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Generic properties in free boundary problems

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-28 v1

Abstract

In this work, we show the generic uniqueness of minimizers for a large class of energies, including the Alt-Caffarelli and Alt-Phillips functionals. We then prove the generic regularity of free boundaries for minimizers of the one-phase Alt-Caffarelli and Alt-Phillips functionals, for a monotone family of boundary data {φt}t(1,1)\{\varphi_t\}_{t\in(-1,1)}. More precisely, we show that for a co-countable subset of {φt}t(1,1)\{\varphi_t\}_{t\in(-1,1)}, minimizers have smooth free boundaries in R5\mathbb{R}^5 for the Alt-Caffarelli and in R3\mathbb{R}^3 for the Alt-Phillips functional. In general dimensions, we show that the singular set is one dimension smaller than expected for almost every boundary datum in {φt}t(1,1)\{\varphi_t\}_{t\in(-1,1)}.

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@article{arxiv.2308.13209,
  title  = {Generic properties in free boundary problems},
  author = {Xavier Fernández-Real and Hui Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13209},
  year   = {2023}
}
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