Symmetry of minimizers with a level surface parallel to the boundary

DOI10.4171/JEMS/571zbMATH Open1335.49059arXiv1203.5295OpenAlexW2963136210MaRDI QIDQ894193FDOQ894193

Authors: Giulio Ciraolo, Rolando Magnanini, Shigeru Sakaguchi 

Publication date: 27 November 2015

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the functional ${\displaystyle }$I_Omega(v) = int_Omega [f(|Dv|) - v] dx,${\displaystyle }$ where $Omega$ is a bounded domain and $f$ is a convex function. Under general assumptions on $f$, G. Crasta [Cr1] has shown that if $I_{O}mega$ admits a minimizer in $W_0^{1,1}(Omega)$ depending only on the distance from the boundary of $Omega$, then $Omega$ must be a ball. With some restrictions on $f$, we prove that spherical symmetry can be obtained only by assuming that the minimizer has one level surface parallel to the boundary (i.e. it has only a level surface in common with the distance). We then discuss how these results extend to more general settings, in particular to functionals that are not differentiable and to solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5295

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryminimizersintegral functionalsoverdetermined problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55)

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