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Unbounded periodic solutions to Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problem

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-13 v2

Abstract

We study the existence of nontrivial unbounded domains Ω\Omega in RN\mathbb{R}^N such that the overdetermined problem Δu=1in Ω,u=0,νu=conston Ω -\Delta u = 1 \quad \text{in $\Omega$}, \qquad u=0, \quad \partial_\nu u=\textrm{const} \qquad \text{on $\partial \Omega$} admits a solution uu. By this, we complement Serrin's classification result from 1971 which yields that every bounded domain admitting a solution of the above problem is a ball in RN\mathbb{R}^N. The domains we construct are periodic in some variables and radial in the other variables, and they bifurcate from a straight (generalized) cylinder or slab. We also show that these domains are uniquely self Cheeger relative to a period cell for the problem.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05727,
  title  = {Unbounded periodic solutions to Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problem},
  author = {Mouhamed Moustapha Fall and Ignace Aristide Minlend and Tobias Weth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05727},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

22 pages. Minor corrections have been made and the bibliographical reference is updated. To appear in Arch. Rational Mech. Anal

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