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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…
We prove a boundary Harnack principle in Lipschitz domains with small constant for fully nonlinear and $p$-Laplace type equations with a right hand side, as well as for the Laplace equation on nontangentially accessible domains under extra…
We prove Fatou type theorems for solutions of the heat equation in sub- Riemannian spaces. The doubling property of L-caloric measure, the Dahlberg estimate, the local comparison theorem, among other results, are established here. A…
We provide the classical Boundary Harnack principle in Lipschitz domains for solutions to two different linear uniformly elliptic equations with the same principal part.
We study the boundary behaviour of solutions to second order parabolic linear equations in moving domains. Our main result is a higher order boundary Harnack inequality in $C^1$ and $C^{k,\alpha}$ domains, providing that the quotient of two…
In a cylinder $\Omega_T=\Omega\times (0,T)\subset \R^{n+1}_+$ we study the boundary behavior of nonnegative solutions of second order parabolic equations of the form \[ Hu =\sum_{i,j=1}^ma_{ij}(x,t) X_iX_ju - \p_tu = 0, \…
We study a two-phase parabolic free boundary problem motivated by the jump of conductivity in composite materials that undergo a phase transition. Each phase is governed by a heat equation with distinct thermal conductivity, and a…
In this paper, we study the parabolic equations of the form $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} Lu(y,t) &=& f, \qquad &(y,t)\in Q,\\ u(y,t)&=& 0, \qquad &(y,t)\in \partial Q, \\ u(y,t)&& \hspace{-8mm}\mbox{is uniformly bounded from below},…
In this paper we study the boundary behavior of solutions of a divergence-form subelliptic heat equation in a time-varying domain \Omega in R^{n+1}, structured on a set of vector fields X = (X_1, ... X_m) with smooth coefficients satisfying…
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…
In a cylindrical space-time domain with a convex, spatial base, we establish a local Lipschitz estimate for weak solutions to parabolic systems with Uhlenbeck structure up to the lateral boundary, provided homogeneous Dirichlet data are…
We investigate the parabolic Boundary Harnack Principle for both divergence and non-divergence type operators by the analytical methods we developed in the elliptic context. Besides the classical case, we deal with less regular space-time…
For the Alt-Caffarelli problem, we study free boundary regularity of energy minimizers. In six dimensions, we show that free boundaries are analytic for generic boundary data. In general, we improve previous generic Hausdorff dimensions of…
We provide a new and simple proof based on Harnack's inequality to the Lipschitz continuity of the solutions of a class of free boundary problems.
In this paper we study the existence, the optimal regularity of solutions, and the regularity of the free boundary near the so-called \emph{regular points} in a thin obstacle problem that arises as the local extension of the obstacle…
We study solutions to a variational equation that models heat control on the boundary. This problem can be thought of as the two phase parabolic Signorini problem. We show that when the solution has a sign on the boundary, the study of the…
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…
We establish the boundary pointwise Lipschitz regularity on exterior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains and the Hopf lemma on interior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains for fully nonlinear parabolic equations by a unified perturbation method. In…
We study the regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ (and more general integro-differential operators) in the regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. We prove that once the free boundary…
In the context of a metric measure Dirichlet space satisfying volume doubling and Poincar\'e inequality, we prove the parabolic Harnack inequality for weak solutions of the heat equation associated with local nonsymmetric bilinear forms. In…