# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021004

## An overdetermined problem associated to the Finsler Laplacian

 1 Department of Mathematics "Federigo Enriques", Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy 2 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy

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Received  October 2020 Revised  November 2020 Published  January 2021

Fund Project: G. Ciraolo has been partially supported by the PRIN 2017 project "Qualitative and quantitative aspects of nonlinear PDEs" and by GNAMPA of INdAM. A. Greco has been partially supported by the research project Integro-differential Equations and Non-Local Problems, funded by Fondazione di Sardegna (2017)

We prove a rigidity result for the anisotropic Laplacian. More precisely, the domain of the problem is bounded by an unknown surface supporting a Dirichlet condition together with a Neumann-type condition which is not translation-invariant. Using a comparison argument, we show that the domain is in fact a Wulff shape. We also consider the more general case when the unknown surface is required to have its boundary on a given conical surface: in such a case, the domain of the problem is bounded by the unknown surface and by a portion of the given conical surface, which supports a homogeneous Neumann condition. We prove that the unknown surface lies on the boundary of a Wulff shape.

Citation: Giulio Ciraolo, Antonio Greco. An overdetermined problem associated to the Finsler Laplacian. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021004
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