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Non-existence of cusps for degenerate Alt-Caffarelli functionals

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-02 v1

Abstract

We eliminate the existence of cusps in a class of \textit{degenerate} free-boundary problems for the Alt-Caffarelli functional JQ(v,Ω):=Ωv2+Q2(x)χ{v>0}dx,J_{Q}(v, \Omega):= \int_{\Omega}|\nabla v|^2 + Q^2(x)\chi_{\{v>0\}}dx, so-called because Q(x)=dist(x,Γ)γQ(x) = \text{dist}(x, \Gamma)^{\gamma} for Γ\Gamma an affine kk-plane and 0<γ0< \gamma. This problem is inspired by a generalization of the variational formulation of the Stokes Wave by Arama and Leoni. The elimination of cusps implies that the results of [Mccurdy20] in fact describe the entire free-boundary as it intersects Γ\Gamma.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.00616,
  title  = {Non-existence of cusps for degenerate Alt-Caffarelli functionals},
  author = {Sean McCurdy and Lisa Naples},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00616},
  year   = {2022}
}
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