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In this paper, we study the regularity of the "regular" part of the free boundary for almost minimizers in the parabolic Signorini problem with zero thin obstacle. This work is a continuation of our earlier research on the regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan

We prove some regularity results for a priori bounded local minimizers of non-autonomous integral functionals of the form $$\mathcal{F}(v,\Omega)=\int_\Omega F(x,Dv)dx,$$ under the constraint $v \ge \psi$ a.e. in $\Omega$, where $\psi$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Raffaella Giova , Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi , Andrea Torricelli

We prove the higher differentiability of integer order of locally bounded minimizers of integral functionals of the form \begin{equation*} \mathcal{F}(u,\Omega):= \,\sum_{i=1}^{n} \dfrac{1}{p_i}\displaystyle \int_\Omega \, a_i(x) \lvert…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi , Stefania Russo

We prove that minimizers and almost minimizers of one-phase free boundary energy functionals in periodic media satisfy large scale (1) Lipschitz estimates (2) free boundary flat implies Lipschitz estimates. The proofs are based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 William M Feldman

We study optimal regularity and free boundary for minimizers of an energy functional arising in cohesive zone models for fracture mechanics. Under smoothness assumptions on the boundary conditions and on the fracture energy density, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Luis Caffarelli , Filippo Cagnetti , Alessio Figalli

We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}G(|\nabla u|) dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,G}(\Omega)$, with a constrain on the volume of $\{u>0\}$. The conditions on the function $G$ allow for a different behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Sandra Martinez

We consider the problem of minimizing the Lagrangian $\int [F(\nabla u)+f\,u]$ among functions on $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with given boundary datum $\varphi$. We prove Lipschitz regularity up to the boundary for solutions of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Pierre Bousquet , Lorenzo Brasco

We prove local boundedness of local minimizers of scalar integral functionals $\int_\Omega f(x,\nabla u(x))\,dx$, $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ where the integrand satisfies $(p,q)$-growth of the form \begin{equation*} |z|^p\lesssim…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jonas Hirsch , Mathias Schäffner

Given a Lipschitz domain $\Omega $ in ${\mathbb R} ^N $ and a nonnegative potential $V$ in $\Omega $ such that $V(x)\, d(x,\partial \Omega)^2$ is bounded in $\Omega $ we study the fine regularity of boundary points with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Ancona Alano

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem $$ \mathrm{min}\left\{\lambda_1^s(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_m^s(\Omega) + \Lambda \mathcal{L}_n(\Omega)\colon \Omega\subset D \mbox{ s-quasi-open}\right\} $$ where $\Lambda>0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Giorgio Tortone

Let $N>2$, $p\in \left(\frac{2N}{N+2},+\infty\right)$, and $\Omega$ be an open bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We consider the minimum problem $$ \mathcal{J} (u) := \displaystyle\int_{\Omega } \left(\frac{1}{p}| \nabla u|…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Yuwei Hu , Jun Zheng , Leandro S. Tavares

We apply new results on free boundary regularity of one-phase almost minimizers in periodic media to obtain a quantitative convergence rate for the shape optimizers of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue in periodic homogenization. We obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 William M Feldman

In this paper, we study the regularity of the free boundary for minimizers of the Alt-Phillips functional with negative powers \[\mathcal{E}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\frac{1}{2}|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Lu Chen , Jiali Lan , Yong Wu

We revisit the question of regularity for minimizers of scalar autonomous integral functionals with so-called $(p,q)$-growth. In particular, we establish Lipschitz regularity under the condition $\frac{q}p<1+\frac{2}{n-1}$ for $n\geq3$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Peter Bella , Mathias Schäffner

We consider a minimization problem that combines the Dirichlet energy with the nonlocal perimeter of a level set, namely $$ \int_\Om |\nabla u(x)|^2\,dx+\Per\Big(\{u > 0\},\Om \Big),$$ with $\sigma\in(0,1)$. We obtain regularity results for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Luis Caffarelli , Ovidiu Savin , Enrico Valdinoci

We prove a Lipschitz approximation with superlinear error terms for integral currents $\omega$-minimizing the area functional, where $\omega$ is a modulus of continuity satisfying a Dini condition. We also present an almost monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Reinaldo Resende

In this article we study functionals of the type considered in \cite{HS21}, i.e. $$ J(v):=\int_{B_1} A(x,u)|\nabla u|^2 +f(x,u)u+ Q(x)\lambda (u)\,dx $$ here $A(x,u)= A_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}+A_-(x) \chi _{\{u<0\}}$, $f(x,u)=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Diego Moreira , Harish Shrivastava

We establish local $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity for some $\alpha\in(0,1)$ and $C^{\alpha}$-regularity for any $\alpha\in(0,1)$ of local minimizers of the functional \[ v\ \mapsto\ \int_\Omega \phi(x,|Dv|)\,dx, \] where $\phi$ satisfies a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Peter Hästö , Jihoon Ok

In this paper, we study superlinear systems that give rise to free boundaries. Such systems appear for example from the minimization of the energy functional $$ \int_{\Omega}\left(|\nabla\mathbf{u}|^2+\frac2p|\mathbf{u}|^p\right),\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daniela De Silva , Seongmin Jeon , Henrik Shahgholian

We study almost minimizers for the thin obstacle problem with variable H\"older continuous coefficients and zero thin obstacle and establish their $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity on the either side of the thin space. Under an additional assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia