=0 & \text{on} & \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Nicolas Beuvin , Alberto Farina

In this paper, we investigate an overdetermined boundary value problem of divergence type on bounded domains in Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. Using integral identities and the $P$-function method, we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Márcio Batista , Márcio Santos , Antônio da Silva , Joyce Sindeaux

In this paper, we consider the Hessian equations in some exterior domain with prescribed asymptotic behavior at infinity and Dirichlet-Neumann conditions on its interior boundary. We obtain that there exists a unique bounded domain such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Bo Wang , Zhizhang Wang

In this paper we consider a minimization problem of the type $$ I_{\beta,p}(D;\Omega)=\inf\biggl\{\int_\Omega \lvert{D\phi}\rvert^pdx+\beta \int_{\partial^* \Omega}\lvert{\phi}\rvert^pd\mathcal{H}^{n-1},\; \phi \in W^{1,p}(\Omega),\;\phi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Rosa Barbato

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial contractible domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{S}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, such that the overdetermined elliptic problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\varepsilon\Delta_{g} u +u-u^{p}=0 &\mbox{in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-08 David Ruiz , Pieralberto Sicbaldi , Jing Wu

Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold and $\Omega$ a smooth domain of $M$. We study the following heat diffusion problem: assume that the initial temperature is equal to $1$, uniformly on $\Omega$, and is $0$ on its complement. Heat will then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Andrea Bisterzo , Alessandro Savo

This paper concerns rigidity results to Serrin's overdetermined problem in an epigraph $$ \{\begin{aligned} &\Delta u+ f(u)=0,\ \ \ {in}\ \Omega=\{(x^\prime,x_n): x_n>\varphi (x^\prime)\},\\ &u>0,\ \ \ {in}\ \Omega,\\ &u=0,\ \ \ {on}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Kelei Wang , Juncheng Wei

We study a weak formulation of Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problem in planar Jordan domains with rectifiable boundary. Our first result establishes that, within the class of rectifiable Jordan Smirnov domains, the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yi Ru-Ya Zhang

Motivated by the Serrin problem, we study weak solutions of the generalised Alt-Caffarelli problem $-\Delta u = f$ in $\Omega$, $u = 0$ on $\partial\Omega$, $\partial_\nu u = Q$ on $\partial\Omega$. Our main result establishes that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Joan Domingo-Pasarin , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper we study some relationships between the first Dirichlet eigenvalue $\Lambda(\Omega)$ and the torsional rigidity $T(\Omega)$ of a domain $\Omega$. We consider the problem of optimizing the product $\Lambda(\Omega)T(\Omega)$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vincenzo Amato , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti , Federico Villone

We consider shape optimization problems for general integral functionals of the calculus of variations, defined on a domain $\Omega$ that varies over all subdomains of a given bounded domain $D$ of ${\bf R}^d$. We show in a rather…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Harish Shrivastava