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We study a shape optimization problem associated with the first eigenvalue of a nonlinear spectral problem involving a mixed operator ($p-$Laplacian and Laplacian) with a constraint on the volume. First, we prove the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Rocard Michel Gouton , Aboubacar Marcos , Diaraf Seck

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

In this paper we study nonnegative minimizers of general degenerate elliptic functionals, $\int F(X,u,Du) dX \to \min$, for variational kernels $F$ that are discontinuous in $u$ with discontinuity of order $\sim \chi_{\{u > 0 \}}$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-14 Raimundo Leitão , Eduardo V. Teixeira

In this paper we study the local regularity of almost minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x) \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in L^\infty(\Omega)$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Guy David , Tatiana Toro

We establish an epsilon-regularity theorem at points in the free boundary of almost-minimizers of the energy $\mathrm{Per}_{w}(E)=\int_{\partial^*E}w\,\mathrm{d} {\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}$, where $w$ is a weight asymptotic to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Carlo Gasparetto , Filippo Paiano , Bozhidar Velichkov

Given~$s,\sigma\in(0,1)$ and a bounded domain~$\Omega\subset\R^n$, we consider the following minimization problem of $s$-Dirichlet plus $\sigma$-perimeter type $$ [u]_{ H^s(\R^{2n}\setminus(\Omega^c)^2) } +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Serena Dipierro , Ovidiu Savin , Enrico Valdinoci

In this article we establish $C^{3,\alpha}$-regularity of the reduced boundary of stationary points of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. In particular, stationary points satisfy the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Dorian Goldman , Alexander Volkmann

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

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 prove new boundary regularity results for minimizers to the one-phase Alt-Caffarelli functional (also known as Bernoulli free boundary problem) in the case of continuous and H\"older-continuous boundary data. As an application, we use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xavier Fernández-Real , Florian Gruen

We study a generalization of the manifold-valued Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model, which involves an initial datum $f$ mapping from a curved compact surface with smooth boundary to a complete, connected and smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Salvador Moll , Vicent Pallardó-Julià

We prove local Lipschitz regularity for local minimiser of \[ W^{1,1}(\Omega)\ni v\mapsto \int_\Omega F(Dv)\, dx \] where $\Omega\subseteq {\mathbb R}^N$, $N\ge 2$ and $F:{\mathbb R}^N\to {\mathbb R}$ is a quasiuniformly convex integrand in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Greta Marino , Sunra Mosconi

We establish the existence and find some qualitative properties of open sets that minimize functionals of the form $ F(\lambda_1(\Omega;\beta),\dots,\lambda_k(\Omega;\beta))$ under measure constraint on $\Omega$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Mickaël Nahon

We establish local higher integrability and differentiability results for minimizers of variational integrals $$ \mathfrak{F}(v,\Omega) = \int_{\Omega} /! F(Dv(x)) \, dx $$ over $W^{1,p}$--Sobolev mappings $u \colon \Omega \subset {\mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Menita Carozza , Jan Kristensen , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We study a rather broad class of optimal partition problems with respect to monotone and coercive functional costs that involve the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the partitions. We show a sharp regularity result for the entire set of minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Hugo Tavares , Alessandro Zilio

We study a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with weight function admitting a discontinuity along a smooth jump interface. In any dimension $N\ge 2$, we show the $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary outside of a singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

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 will show optimal regularity for minimizers of the Signorini problem for the Lame system. In particular if $\u=(u^1,u^2,u^3)\in W^{1,2}(B_1^+:\R^3)$ minimizes $$ J(\u)=\int_{B_1^+}|\nabla \u+\nabla^\bot \u|^2+\lambda\div(\u)^2 $$ in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-10 John Andersson

We prove a regularity theorem for the free boundary of minimizers of the two-phase Bernoulli problem, completing the analysis started by Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman in the 80s. As a consequence, we also show regularity of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Guido De Philippis , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study the regularity of minimizers to the functional \[ J(w)=\int_{\Omega} a^{ij}w_iw_j + Q\chi_{\{w>0\}}, \] over a bounded domain $\Omega$ and among the class of nonnegative functions in $W^{1,2}(\Omega)$ with prescribed boundary data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Mark Allen