A note on some overdetermined elliptic problem

Authors Frédéric Hélein, L. Hauswirth, Frank Pacard

Publication date 7 January 2010

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05)

Abstract: We define the notion of an exceptional manifold to be a flat Riemannian manifold with boundary which supports a positive harmonic function satisfying simultaneously a zero Dirichlet condition and a constant (nonzero) Neumann condtion at the boundary. We study the two-dimensional case: we present various examples and give a general construction algorithm of such surface by using complex analysis. We deduce a classification of all such surfaces assuming some further natural hypotheses and prove a Bernstein type theorem.

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