Symmetry theorems for the overdetermined eigenvalue problems

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2006.08.020MaRDI QIDQ868840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 26 February 2007

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2006.08.020

Berenstein's conjecture Dirichlet eigenvalue Neumann eigenvalue Pompeiu problem Schiffer's conjecture

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with constant coefficients (35N05)

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Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) be a bounded domain with \(C^1\) boundary \(\partial \Omega\). Then the Schiffer conjecture asserts that the existence of a nontrivial solution \(u\) of the overdetermined Neumann eigenvalue problems \(\Delta u+\alpha u=0\) in \(\Omega,\alpha>0,u| _{\partial \Omega}=c=\text{const}, \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}| _{\partial \Omega}=0\) (\(\nu\) is the unit exterior normal to \(\partial \Omega\)) implies that \(\Omega\) is a ball. The author has proved that the Schiffer conjecture is true if and only if the third order interior normal derivative of the Neumann eigenfunction \(u\) is constant on \(\partial \Omega\) and \(u\) is symmetric about the center of the ball \(\Omega\). Also by a similar way here the following Berenstein conjecture [\textit{C. A. Berenstein}, J. Anal. Math. 37, 128--144 (1980; Zbl 0449.35024)] is proved: for a bounded \(C^{2,\eta}\) domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) if there exists a nontrivial solution \(v\) of the eigenvalue problem \(\Delta v+\alpha v=0\) in \(\Omega,\alpha>0,v| _{\partial \Omega}=0,\frac{\partial v}{\partial v}| _{\partial \Omega}=0\), then \(\Omega\) is a ball.

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