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On the Dirichlet and Serrin problems for the inhomogeneous infinity Laplacian in convex domains: Regularity and geometric results

Given an open bounded subset $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is convex and satisfies an interior sphere condition, we consider the pde $-Δ_{\infty} u = 1$ in $Ω$, subject to the homogeneous boundary condition $u = 0$ on $\partial Ω$. We prove that the unique solution to this Dirichlet problem is power-concave (precisely, 3/4 concave) and it is of class $C ^1(Ω)$. We then investigate the overdetermined Serrin-type problem obtained by adding the extra boundary condition $|\nabla u| = a$ on $\partial Ω$; by using a suitable $P$-function we prove that, if $Ω$ satisfies the same assumptions as above and in addition contains a ball with touches $\partial Ω$ at two diametral points, then the existence of a solution to this Serrin-type problem implies that necessarily the cut locus and the high ridge of $Ω$ coincide. In turn, in dimension $n=2$, this entails that $Ω$ must be a stadium-like domain, and in particular it must be a ball in case its boundary is of class $C^2$.