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The free boundary for a semilinear non-homogeneous Bernoulli problem

Analysis of PDEs 2024-05-10 v2

Abstract

In the classical homogeneous one-phase Bernoulli-type problem, the free boundary consists of a "regular" part and a "singular" part, as Alt and Caffarelli have shown in their pioneer work (J. Reine Angew. Math., 325, 105-144, 1981) that regular points are C1,γC^{1,\gamma} in two-dimensions. Later, Weiss (J. Geom. Anal., 9, 317-326, 1999) first realized that in higher dimensions a critical dimension dd^{*} exists so that the singularities of the free boundary can only occur when ddd\geqslant d^{*}. In this paper, we consider a non-homogeneous semilinear one-phase Bernoulli-type problem, and we show that the free boundary is a disjoint union of a regular and a singular set. Moreover, the regular set is locally the graph of a C1,γC^{1,\gamma} function for some γ(0,1)\gamma\in(0,1). In addition, there exists a critical dimension dd^{*} so that the singular set is empty if d<dd<d^{*}, discrete if d=dd=d^{*} and of locally finite Hdd\mathcal{H}^{d-d^{*}} Hausdorff measure if d>dd>d^{*}. As a byproduct, we relate the existence of viscosity solutions of a non-homogeneous problem to the Weiss-boundary adjusted energy, which provides an alternative proof to existence of viscosity solutions for non-homogeneous problems.

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@article{arxiv.2311.00219,
  title  = {The free boundary for a semilinear non-homogeneous Bernoulli problem},
  author = {Lili Du and Chunlei Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00219},
  year   = {2024}
}

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