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We study the regularity of minimizers of a multiphase vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem. This problem consists in a minimization problem for the Bernoulli functional over families of Sobolev functions with disjoint supports and non…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Giovanni Siclari , Bozhidar Velichkov

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 start the investigation of free boundary variational models featuring varying singularities. The theory depends strongly on the nature of the singular power $\gamma(x)$ and how it changes. Under a mild continuity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Damião Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

The simplest genuinely multidimensional monopolist's problem involves minimizing a linearly perturbed Dirichlet energy among nonnegative convex functions $u$ on an open domain $X \subset [0, \infty)^2$. The geometry of the region of strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Robert J. McCann , Lucas D. O'Brien , Cale Rankin

In the unit ball B(0,1), let $u$ and $\Omega$ (a domain in $\R$) solve the following overdetermined problem: $$\Delta u =\chi_\Omega\quad \hbox{in} B(0,1), \qquad 0 \in \partial \Omega, \qquad u=|\nabla u |=0 \quad \hbox{in} B(0,1)\setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis A. Caffarelli , Lavi Karp , Henrik Shahgholian

Let $E \subset \Omega$ be a local almost-minimizer of the relative perimeter in the open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$. We prove a free-boundary monotonicity inequality for $E$ at a point $x\in \partial\Omega$, under a geometric…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Gian Paolo Leonardi , Giacomo Vianello

We study the regularity of minimizers of a two-phase free boundary problem. For a class of n-dimensional convex domains, we establish the Lipschitz continuity of the minimizer up to the fixed boundary under Neumann boundary conditions. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Thomas Beck , David Jerison , Sarah Raynor

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 study the regularity of minimizers to the composite membrane problem in the plane (ie given a domain omega and a positive number A, smaller than the measure of omega, minimize the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Schrodinger operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Sagun Chanillo , Carlos E. Kenig , Tung TO

We consider the minimization property of a Gagliardo-Slobodeckij seminorm which can be seen as the fractional counterpart of the classical problem of functions of least gradient and which is related to the minimization of the nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Claudia Bucur , Serena Dipierro , Luca Lombardini , Enrico Valdinoci

This paper is concerned with the study of the behavior of the free boundary for a class of solutions to a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with mixed periodic-Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown that if the free boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Giovanni Gravina , Giovanni Leoni

We study the Dirichlet problem for a graph $\Sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normalized constant mean curvature $H>0$ and planar boundary $\Gamma=\partial \Omega$. Our main result is that the optimal solvability condition, namely that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Joel Spruck , Liming Sun

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For $\epsilon>0$ small, we construct non-constant solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations $-\Delta u=\frac{1}{\epsilon^2}(1-|u|^2)u$ in $\Omega$ such that on $\partial \Omega$ u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Rémy Rodiac

In this paper we study existence and nonexistence of solutions for a Dirichlet boundary value problem whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\sum_{m=1}^{\infty} a_m \Delta u^m= f&\text{in}\ \Omega \newline u=0 & \text{on}\ \partial\Omega\,,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Francesco Petitta

Given an unbounded domain $\Omega$ of a Hadamard manifold $M$, it makes sense to consider the problem of finding minimal graphs with prescribed continuous data on its cone-topology-boundary, i.e., on its ordinary boundary together with its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Miriam Telichevesky

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

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

For any $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ smooth and bounded domain, we prove uniqueness of positive solutions of free boundary problems arising in plasma physics on $\Omega$ in a neat interval depending only by the best constant of the Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Daniele Bartolucci , Aleks Jevnikar

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Tianling Jin , Xavier Ros-Oton , Jingang Xiong

In this article we consider the Dirichlet problem on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset {\bf R}^d$ with respect to a second-order elliptic differential operator in divergence form. We do not assume a divergence condition as in the pioneering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 W. Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst , M. Sauter