Characterizing compact coincidence sets in the obstacle problem -- a short proof

DOI10.1090/SPMJ/1665MaRDI QIDQ5009096zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Eberle, Georg S. Weiss

Publication date 19 August 2021

Published in St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10490

zbMATH Keywords

coincidence setfree boundaryHele-Shaw flownull quadrature domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unilateral problems for linear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with linear elliptic operators (35J86) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: Motivated by the almost completely open problem of characterizing unbounded coincidence sets of global solutions of the classical obstacle problem in higher dimensions, we give in this note a concise and easy-to-extend proof of the known fact that if the coincidence set $u=0$ of a global solution $u$ is bounded with nonempty interior then it is an ellipsoid.

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