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Existence of solutions to a fully nonlinear free transmission problem

Analysis of PDEs 2021-11-05 v2

Abstract

We study an equation governed by a discontinuous fully nonlinear operator. Such discontinuities are solution-dependent, which introduces a free boundary. Working under natural assumptions, we prove the existence of LpL^p-viscosity and strong solutions to the problem. The operator does not satisfy the usual structure conditions and to obtain the existence of solutions we resort to solving approximate problems, combined with an iterative scheme. We believe our strategy can be applied to other classes of non-variational free boundary problems.

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@article{arxiv.2103.08974,
  title  = {Existence of solutions to a fully nonlinear free transmission problem},
  author = {Edgard A. Pimentel and Andrzej Święch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08974},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

The present version fixes a mistake in the proof of Theorem 1