On Payne-Schaefer's Conjecture about an Overdetermined Boundary Problem of Sixth Order

Abstract

This paper considers overdetermined boundary problems. Firstly, we give a proof to the Payne-Schaefer conjecture about an overdetermined problem of sixth order in the two dimensional case and under an additional condition for the case of dimension no less than three. Secondly, we prove an integral identity for an overdetermined problem of fourth order which can be used to deduce Bennett's symmetry theorem. Finally, we prove a symmetry result for an overdetermined problem of second order by integral identities.