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[Regularity of interfaces for a Pucci type segregation problem

Analysis of PDEs 2018-03-12 v1

Abstract

We show the existence of a Lipschitz viscosity solution uu in Ω\Omega to a system of fully nonlinear equations involving Pucci-type operators. We study the regularity of the interface {u>0}\Om\partial \{ u> 0 \}\cap\Om and we show that the viscosity inequalities of the system imply, in the weak sense, the free boundary condition uν++=uνu^{+}_{\nu_{+}} = u^{-}_{\nu_{-}}, and hence uu is a solution to a two-phase free boundary problem. We show that we can apply the classical method of sup-convolutions developed by the first author in \cite{caffarelli_harnack_1987,caffarelli_harnack_1989}, and generalized by Wang \cite{wang_regularity_2000,wang_regularity_2002} and Feldman \cite{Fel} to fully nonlinear operators, to conclude that the regular points in {u>0}\Om\partial \{ u> 0 \}\cap\Om form an open set of class C1,αC^{1,\alpha}. A novelty in our problem is that we have different operators, \puccip\puccip and \puccin\puccin, on each side of the free boundary. In the particular case when these operators are the Pucci's extremal operators \ppuccip\ppuccip and \ppuccin\ppuccin, our results provide an alternative approach to obtain the stationary limit %proof of existence to the one obtained from of a segregation model of populations with nonlinear diffusion in \cite{quitalo_free_2013}.

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@article{arxiv.1803.03337,
  title  = {[Regularity of interfaces for a Pucci type segregation problem},
  author = {Luis Caffarelli and Stefania Patrizi and Veronica Quitalo and Monica Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03337},
  year   = {2018}
}
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