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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 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

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

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

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 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 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 present a quantitative estimate for the radially symmetric configuration concerning a Serrin-type overdetermined problem for the torsional rigidity in a bounded domain $\Omega $, when the equation is known on $\Omega \setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Serena Dipierro , Giorgio Poggesi , Enrico Valdinoci

We investigate an overdetermined Torsion problem, with a non-constant positively homogeneous boundary constraint on the gradient. We interpret this problem as the Euler equation of a shape optimization problems, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Chiara Bianchini , Antoine Henrot , Paolo Salani

This paper investigates the solutions to the two-phase Serrin's problem, an overdetermined boundary value problem motivated by shape optimization. Specifically, we study the torsional rigidity of composite beams, where two distinct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Lorenzo Cavallina

In this paper, we consider a parabolic counterpart of Serrin's overdetermined problem, in which the overdetermined condition (constant flux condition) is imposed only on a discrete infinite set of time values. We show that, under suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Lorenzo Cavallina , Andrea Pinamonti

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

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

We show that a wide range of overdetermined boundary problems for semilinear equations with position-dependent nonlinearities admits nontrivial solutions. The result holds true both on the Euclidean space and on compact Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Miguel Dominguez-Vazquez , Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas

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

We consider a two-phase heat conductor in $\mathbb R^N$ with $N \geq 2$ consisting of a core and a shell with different constant conductivities. We study the role played by radial symmetry for overdetermined problems of elliptic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Lorenzo Cavallina , Rolando Magnanini , Shigeru Sakaguchi

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

We study Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problems in bounded domains on weighted Riemannian manifolds. When the closure of the domain is compact, we establish a rigidity result that characterizes both the solution and the geometry of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Laura Accornero , Giulio Ciraolo

The classical Serrin's overdetermined theorem states that a $C^2$ bounded domain, which admits a function with constant Laplacian that satisfies both constant Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, must necessarily be a ball. While…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Alessio Figalli , Yi Ru-Ya Zhang

In this paper we consider the overdetermined boundary problem for a general second order semilinear elliptic equation on bounded domains of $\mathbf{R}^n$, where one prescribes both the Dirichlet and Neumann data of the solution. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Miguel Domínguez-Vázquez , Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas
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