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We discuss the extent to which solutions to one-phase free boundary problems can be characterized according to their topological complexity. Our questions are motivated by fundamental work of Luis Caffarelli on free boundaries and by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-04 David S. Jerison , Nikola Kamburov

In this paper we study a one phase free boundary problem for the p(x)-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side. We prove that the free boundary of a weak solution is a C^1 surface in a neighborhood of every free boundary point. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Claudia Lederman , Noemi Wolanski

We prove the parabolic boundary Harnack inequality in parabolic flat Lipschitz domains by blow-up techniques, allowing for the first time a non-zero right-hand side. Our method allows us to treat solutions to equations driven by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Clara Torres-Latorre

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of viscosity solutions for two-phase free boundary problems for the $p$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side, where $p\in (1,\infty)$. This is the optimal regularity for the problem. We also obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

We study the regularity of the "free surface" in boundary obstacle problems. We show that near a non-degenerate point the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha}$ $(n-2)$-dimensional surface in $\real^{n-1}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Athanasopoulos , L. A. Caffarelli , S. Salsa

We study a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with weight function admitting a discontinuity along a smooth jump interface. In any dimension $N\ge 2$, we show the $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary outside of a singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

This paper studies the regularity of the free boundary for viscosity solutions to a parabolic Bernoulli-type free boundary problem with variable coefficients. The main result is that Lipschitz free boundaries are $C^1$ with a normal vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing

We study the higher regularity in nonlocal free boundary problems posed for general integro-differential operators of order $2s$. Our main result is for the nonlocal one-phase (Bernoulli) problem, for which we establish that $C^{2,\alpha}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Begoña Barrios , Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

In this paper we establish the $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity of the regular part of the free boundary in the Signorini problem for elliptic operators with variable Lipschitz coefficients. This work is a continuation of the recent paper [GSVG14],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

In this paper, we prove boundary pointwise $C^{k,\alpha}$ regularity for any $k\geq 1$ for fully nonlinear parabolic equations. As an application, we give a direct and short proof of the higher regularity of the free boundaries in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

We prove the $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary in the Signorini problem with variable coefficients. We use a $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundary Harnack inequality in slit domain. The key method is to study a non-standard degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chilin Zhang

We study a variant of the Alt, Caffarelli, and Friedman free boundary problem with many phases and a slightly different volume term, which we originally designed to guess the localization of eigenfunctions of a Schr\"odinger operator in a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan

This paper is a continuation of the work in \cite{kimzhang2024} concerning Hele-Shaw flow with both drift and source terms. We prove that, in a local neighborhood, if the free boundary is Lipschitz continuous with a sufficiently small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Yuming Paul Zhang

In this paper we prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result in dimension two for almost-minimizers of the constrained one-phase Alt-Caffarelli and the two-phase Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman functionals for an energy with variable coefficients. As…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Luca Spolaor , Baptiste Trey , Bozhidar Velichkov

The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump L\'evy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

We prove new boundary Harnack inequalities in Lipschitz domains for equations with a right hand side. Our main result applies to non-divergence form operators with bounded measurable coefficients and to divergence form operators with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

For a vectorial Bernoulli-type free boundary problem, with no sign assumption on the components, we prove that flatness of the free boundary implies $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity, as well-known in the scalar case \cite{AC,C2}. While in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Daniela De Silva , Giorgio Tortone

We prove optimal regularity and derive several geometric properties for solutions of a free boundary problem with fractional diffusion. Additionally, we deduce local $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for the corresponding interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Diego Marcon , Rafayel Teymurazyan