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Journal of Differential Equations

Volume 245, Issue 5, 1 September 2008, Pages 1299-1322
Journal of Differential Equations

Partially overdetermined elliptic boundary value problems

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Abstract

We consider semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems in bounded domains, overdetermined with a Neumann condition on a proper part of the boundary. Under different kinds of assumptions, we show that these problems admit a solution only if the domain is a ball. When these assumptions are not fulfilled, we discuss possible counterexamples to symmetry. We also consider Neumann problems overdetermined with a Dirichlet condition on a proper part of the boundary, and the case of partially overdetermined problems on exterior domains.

MSC

35J70
35B50

Keywords

Overdetermined boundary value problem

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