English

Sign-changing solution for an overdetermined elliptic problem on unbounded domain

Analysis of PDEs 2024-11-13 v6

Abstract

We prove the existence of two smooth families of unbounded domains in RN+1\mathbb{R}^{N+1} with N1N\geq1 such that \begin{equation} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,\, \text{in}\,\,\Omega, \,\, u=0,\,\,\partial_\nu u=\text{const}\,\,\text{on}\,\,\partial\Omega\nonumber \end{equation} admits a sign-changing solution. The domains bifurcate from the straight cylinder B1×RB_1\times \mathbb{R}, where B1B_1 is the unit ball in RN\mathbb{R}^N. These results can be regarded as counterexamples to the Berenstein conjecture on unbounded domain. Unlike most previous papers in this direction, a very delicate issue here is that there may be two-dimensional kernel space at some bifurcation point. Thus a Crandall-Rabinowitz type bifurcation theorem from high-dimensional kernel space is also established to achieve the goal.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2304.05550,
  title  = {Sign-changing solution for an overdetermined elliptic problem on unbounded domain},
  author = {Guowei Dai and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05550},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

32 pages, 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:00:54.702Z