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Fractional Dirichlet problems with an overdetermined nonlocal Neumann condition

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-16 v2

Abstract

We investigate symmetry and quantitative approximate symmetry for an overdetermined problem related to the fractional torsion equation in a regular open, bounded set ΩRn\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n. Specifically, we show that if Ω\overline{\Omega} has positive reach and the nonlocal normal derivative introduced in (Dipierro, Ros-Oton, Valdinoci, Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 33 (2017), no. 2, 377-416) is constant on an external surface parallel and sufficiently close to Ω\partial \Omega, then Ω\Omega must be a ball. Remarkably, this conclusion remains valid under the sole assumption that Ω\Omega is convex. Moreover, we analyze the quantitative stability of this result under two distinct sets of assumptions on Ω\Omega. Finally, we extend our analysis to a broader class of overdetermined Dirichlet problems involving the fractional Laplacian.

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@article{arxiv.2507.13715,
  title  = {Fractional Dirichlet problems with an overdetermined nonlocal Neumann condition},
  author = {Michele Gatti and Julian Scheuer and Tobias Weth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13715},
  year   = {2026}
}

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2 figures. Comments are welcome. Final version

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