Overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Luis Silvestre (1) , Boyan Sirakov (2)

1 Department of Mathematics [Chicago]
2 Departamento de Matematica

We study the situation in which a solution to a fully nonlinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain Ω with an overdetermined boundary condition pre-scribing both Dirichlet and Neumann constant data forces the domain Ω to be a ball. This is a generalization of Serrin's classical result from 1971. We prove that this rigidity result holds for every fully nonlinear Hessian equation which involves a differentiable operator. We also extend the result to some equations with non differentiable operators such as Pucci operators, under the supplementary assumptions that the space dimension is two or the domain is strictly convex.

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Luis Silvestre, Boyan Sirakov. Overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 2014, pp.21. ⟨10.1007/s00526-014-0814-x⟩. ⟨hal-00851720v3⟩