An overdetermined problem in potential theory

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.265.85zbMATH Open1279.31003arXiv1205.5165OpenAlexW3100228284MaRDI QIDQ374429FDOQ374429

Authors: Erik Lundberg, Razvan Teodorescu, Dmitry Khavinson 

Publication date: 23 October 2013

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a problem posed by L. Hauswirth, F. H'elein, and F. Pacard, namely, to characterize all the domains in the plane that admit a "roof function", i.e., a positive harmonic function which solves simultaneously a Dirichlet problem with null boundary data, and a Neumann problem with constant boundary data. Under some a priori assumptions, we show that the only three examples are the exterior of a disk, a halfplane, and a nontrivial example. We show that in four dimensions the nontrivial simply connected example does not have any axially symmetric analog containing its own axis of symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5165

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemharmonic functionconformal mappingoverdetermined problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Boundary behavior (theorems of Fatou type, etc.) of harmonic functions in two dimensions (31A20) Conformal mappings of special domains (30C20) Boundary value problems in the complex plane (30E25)

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