Some Steiner Symmetry Results in Overdetermined Boundary Value Problem

Zhongbo Fang, Anna Wang
DOI: 10.4236/apm.2011.16061                

Abstract

In this paper, we use the moving planes method to prove that the domain Ω and the solution u are Steiner symmetric if u is a positive solution of the overdetermined boundary value problem in Ω.

Keywords

Steiner Symmetry, Moving Planes Method, Overdetermined Boundary Value Problem

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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