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This paper concerns the regularity and geometry of the free boundary in the optimal partial transport problem for general cost functions. More specifically, we prove that a $C^1$ cost implies a locally Lipschitz free boundary. As an…

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We prove boundary regularity and a compactness result for parabolic nonlocal equations of the form $u_t-Iu=f$, where the operator $I$ is not necessarily translation invariant. As a consequence of this and the regularity results for…

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In this paper, we study the fully fractional heat equation involving the master operator: $$ (\partial_t -\Delta)^{s} u(x,t) = f(x,t)\ \ \mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{R} , $$ where $s\in(0,1)$ and $f(x,t) \geq 0$. First we derive…

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