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Serrin's over-determined Problem on Riemannian Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2014-06-03 v1

Abstract

Let (M,g)(\mathcal{M},g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension NN, N2N\geq 2. In this paper, we prove that there exists a family of domains (Ωε)ε(0,ε0)(\Omega_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon\in(0,\varepsilon_0)} and functions uεu_\varepsilon such that Δguε=1 in Ωε,uε=0 on Ωε,g(guε,νε)=εN on Ωε, -\Delta_{g} u_\varepsilon=1 \quad \textrm{ in } \Omega_\varepsilon, \quad u_\varepsilon=0 \quad\textrm{ on }\partial\Omega_\varepsilon, \quad {g}(\nabla_{ {g}} {u_\varepsilon}, {\nu}_\varepsilon)=-\frac{\varepsilon}{N} \quad \textrm{ on }\partial\Omega_\varepsilon, where νε\nu_\varepsilon is the unit outer normal of Ωε\partial\Omega_\varepsilon. The domains Ωε\Omega_\varepsilon are smooth perturbations of geodesic balls of radius ε\varepsilon centered at some point p0p_0. If, in addition, p0p_0 is a non-degenerate critical point of the scalar curvature of gg then, the family (Ωε)ε(0,ε0)(\partial\Omega_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon\in(0,\varepsilon_0)} constitutes a smooth foliation of a neighborhood of p0p_0. By considering a family of domains Ωε\Omega_\varepsilon in which the above overdetermined system is satisfied, we also prove that if this family converges to some point p0p_0 in a suitable sense as ε0\varepsilon\to 0, then p0p_0 is a critical point of the scalar curvature. A Taylor expansion of he energy rigidity for the torsion problem is also given.

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@article{arxiv.1406.0065,
  title  = {Serrin's over-determined Problem on Riemannian Manifolds},
  author = {Mouhamed Moustapha Fall and Ignace Aristide Minlend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0065},
  year   = {2014}
}

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40 pages

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