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Symmetry Theorems and Uniform Rectifiability

Boundary Value Problems20062007:030190

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/30190

©  J. L. Lewis and A. L. Vogel 2007

Received: 3 June 2006

Accepted: 21 September 2006

Published: 30 November 2006

Abstract

We study overdetermined boundary conditions for positive solutions to some elliptic partial differential equations of -Laplacian type in a bounded domain . We show that these conditions imply uniform rectifiability of and also that they yield the solution to certain symmetry problems.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
(2)
Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University

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