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In this article we study for the first time the regularity of the free boundary in the one-phase free boundary problem driven by a general nonlocal operator. Our main results establish that the free boundary is $C^{1,\alpha}$ near regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

We study a general class of elliptic free boundary problems equipped with a Dirichlet boundary condition. Our primary result establishes an optimal $C^{1,1}$-regularity estimate for $L^p$-strong solutions at points where the free and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Damião J. Araújo , Andreas Minne , Edgard A. Pimentel

For a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian, we prove that "flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We recover the regularity results of Caffarelli for viscosity solutions of the classical Bernoulli-type free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Daniela De Silva , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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

We continue our study of the free boundary regularity in the thin one-phase problem and show that $C^{2,\alpha}$ free boundaries are smooth.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

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

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem involving fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$. D. De Silva, O. Savin, and Y. Sire proved that the flat boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We raise the regularity to $C^{\infty}$, extending…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Runcao Lyu

We provide a rather complete description of the sharp regularity theory for a family of heterogeneous, two-phase variational free boundary problems, $\mathcal{J}_\gamma \to $ min, ruled by nonlinear, $p$-degenerate elliptic operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Raimundo Leitão , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We study the higher regularity of solutions and free boundaries in the Alt-Phillips problem $\Delta u=u^{\gamma-1}$, with $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Our main results imply that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Daniel Restrepo , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper we classify the nonnegative global minimizers of the functional \[ J_F(u)=\int_\Omega F(|\nabla u|^2)+\lambda^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}, \] where $F$ satisfies some structural conditions and $\chi_D$ is the characteristic function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Aram Karakhanyan

This paper deals with regularity theory for two-phase free boundary variational problems ruled by degenerate elliptic operators.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We investigate general semilinear (obstacle-like) problems of the form $\Delta u = f(u)$, where $f(u)$ has a singularity/jump at $\{u=0\}$ giving rise to a free boundary. Unlike many works on such equations where $f$ is approximately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Mark Allen , Dennis Kriventsov , Henrik Shahgholian

We study fully nonlinear singularly perturbed parabolic equations and their limits. We show that solutions are uniformly Lipschitz continuous in space and H\"{o}lder continuous in time. For the limiting free boundary problem, we analyse the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Gleydson C. Ricarte , Rafayel Teymurazyan , José Miguel Urbano

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

We consider viscosity solution to one-phase free boundary problems for general fully nonlinear operators and free boundary condition depending on the normal vector. We show existence of viscosity solutions via the Perron's method and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Matteo Carducci , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper, we prove several regularity results for the heterogeneous, two-phase free boundary problems $\mathcal {J}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\big(f(x,\nabla u)+\lambda_{+}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Jun Zheng

We examine a free transmission problem driven by fully nonlinear elliptic operators. Since the transmission interface is determined endogeneously, our analysis is two-fold: we study the regularity of the solutions and some geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Edgard A. Pimentel , Makson S. Santos

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 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

We consider the Bernoulli one-phase free boundary problem in a domain $\Omega$ and show that the free boundary $F$ is $C^{1,1/2}$ regular in a neighborhood of the fixed boundary $\partial \Omega$. We achieve this by relating the behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Hector Chang-Lara , Ovidiu Savin