Serrin's overdetermined theorem within Lipschitz domains
Analysis of PDEs
2026-03-13 v4
Abstract
Let be a Lipschitz domain. We prove that, satisfies the following Serrin-type overdetermined system in the weak sense if and only if is a ball. Here denotes the -dimensional Hausdorff measure. Moreover, a generalization of our method in the anisotropic setting is discussed. Our approach offers an alternative proof to [15] in the case of Lipschitz domains, introducing a novel viewpoint to settle [18, Question 7.1].
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.05155,
title = {Serrin's overdetermined theorem within Lipschitz domains},
author = {Hongjie Dong and Yi Ru-Ya Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05155},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
17pages. We adjusted multiple assumptions from Theorem 1.2 in the pervious draft, narrowing it down to requiring D^2 u\in L^n near the boundary in the current version