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Tangential contact of free boundaries and the fixed boundary for variational solutions to a free transmission Problem

Analysis of PDEs 2022-04-13 v1

Abstract

In this article we study functionals of the following type Ω(A(x,u)u,u+Λ(x,u))dx \int_{\Omega} \Big ( \langle A(x,u)\nabla u, \nabla u\rangle + \Lambda (x,u) \Big )\,dx here A(x,u)=A+(x)χ{u>0}+A(x)χ{u0}A(x,u)= A_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}+A_-(x) \chi _{\{u\leq 0\}} for some elliptic and bounded matrices A±A_{\pm} with H\"older continuous entries and Λ(x,u)=λ+(x)χ{u>0}+λ(x)χ{u0}\Lambda(x,u) = \lambda_+(x) \chi_{\{u>0\}} + \lambda_-(x) \chi_{\{u\le 0\}}. We prove that the free boundaries of minimizers of the above functional touches the fixed boundary Ω\partial \Omega in a tangential fashion, provide the graph of boundary data touches its zeros smoothly. This assumption is reflected in the \eqref{DPT} condition.

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@article{arxiv.2204.05569,
  title  = {Tangential contact of free boundaries and the fixed boundary for variational solutions to a free transmission Problem},
  author = {Diego Moreira and Harish Shrivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05569},
  year   = {2022}
}