Serrin's overdetermined problem for fully nonlinear non-elliptic equations

Abstract: Let

u

denote a solution to a rotationally invariant Hessian equation

F (D^{2} u) = 0

on a bounded simply connected domain

O m e g a s u b s e t R^{2}

, with constant Dirichlet and Neumann data on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

. In this paper we prove that if

u

is real analytic and not identically zero, then

u

is radial and

O m e g a

is a disk. The fully nonlinear operator

F o t e q u i v 0

is of general type, and in particular, not assumed to be elliptic. We also show that the result is sharp, in the sense that it is not true if

O m e g a

is not simply connected, or if

u

is

C^{i n f t y}

but not real analytic.

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