An anisotropic Serrin's problem in general domains
Abstract
Serrin's symmetry theorem shows that the classical overdetermined torsion problem forces the domain to be a ball. Extending this rigidity statement to merely Lipschitz (and more generally rough) domains in the weak formulation has been a long-standing and challenging problem, recently resolved by the authors in~FZ2025. In this paper we address the corresponding question in the anisotropic setting: Given a uniformly convex C2,γ anisotropy H, we study the overdetermined problem for the anisotropic Laplacian ΔH u= div(H(∇ u)\,DH(∇ u)) on a bounded indecomposable set of finite perimeter Ω. Assuming the Ahlfors--David regularity of ∂*Ω and a global β-number square-function bound (a weak uniform rectifiability hypothesis), we prove that a weak solution exists if and only if Ω is a translate and dilation of the reflected Wulff shape -K, in which case the solution is unique and explicit. In particular, the result applies to Lipschitz domains. While our approach follows the rough-domain strategy of~FZ2025 at a high level, the key Laplacian-specific ingredients exploited there have no direct analog for ΔH, necessitating the development of new ideas and techniques.
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