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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

In this paper, we prove the symmetry of the solution to overdetermined problem for the equation $\sigma_k(D^2u-uI)=C_n^k$ in hyperbolic space. Our approach is based on establishing a Rellich-Pohozaev type identity and using a P function.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Zhenghuan Gao , Xiaohan Jia , Jin Yan

The (unweighted) point-separation problem asks, given a pair of points $s$ and $t$ in the plane, and a set of candidate geometric objects, for the minimum-size subset of objects whose union blocks all paths from $s$ to $t$. Recent work has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jayson Lynch , Jack Spalding-Jamieson

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the two-phase membrane (obstacle) problem by finite difference method. First, we introduce the notion of viscosity solution for the problem and construct certain discrete nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Avetik Arakelyan , Rafayel Barkhudaryan , Michael Poghosyan

A novel approach to an old symmetry problem is developed. A new proof is given for the following symmetry problem, studied earlier.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Alexander G. Ramm

Symmetry is an important feature of many constraint programs. We show that any problem symmetry acting on a set of symmetry breaking constraints can be used to break symmetry. Different symmetries pick out different solutions in each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-05-31 George Katsirelos , Toby Walsh

In this paper we study an overdetermined problem which is directly related to the well known torsion problem studied by J. Serrin. A perturbed version of the latter is tackled by using asymptotic series as well as tools borrowed from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Alessandro Fortunati , Filomena Pacella

Two kinds of configurations involving steps on surfaces are reviewed. The first one results from an initially planar vicinal surface, i.e. slightly deviating from a high-symmetry (001) or (111) orientation. In some cases, these surfaces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anna Chame , Sylvie Rousset , Hans P. Bonzel , Jacques Villain

This paper is concerned with the two--phase obstacle problem, a type of a variational free boundary problem. We recall the basic estimates of Repin and Valdman (2015) and verify them numerically on two examples in two space dimensions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Farid Bozorgnia , Jan Valdman

We prove a rigidity result for Serrin's overdetermined problem in a cone that is contained in a half-space in arbitrary dimensions. In the special case where the cone is an epigraph, this result was shown previously in low dimensions with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Christos Sourdis

In this paper, we deal with the long standing open problem of characterising rotationally symmetric solutions to $\Delta u = -2$, when Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on a ring-shaped planar domain. From a physical perspective,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Virginia Agostiniani , Stefano Borghini , Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper, we consider the thin obstacle problem in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with data at infinity. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of it. Then we show that its symmetric solutions are actually half-space solutions. Our results are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Runcao Lyu , Zikai Ye

This preprint deals with the symmetry of parametrized families of systems and the changes therein as the parameter changes. There are (at least ?) two kinds of symmetry: generic and specific which behave in almost totally opposite ways as…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Michiel Hazewinkel

This paper improves the algorithms based on supporting halfspaces and quadratic programming for convex set intersection problems in our earlier paper in several directions. First, we give conditions so that much smaller quadratic programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-17 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

In contact mechanics computation, the constraint conditions on the contact surfaces are typically enforced by the Lagrange multiplier method, resulting in a saddle point system. Given that the saddle point matrix is indefinite, solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Xiaoyu Duan , Hengbin An

We consider a class of overdetermined problems in rotationally symmetric spaces, which reduce to the classical Serrin's overdetermined problem in the case of the Euclidean space. We prove some general integral identities for rotationally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Giulio Ciraolo , Luigi Vezzoni

The level crossing problem and associated geometric terms are neatly formulated by using the second quantization technique both in the operator and path integral formulations. The analysis of geometric phases is then reduced to the familiar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuo Fujikawa

In the present paper, superconvergence of second order, after an appropriate postprocessing, is achieved for both the two and three dimensional first order rectangular Morley elements of biharmonic equations. The analysis is dependent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Jun Hu , Zhongci Shi , Xueqin Yang

In this work we present a new simple but efficient scheme - Subsquares approach - for development of algorithms for enclosing the solution set of overdetermined interval linear systems. We are going to show two algorithms based on this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jaroslav Horáček , Milan Hladík

In this paper we deal with positive singular solutions to semilinear elliptic problems involving a first order term and a singular nonlinearity. Exploiting a fine adaptation of the well-known moving plane method of Alexandrov-Serrin and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Francesco Esposito , Berardino Sciunzi