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In a wide class of the so called Obstacle Problems of parabolic type it is shown how to improve the optimal regularity of the solution and as a consequence how to obtain space-time regularity of the corresponding free boundary.
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For a linear, strictly elliptic second order differential operator in divergence form with bounded, measurable coefficients on a Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ we show that solutions of the corresponding elliptic problem with Robin and thus in…
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We introduce and study a new class of higher order differential operators defined on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, which are built with H\"{o}rmander vector fields, homogeneous w.r.t. a family of dilations (but not left invariant w.r.t. any structure…
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