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Regularity of the free boundary for the vectorial Bernoulli problem

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary for a vector-valued Bernoulli problem, with no sign assumptions on the boundary data. More precisely, given an open, smooth set of finite measure DRdD\subset \mathbb{R}^d, Λ>0\Lambda>0 and φiH1/2(D)\varphi_i\in H^{1/2}(\partial D), we deal with min{i=1kDvi2+Λi=1k{vi0}  :  vi=φi  \mboxonD}. \min{\left\{\sum_{i=1}^k\int_D|\nabla v_i|^2+\Lambda\Big|\bigcup_{i=1}^k\{v_i\not=0\}\Big|\;:\;v_i=\varphi_i\;\mbox{on }\partial D\right\}}. We prove that, for any optimal vector U=(u1,,uk)U=(u_1,\dots, u_k), the free boundary (i=1k{ui0})D\partial (\cup_{i=1}^k\{u_i\not=0\})\cap D is made of a regular part, which is relatively open and locally the graph of a CC^\infty function, a singular part, which is relatively closed and has Hausdorff dimension at most ddd-d^*, for a d{5,6,7}d^*\in\{5,6,7\} and by a set of branching (two-phase) points, which is relatively closed and of finite Hd1\mathcal{H}^{d-1} measure. Our arguments are based on the NTA structure of the regular part of the free boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1804.09243,
  title  = {Regularity of the free boundary for the vectorial Bernoulli problem},
  author = {Dario Mazzoleni and Susanna Terracini and Bozhidar Velichkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09243},
  year   = {2020}
}