Special Session 65: Geometry of PDEs on Manifolds and Nilpotent Lie Groups

Rigidity results for spherical, as well as annular domains, in manifolds with pole
Antonio Greco
University of Cagliari
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Marcello Lucia (New York), Pieralberto Sicbaldi (Granada)
Abstract:
Overdetermined problems for the rotationally invariant Poisson equation $-\Delta u = f(r)$ in a Riemannian manifold with pole~$O$ have been recently investigated (arXiv:2602.18289) by Marcello Lucia (New York), Pieralberto Sicbaldi (Granada) and the speaker. We give conditions on~$f$ and on the boundary data implying that the solution~$u$ is radial and the domain of the problem is a geodesic ball centered at~$O$, or an annulus centered there. Our results hold, in particular, in the three space forms with constant curvature. Proofs are based on the comparison principle.