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In this paper, we study almost minimizers for the parabolic thin obstacle (or Signorini) problem with zero obstacle. We establish their $H^{\sigma,\sigma/2}$-regularity for every $0<\sigma<1$, as well as $H^{\beta,\beta/2}$-regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan

Let G be a finite graph with the non-k-order property (essentially, a uniform finite bound on the size of an induced sub-half-graph). A major result of the paper applies model-theoretic arguments to obtain a stronger version of…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-20 M. Malliaris , S. Shelah

We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Scott N. Armstrong , Charles K. Smart

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 propose to extend ``invertibility'' to ``regularity'' for categories in general abstract algebraic manner. Higher regularity conditions and ``semicommutative'' diagrams are introduced. Distinction between commutative and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven Duplij , Wladyslaw Marcinek

In this work we investigate regularity properties of a large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with or without obstacles, which can be stochastically interpreted in form of a stochastic control system which nonlinear cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Rainer Buckdahn , Jianhui Huang , Juan Li

We study free boundary problems for incompressible inhomogeneous flows governed by the Navier--Stokes equations, focusing on the regularity and global-in-time well-posedness of solutions in critical functional frameworks for small initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Piotr B. Mucha , Tomasz Piasecki , Yoshihiro Shibata

We derive a priori estimates for the compressible free boundary Euler equations in the case of a liquid without surface tension. We provide a new weighted functional framework which leads to the improved regularity of the flow map by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Linfeng Li

We establish some higher differentiability results for solution to non-autonomous obstacle problems of the form \begin{equation*} \min \left\{\int_{\Omega}f\left(x, Dv(x)\right)dx\,:\, v\in \mathcal{K}_\psi(\Omega)\right\}, \end{equation*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Andrea Gentile , Raffaella Giova

A non-conventional shape optimization approach is introduced to address the identification of an obstacle immersed in a fluid described by the Stokes equation within a larger bounded domain, relying on boundary measurements on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago , Lekbir Afraites , Hirofumi Notsu

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^1$ near regular points.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

The present paper contains some investigations about a uniform variant of the notion of metric hemiregularity, the latter being a less explored property obtained by weakening metric regularity. The introduction of such a quantitative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Amos Uderzo

In this work, we establish regularity results for minimizers of the energy functional associated with the thin obstacle problem in Orlicz spaces. More precisely, we prove the Lipschitz continuity and the H\"older continuity of the gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Junior da Silva Bessa , Paulo Henryque da Costa Silva , Alan Pio Sousa

We study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator in nondivergence form with principal coefficients in VMO. We develop all of the basic theory of existence, uniqueness, optimal regularity, and nondegeneracy of the solutions. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Ivan Blank , Kubrom Teka

We revisit and sharpen the results from our previous work, where we investigated the regularity of the singular set of the free boundary in the nonlinear obstacle problem. As in the work of Figalli-Serra on the classical obstacle problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

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 introduce \textit{basic inequalities} for first-order iterative optimization algorithms, forming a simple and versatile framework that connects implicit and explicit regularization. While related inequalities appear in the literature, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Seunghoon Paik , Kangjie Zhou , Matus Telgarsky , Ryan J. Tibshirani

In this article, we examine the H\"older regularity of solutions to equations involving a mixed local-nonlocal nonlinear nonhomogeneous operator $\fp + \fqs$ with singular data, under the minimal assumption that $p> sq$. The regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 R. Dhanya , Jacques Giacomoni , Ritabrata Jana

We prove the -- to the best knowledge of the authors -- first result on the fine asymptotic behavior of the regular part of the free boundary of the obstacle problem close to singularities. The result is motivated by our recent partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Simon Eberle , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg Sebastian Weiss