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Study proves radial symmetry of solutions to certain nonlinear equations in space forms.

Study solves overdetermined problem on compact surfaces.

The purpose of this present paper is to investigate the geometric structure of regular overdetermined systems of second order with two independent and one dependent variables from the point of view of rank 2 prolongations. Utilizing this notion of prolongations, we characterize the type of these overdetermined systems.…

Study proves radial symmetry in convex cones using subharmonic functions.

Rigidity theorem for spherical sectors in Riemannian manifolds.

New domains found in hyperbolic space solve a specific elliptic problem.

The paper characterizes gauge balls in the Heisenberg group and solves overdetermined problems.

We show that a wide range of overdetermined boundary problems for semilinear equations with position-dependent nonlinearities admits nontrivial solutions. The result holds true both on the Euclidean space and on compact Riemannian manifolds. As a byproduct of the proofs we also obtain some rigidity, or partial symmetry…

We introduce a method, based on the Poincare-Hopf index theorem, to classify solutions to overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in domains diffeomorphic to a closed disk. Applications to some well-known nonlinear elliptic PDEs are provided. Our result can be seen as the analogue of Hopf's uniqu…

Paper characterizes umbilical hypersurfaces using a generalized overdetermined problem.

We consider an overdetermined Serrin's type problem in space forms and we generalize Weinberger's proof in [Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 43 (1971)] by introducing a suitable P-function.

Study p-Laplacian equation on Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.

We show that a wide class of geometrically defined overdetermined semilinear partial differential equations may be explicitly prolonged to obtain closed systems. As a consequence, in the case of linear equations we extract sharp bounds on the dimension of the solution space.

Paper solves overdetermined $k$-Hessian equation in exterior domains.

This article addresses the question of involutiveness and discusses the initial value problem for a class of overdetermined systems of partial differential equations which arise in the theory of integrable systems and are defined by tableaux.

We classify the solutions to an overdetermined elliptic problem in the plane in the finite connectivity case. This is achieved by establishing a one-to-one correspondence between the solutions to this problem and a certain type of minimal surfaces.

We consider a class of overdetermined problems in rotationally symmetric spaces, which reduce to the classical Serrin's overdetermined problem in the case of the Euclidean space. We prove some general integral identities for rotationally symmetric spaces which imply a rigidity result in the case of the round sphere.

Paper solves a mixed boundary value problem in space forms with umbilical boundaries.

In this paper we investigate overdetermined systems of scalar PDEs on the plane with one common characteristic, whose general solution depends on 1 function of 1 variable. We describe linearization of such systems and their integration via Laplace transformation, relating this to Lie's integration theorem and formal th…

Non-trivial conservation law found for a specific system.

In this paper we prove a version of Lie-Bäcklund theorem for overdetermined systems of scalar PDEs, whose general solution depends on 1 function of 1 variable. This generalizes the case of involutive system of the second order on the plane treated by E.Cartan in 1910. Many examples are provided.

Study rigidity in Riemannian manifolds using Pohozoaev and P-function approaches.

Solves division problem for L. Hörmander's systems.

Study proves a sharp upper bound for the zero set area of a static manifold's potential.

This is an expanded version of a series of two lectures given at the IMA summer program "Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations". The main part of the article describes the Riemannian version of the prolongation procedure for certain overdetermined system obtained recently in joint work…

This is the second in a series of papers on natural modification of the normal tractor connection in a parabolic geometry, which naturally prolongs an underlying overdetermined system of invariant differential equations. We give a short review of the general procedure developed in [5] and then compute the prolongation …

We review classical results where the method of the moving planes has been used to prove symmetry properties for overdetermined PDE's boundary value problems (such as Serrin's overdetermined problem) and for rigidity problems in geometric analysis (like Alexandrov soap bubble Theorem), and we give an overview of some r…

Study solves overdetermined problems for rotationally invariant Poisson equations in model manifolds.

Paper constructs solutions for a class of overdetermined systems.

We study necessary conditions on the geometry and the topology of domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that support a positive solution to a classical overdetermined elliptic problem. The ideas and tools we use come from constant mean curvature surface theory. In particular, we obtain a partial answer to a question posed by H. Be…

The paper proves rigidity for capillary graphs with specific curvature properties.

For all $N \geq 9$, we find smooth entire epigraphs in $\R^N$, namely smooth domains of the form $Ω: = \{x\in \R^N\ / \ x_N > F (x_1,\ldots, x_{N-1})\}$, which are not half-spaces and in which a problem of the form $Δu + f(u) = 0$ in $Ω$ has a positive, bounded solution with 0 Dirichlet boundary data and constant Neum…

Study proves symmetry of bounded domains in Riemannian manifolds.

Proves mass-capacity inequalities for critical area-normalized capacitors, improving Schwarzschild metric uniqueness.

Solves a 60-year-old compatibility problem on manifolds with boundary.

Develops Hodge theory for boundary-value problems on general geometric structures.

In this paper we provide a new method for establishing the rotational symmetry of the solutions to a couple of very classical overdetermined problems arising in potential theory, in both the exterior and the interior punctured domain. Thanks to a conformal reformulation of the problems, we obtain Riemannian manifolds w…

Study on $p$-Laplace equation in convex cones, proving rigidity under specific conditions.

The paper proves stability of Wulff shapes using anisotropic curvature functionals.

New method constructs solution operators for PDEs with prescribed support properties.

This paper concerns rigidity results to Serrin's overdetermined problem in an epigraph $\{\begin{aligned} &Δu+ f(u)=0,\ \ \ {in}\ Ω=\{(x^\prime,x_n): x_n>\varphi (x^\prime)\},\\ &u>0,\ \ \ {in}\ Ω,\\ &u=0,\ \ \ {on}\ \partialΩ,\\ &|\nabla u|=const. {on} \partialΩ. \end{aligned}.$ We prove that up to isometry the ep…

The present paper is devoted to geometric optimization problems related to the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on bounded subdomains $Ω$ of a Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$. More precisely, we analyze locally extremal domains for the first nontrivial eigenvalue $μ_2(Ω)$ with respect …

Solves second-order PDEs using quotients and differential invariants.

These notes are based on my lectures at IMA summer program "Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations." Here I try to explain basic ideas of the ambient metric construction by studying the Szego kernel of the sphere.

Motivated by a sharp eigenvalue estimate for the Kohn Laplacian, we prove a theorem that characterizes the CR sphere in terms of the existence of a non-trivial complex-valued function satisfying a certain overdetermined system.

The aim of this work is to develop a systematic manner to close overdetermined systems arising from conformal Killing tensors (CKT). The research performs this action for 1-tensor and 2-tensors. This research makes it possible to develop a new general method for any rank of CKT. This method can also be applied to other…

In this paper we establish a connection between free boundary minimal surfaces in a ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and free boundary cones arising in a one-phase problem. We prove that a doubly connected minimal surface with free boundary in a ball is a catenoid.

In this paper we study the geometry and the topology of unbounded domains in the Hyperbolic Space $\mathbb{H} ^n$ supporting a bounded positive solution to an overdetermined elliptic problem. Under suitable conditions on the elliptic problem and the behaviour of the bounded solution at infinity, we are able to show tha…