A contractible Schiffer counterexample on the half-sphere

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Main Authors: Cao-Labora, Gonzalo, Fernández, Antonio J.
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Published: 2025
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author Cao-Labora, Gonzalo
Fernández, Antonio J.
author_facet Cao-Labora, Gonzalo
Fernández, Antonio J.
contents We show the existence of a family of nontrivial smooth contractible domains on the sphere that admit Neumann eigenfunctions of the Laplacian which are constant on the boundary. These domains are contained on the half-sphere, in stark contrast with the rigidity literature for Serrin-type problems. The proof relies on a local bifurcation argument around the family of geodesic disks centered at the north pole. We combine the use of anisotropic Hölder spaces for the functional setting with computer-assisted techniques to check the bifurcation conditions.
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spellingShingle A contractible Schiffer counterexample on the half-sphere
Cao-Labora, Gonzalo
Fernández, Antonio J.
Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
We show the existence of a family of nontrivial smooth contractible domains on the sphere that admit Neumann eigenfunctions of the Laplacian which are constant on the boundary. These domains are contained on the half-sphere, in stark contrast with the rigidity literature for Serrin-type problems. The proof relies on a local bifurcation argument around the family of geodesic disks centered at the north pole. We combine the use of anisotropic Hölder spaces for the functional setting with computer-assisted techniques to check the bifurcation conditions.
title A contractible Schiffer counterexample on the half-sphere
topic Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05732