A symmetry result for elliptic systems in punctured domains

We consider an elliptic system of equations in a punctured bounded domain. We prove that if the domain is convex in one direction and symmetric with respect to the reflections induced by the normal hyperplane to such a direction, then the solution is necessarily symmetric under this reflection and monotone in the corresponding direction. As a consequence, we prove symme- try results also for a related polyharmonic problem of any order with Navier boundary conditions.