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Title Characterization of ellipsoids through an overdetermined boundary value problem of Monge-Amp\'ere type

Name Cristina Trombetti
Country Italy
Email cristina@unina.it
Co-Author(s) B. Brandolini - N. Gavitone - C. Nitsch
Submit Time 2014-02-21 09:07:47
Session
Special Session 76: Viscosity, nonlinearity and maximum principle
Contents
The study of the optimal constant in an Hessian-type Sobolev inequality leads to a fully nonlinear boundary value problem, overdetermined with non standard boundary conditions. We show that all the solutions have ellipsoidal symmetry. In the proof we use the maximum principle applied to a suitable auxiliary function in conjunction with an entropy estimate from affine curvature flow.