A characterization of the ellipsoid through the torsion problem (Q1001479)

In this paper the author considers the \textit{torsion problem}: given \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\geq 2\)) open, bounded and connected, find a solution \(u\) to the problem \[ \Delta u=-1\,\,\text{in }\Omega,\,\,u\bigl|_{\partial\Omega}=0. \] Under suitable hypotheses on the restriction to the boundary of \(x_n^{-1}\partial u/\partial x_n\), the author proves that if the projection of \(\Omega\) onto the hyperplane \(\{x_n=0\}\) is an \((n-1)\)-dimensional ellipsoid, then, in order that the torsion problem be solvable, the domain \(\Omega\) must be an ellipsoid, symmetric in \(x_n\).