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Two-phase free boundary problems in convex domains

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-22 v1

Abstract

We study the regularity of minimizers of a two-phase free boundary problem. For a class of n-dimensional convex domains, we establish the Lipschitz continuity of the minimizer up to the fixed boundary under Neumann boundary conditions. Our proof uses an almost monotonicity formula for the Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman functional restricted to the convex domain. This requires a variant of the classical Friedland-Hayman inequality for geodesically convex subsets of the sphere with Neumann boundary conditions. To apply this inequality, in addition to convexity, we require a Dini condition governing the rate at which the fixed boundary converges to its limit cone at each boundary point.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10175,
  title  = {Two-phase free boundary problems in convex domains},
  author = {Thomas Beck and David Jerison and Sarah Raynor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10175},
  year   = {2020}
}

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34 pages

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