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Contact of a thin free boundary with a fixed one in the Signorini problem

Analysis of PDEs 2014-09-16 v1

Abstract

We study the Signorini problem near a fixed boundary, where the solution is "clamped down" or "glued." We show that in general the solutions are at least C1/2C^{1/2} regular and that this regularity is sharp. We prove that near the actual points of contact of the free boundary with the fixed one the blowup solutions must have homogeneity κ3/2\kappa\geq 3/2, while at the non-contact points the homogeneity must take one of the values: 1/2,3/2,,m1/2,1/2, 3/2, \ldots, m-1/2, \ldots.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4114,
  title  = {Contact of a thin free boundary with a fixed one in the Signorini problem},
  author = {Norayr Matevosyan and Arshak Petrosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4114},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages, 2 figues