Souam's conjecture on Schiffer domains in the 2-sphere

Let ΩS2\Omega\subset S^2 be a sufficiently regular Schiffer domain, meaning a smooth bounded domain for which the overdetermined Neumann problem (Nμ)(\textrm{N}_{\mu}) has a solution for some μ>0\mu>0. A geodesic disk is a disk bounded by a geodesic circle, and a round symmetric annulus is an annulus bounded by two concentric geodesic circles.

Souam's conjecture. If ΩS2\Omega\subset S^2 is a sufficiently regular Schiffer domain, then Ω\Omega is either a geodesic disk or a round symmetric annulus.

Souam's conjecture follows classification results for certain cases, including simply connected domains with μ=2\mu=2 and domains with μ\mu equal to the second Dirichlet eigenvalue. The paper's abstract states that this conjecture is disproved by constructing a related family of subdomains of S2S^2.

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Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, Ignace Aristide Minlend and Tobias Weth, “The Schiffer problem on the cylinder and on the 2-sphere”, arXiv:2303.17036 (2024).

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