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In this survey we consider the classical overdetermined problem which was studied by Serrin in 1971. The original proof relies on Alexandrov's moving plane method, maximum principles, and a refinement of Hopf's boundary point Lemma. Since…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 C. Nitsch , C. Trombetti

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

The Dirichlet-Neumann method is a common domain decomposition method for nonoverlapping domain decomposition and the method has been studied extensively for linear elliptic equations. However, for nonlinear elliptic equations, there are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Emil Engström

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 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

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 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

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

We define the notion of an exceptional manifold to be a flat Riemannian manifold with boundary which supports a positive harmonic function satisfying simultaneously a zero Dirichlet condition and a constant (nonzero) Neumann condtion at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-11 Frédéric Hélein , Laurent Hauswirth , Frank Pacard

We consider the classical "Serrin symmetry result" for the overdetermined boundary value problem related to the equation $\Delta u=-1$ in a model manifold of non-negative Ricci curvature. Using an extension of the Weinberger classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alberto Roncoroni

In this work we prove the existence of a classical positive solution for an elliptic equation with a sublinear term. We use Galerkin approximations to show existence of such solution on bounded domains in RN.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Rafael dos Reis Abreu , Anderson Luis Albuquerque de Araujo

We consider an elliptic system with regular H{\"o}lderian weight and exponential nonlinearity or with weight and boundary singularity, and, Dirichlet condition. We prove the boundedness of the volume of the solutions to those systems on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Samy Skander Bahoura

We study overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in subdomains $\O$ of the Euclidean sphere $\mathbb{S}^{N}$ and the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{N}$. We prove, the existence of a classical solution to the underlined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Ignace Aristide Minlend

We examine Serrin's classical overdetermined problem under a perturbation of the Neumann boundary condition. The solution of the problem for a constant Neumann boundary condition exists provided that the underlying domain is a ball. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Alexandra Gilsbach , Michiaki Onodera

We provide several characterizations of ring-shaped rotationally symmetric solutions to the Serrin problem in arbitrary dimensions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Virginia Agostiniani , Chiara Bernardini , Stefano Borghini , Lorenzo Mazzieri

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 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 consider two eliiptic overdetermined boundary value problems. There are variants on J. Serrin's 1971 classical results and having the same conclusion that the domains should be forcibly Euclidean balls.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tewodros Amdeberhan

Gradient boundedness up to the boundary for solutions to Dirichlet and Neumann problems for elliptic systems with Uhlenbeck type structure is established. Nonlinearities of possibly non-polynomial type are allowed, and minimal regularity on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Andrea Cianchi , Vladimir Maz'ya

We study Neumann functions for divergence form, second order elliptic systems with bounded measurable coefficients in a bounded Lipschitz domain or a Lipschitz graph domain. We establish existence, uniqueness, and various estimates for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jongkeun Choi , Seick Kim