A note on Serrin's overdetermined problem

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1414674618zbMATH Open1312.35010arXiv1401.4385OpenAlexW1982130739MaRDI QIDQ487288FDOQ487288

Giulio Ciraolo, Rolando Magnanini

Publication date: 19 January 2015

Published in: Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the solution of the torsion problem $-Deltau=1$ in $Omega$ and $u=0$ on $partialOmega$. Serrin's celebrated symmetry theorem states that, if the normal derivative $u_u$ is constant on $partialOmega$, then $Omega$ must be a ball. In a recent paper, it has been conjectured that Serrin's theorem may be obtained {it by stability} in the following way: first, for the solution $u$ of the torsion problem prove the estimate ${\displaystyle }$ r_e-r_ileq C_t,Bigl(max_{Gamma_t} u-min_{Gamma_t} uBigr) ${\displaystyle }$ for some constant $C_t$ depending on $t$, where $r_e$ and $r_i$ are the radii of an annulus containing $partialOmega$ and $Gamm{a}_t$ is a surface parallel to $partialOmega$ at distance $t$ and sufficiently close to $partialOmega$; secondly, if in addition $u_u$ is constant on $partialOmega$, show that ${\displaystyle }$ max_{Gamma_t} u-min_{Gamma_t} u=o(C_t) mbox{as} t o 0^+. ${\displaystyle }$ In this paper, we analyse a simple case study and show that the scheme is successful if the admissible domains $Omega$ are ellipses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4385

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zbMATH Keywords

torsion problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with constant coefficients (35N05)

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