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We establish the optimal regularity of solutions to the Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian, $(-\Delta)^s u=h$ in $\Omega$, with the external condition $\mathcal N^s u=0$ in $\Omega^c$. For this, a key point is to establish a 1D…

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We prove that a Pfaffian system with coefficients in the critical space $L^2_\mathrm{loc}$ on a simply connected open subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$ has a non-trivial solution in $W^{1,2}_\mathrm{loc}$ if the coefficients are antisymmetric and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Florian Litzinger

Let $ 0\le f\in C^{0,1}(\mathbb R^n)$. Given a domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$, we prove that any stable solution to the equation $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in $\Omega$ satisfies a BMO interior regularity when $n=10$, and an Morrey…

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In this paper we establish optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity up to the boundary for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with double phase degeneracy law and oblique boundary conditions. The approach developed here…

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We study the regularity and comparison principle for a gradient degenerate Neumann problem. The problem is a generalization of the Signorini or thin obstacle problem which appears in the study of certain singular anisotropic free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 William Feldman , Zhonggan Huang

We show that for an $L^2$ drift $b$ in two dimensions, if the Hardy norm of $\text{div }b$ is small, then the weak solutions to $\Delta u+b\cdot\nabla u=0$ have the same optimal H\"older regularity as in the case of divergence-free drift,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Nam Q. Le

We consider parabolic systems in divergence form with piecewise $C^{(s+\delta)/2,s+\delta}$ coefficients and data in a bounded domain consisting of a finite number of cylindrical subdomains with interfacial boundaries in $C^{s+1+\mu}$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Hongjie Dong , Longjuan Xu

We study the regularity of the interface for optimal energy configurations of functionals involving bulk energies with an additional perimeter penalization of the interface. It is allowed the dependence on $(x,u)$ for the bulk energy. For a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Luca Esposito , Lorenzo Lamberti

In this paper we study the regularity of the optimal sets for the shape optimization problem \[ \min\Big\{\lambda_1(\Omega)+\dots+\lambda_k(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d,\ \text{open}\ ,\ |\Omega|=1\Big\}, \] where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Dario Mazzoleni , Susanna Terracini , Bozhidar Velichkov

We prove the optimal global regularity of nonnegative solutions to the porous medium equation in smooth bounded domains with the zero Dirichlet boundary condition after certain waiting time $T^*$. More precisely, we show that solutions are…

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In this paper, we investigate the robustness to external disturbances of switched discrete and continuous systems with multiple equilibria. It is shown that if each subsystem of the switched system is Input-to-State Stable (ISS), then under…

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We prove that optimal traffic plans for the mailing problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ are stable with respect to variations of the given coupling, above the critical exponent $\alpha=1-1/d$, thus solving an open problem stated in the book "Optimal…

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In this paper, we establish a $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity theorem for almost-minimizers of the functional $\mathcal{F}_{\varepsilon,\gamma}=P-\gamma P_{\varepsilon}$, where $\gamma\in(0,1)$ and $P_{\varepsilon}$ is a nonlocal energy…

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This article is concerned with ``up to $C^{2, \alpha}$-regularity results'' about a mixed local-nonlocal nonlinear elliptic equation which is driven by the superposition of Laplacian and fractional Laplacian operators. First of all, an…

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We investigate the stability of equilibrium-induced optimal values with respect to (w.r.t.) reward functions $f$ and transition kernels $Q$ for time-inconsistent stopping problems under nonexponential discounting in discrete time. First,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang , Zhou Zhou

We prove optimal regularity for the double obstacle problem when obstacles are given by solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are not $C^2$. When the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is not $C^2$ then the standard Bernstein technique fails…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 John Andersson , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg S. Weiss

Though switched dynamical systems have shown great utility in modeling a variety of physical phenomena, the construction of an optimal control of such systems has proven difficult since it demands some type of optimal mode scheduling. In…

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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

This paper investigates the regularity of stable radial solutions to semilinear elliptic equations arising in MEMS problems, modeled by the Dirichlet problem $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in the unit ball $B_1$, where the nonlinearity $f\in C^1([0,1))$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Fa Peng , Salvador Villegas

Motived by the heat flow and bubble analysis of biharmonic mappings, we study further regularity issues of the fourth order Lamm-Riviere system $$\Delta^{2}u=\Delta(V\cdot\nabla u)+{\rm div}(w\nabla u)+(\nabla\omega+F)\cdot\nabla u+f$$ in…

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