Overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations
Author(s) -
Luís Silvestre,
Boyan Sirakov
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
calculus of variations and partial differential equations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.329
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1432-0835
pISSN - 0944-2669
DOI - 10.1007/s00526-014-0814-x
Subject(s) - overdetermined system , mathematics , bounded function , differentiable function , nonlinear system , domain (mathematical analysis) , mathematical analysis , elliptic operator , pure mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
We study the situation in which a solution to a fully nonlinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain Ω with an overdetermined boundary condition pre-scribing both Dirichlet and Neumann constant data forces the domain Ω to be a ball. This is a generalization of Serrin's classical result from 1971. We prove that this rigidity result holds for every fully nonlinear Hessian equation which involves a differentiable operator. We also extend the result to some equations with non differentiable operators such as Pucci operators, under the supplementary assumptions that the space dimension is two or the domain is strictly convex
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