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Graphical solutions to one-phase free boundary problems

Analysis of PDEs 2023-11-13 v2

Abstract

We study viscosity solutions to the classical one-phase problem and its thin counterpart. In low dimensions, we show that when the free boundary is the graph of a continuous function, the solution is the half-plane solution. This answers, in the salient dimensions, a one-phase free boundary analogue of Bernstein's problem for minimal surfaces. As an application, we also classify monotone solutions of semilinear equations with a bump-type nonlinearity.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08847,
  title  = {Graphical solutions to one-phase free boundary problems},
  author = {Max Engelstein and Xavier Fernández-Real and Hui Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08847},
  year   = {2023}
}
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