On the curvature of some free boundaries in higher dimensions

DOI10.1007/S13324-012-0032-7MaRDI QIDQ692465zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Björn Gustafsson, Makoto Sakai

Publication date 6 December 2012

Published in Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4673

zbMATH Keywords

Brouwer degreequadrature domaininner ball conditionSchwarz potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Abstract: It is known that any subharmonic quadrature domain in two dimensions satisfies a natural inner ball condition, in other words there is a specific upper bound on the curvature of the boundary. This result directly applies to free boundaries appearing in obstacle type problems and in Hele-Shaw flow. In the present paper we make partial progress on the corresponding question in higher dimensions. Specifically, we prove the equivalence between several different ways to formulate the inner ball condition, and we compute the Brouwer degree for a geometrically important mapping related to the Schwarz potential of the boundary. The latter gives in particular a new proof in the two dimensional case.

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