The inverse mean value property for panharmonic functions

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Let DRmD \subset \mathbb{R}^m, with m2m \geqslant 2, be a bounded domain with sufficiently smooth boundary, and let r>0r>0 satisfy Br=D|B_r|=|D|. A function uu is panharmonic if it belongs to C1(D)C^1(\overline D) and satisfies the relevant panharmonic equation for some parameter μ>0\mu>0. Let nyn_y denote the exterior unit normal to D\partial D, and let aa^\bullet be the spherical-mean coefficient used for panharmonic functions. The inverse mean value conjecture. If there exists x0Dx_0\in D and some μ>0\mu>0 such that

2μma(μr)u(x0)=1DDunydSy\frac{2\mu}{m}a^\bullet(\mu r)u(x_0)=\frac{1}{|\partial D|}\int_{\partial D}\frac{\partial u}{\partial n_y}\,\mathrm{d}S_y

for every panharmonic uC1(D)u\in C^1(\overline D), then D=Br(x0)D=B_r(x_0). This is a flux formulation of an inverse mean value property: the theorem cited in the surrounding discussion is known for the corresponding volume integral, while the boundary-flux version is proposed as a suggested characterization under sufficient boundary regularity; its resolution is not established in the supplied text.

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Nikolay Kuznetsov, “Inverse mean value properties (a survey)”, arXiv:2203.10601 (2022).

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