Special Session 84: Regularity results of solutions of problems having nonstandard growth and nonuniform ellipticity

A rigidity result for Kolmogorov-type operators

Alessia Kogoj
University of Urbino
Italy
Co-Author(s):    E.Lanconelli
Abstract:
Let $D$ be a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$ and let $z_0$ be a point of $D$. Assume that the Newtonian potential of $D$ is proportional outside $D$ to the potential of a mass concentrated at $z_0$. Then $D$ is a Euclidean ball centred at $z_0$. This theorem, proved by Aharonov, Shiffer and Zalcman in 1981, was extended to the caloric setting by Suzuki and Watson in 2001. In this talk we extend the Suzuki--Watson Theorem to a class of hypoellliptic operators of Kolmogorov-type.