RADIAL SYMMETRY FOR AN ELECTROSTATIC AND A CAPILLARITY PROBLEM

Authors
Citation
W. Reichel, RADIAL SYMMETRY FOR AN ELECTROSTATIC AND A CAPILLARITY PROBLEM, Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 77, 1997, pp. 653-654
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,"Mathematical Method, Physical Science",Mechanics,Mathematics
ISSN journal
00442267
Volume
77
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
2
Pages
653 - 654
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-2267(1997)77:<653:RSFAEA>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Two physically motivated characterizations of balls in R-N (N greater than or equal to 2) are given. They are shown to be special cases of a general radial-symmetry theorem for elliptic overdetermined boundary value problems on exterior domains.