A characterization of balls through optimal concavity for potential functions

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12196-4MaRDI QIDQ5496241zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paolo Salani

Publication date 30 January 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6274

zbMATH Keywords

Brunn-Minkowski inequalitycapacityconvex setspower-concavity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Overdetermined boundary value problems for PDEs and systems of PDEs (35N25) Ill-posed problems for PDEs (35R25) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Abstract: Let $pin(1,n)$. If $Omega$ is a convex domain in $n$ whose $p$-capacitary potential function $u$ is $(1-p)/(n-p)$-concave (i.e. $u^{(1-p)/(n-p)}$ is convex), then $Omega$ is a ball.

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