Regularity of a free boundary with application to the Pompeiu problem

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DOI10.2307/121117zbMATH Open0960.35112arXivmath/0010016OpenAlexW2006686176MaRDI QIDQ1972074FDOQ1972074


Authors: Luis Caffarelli, Lavi Karp, Henrik Shahgholian Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 10 May 2001

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the unit ball B(0,1), let u and Omega (a domain in R) solve the following overdetermined problem: Delta u =chi_Omegaquad hbox{in} B(0,1), qquad 0 in partial Omega, qquad u=| abla u |=0 quad hbox{in} B(0,1)setminus Omega, where chiOmega denotes the characteristic function, and the equation is satisfied in the sense of distributions. If the complement of Omega does not develop cusp singularities at the origin then we prove partialOmega is analytic in some small neighborhood of the origin. The result can be modified to yield for more general divergence form operators. As an application of this, then, we obtain the regularity of the boundary of a domain without the Pompeiu property, provided its complement has no cusp singularities.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010016




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