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Cavity problems in discontinuous media

Analysis of PDEs 2015-12-08 v1

Abstract

We study cavitation type equations, div(aij(X)u)δ0(u)\text{div}(a_{ij}(X) \nabla u) \sim \delta_0(u), for bounded, measurable elliptic media aij(X)a_{ij}(X). De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory assures that solutions are α\alpha-H\"older continuous within its set of positivity, {u>0}\{u>0\}, for some exponent α\alpha strictly less than one. Notwithstanding, the key, main result proven in this paper provides a sharp Lipschitz regularity estimate for such solutions along their free boundaries, {u>0}\partial \{u>0 \}. Such a sharp estimate implies geometric-measure constrains for the free boundary. In particular, we show that the non-coincidence {u>0}\{u>0\} set has uniform positive density and that the free boundary has finite (nς)(n- \varsigma )-Hausdorff measure, for a universal number 0<ς10< \varsigma \le 1.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02002,
  title  = {Cavity problems in discontinuous media},
  author = {Disson dos Prazeres and Eduardo V. Teixeira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02002},
  year   = {2015}
}
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