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We study for the first time a two-phase free boundary problem in which the solution satisfies a Robin boundary condition. We consider the case in which the solution is continuous across the free boundary and we prove an existence and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Serena Guarino Lo Bianco , Domenico Angelo La Manna , Bozhidar Velichkov

We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for a general class of two-phase free boundary problems with non-zero right hand side. We prove that Lipschitz or flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\gamma}$. In particular, viscosity solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

We study boundary criticality at the Nishimori multicritical point of the two-dimensional (2D) random-bond Ising model. Using tensor-network methods, we construct a family of microscopic boundary conditions that incorporates both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sheng Yang , Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian

We continue the analysis of the two-phase free boundary problems initiated in \cite{DK}, where we studied the linear growth of minimizers in a Bernoulli type free boundary problem at the non-flat points and the related regularity of free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Serena Dipierro , Aram Karakhanyan

We discuss variational problems on two-dimensional domains with energy densities of linear growth and with radially symmetric data. The smoothness of generalized minimizers is established under rather weak ellipticity assumptions. Further…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Michael Bildhauer , Martin Fuchs

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

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

This paper concerns the existence of critical points for solutions to second order elliptic equations of the form $\nabla\cdot \sigma(x)\nabla u=0$ posed on a bounded domain $X$ with prescribed boundary conditions. In spatial dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Giovanni S. Alberti , Guillaume Bal , Michele Di Cristo

We introduce the nonlocal analogue of the classical free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in an open domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the (boundaries of) critical points of the fractional perimeter $\operatorname{Per}_s(\cdot,\,\Omega )$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Marco Badran , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Computing mountain passes is a standard way of finding critical points. We describe a numerical method for finding critical points that is convergent in the nonsmooth case and locally superlinearly convergent in the smooth finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Adrian S. Lewis , C. H. Jeffrey Pang

Cavity flow problems in two dimensions, as well as in the axially symmetric three-dimensional case, have been extensively studied in the literature from a qualitative perspective. While numerous results exist concerning minimizers or stable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Masoud Bayrami , Morteza Fotouhi , Parisa Vosooqnejad

This paper studies the properties of solutions to a class of elliptic and parabolic problems involving the fractional Laplacian. By applying the mountain pass theorem, we prove the existence of bounded classical positive solutions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Haipeng Lu , Mei Yu

In the paper we consider a boundary value problem involving a differential equation with the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ for $\alpha \in\left( 1,2\right) $ and some superlinear and subcritical nonlinearity $G_{z}$ provided…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Dorota Bors

We prove global Lipschitz regularity for a wide class of convex variational integrals among all functions in $W^{1,1}$ with prescribed (sufficiently regular) boundary values, which are not assumed to satisfy any geometrical constraint (as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Miroslav Bulíček , Erika Maringová , Bianca Stroffolini , Anna Verde

In the contest of optimal control problems, regularity results for optima are known when addressing fiber-strictly convex Lagrangian. For infinite time horizons, or for settings with infinite dimensional dynamics, the equivalence between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Vincenzo Basco

In this paper, we study the regularity of the "regular" part of the free boundary for almost minimizers in the parabolic Signorini problem with zero thin obstacle. This work is a continuation of our earlier research on the regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan

We study the localization of sets with constant nonlocal mean curvature and prescribed small volume in a bounded open set with smooth boundary, proving that they are {\em sufficiently close} to critical points of a suitable non-local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Andrea Malchiodi , Matteo Novaga , Dayana Pagliardini

In this paper we study a mass-constrained free boundary problem modeling cell polarization, in the regime where the mass is small. In the generic case of a signal with nondegenerate maxima, we prove that the solution converges locally to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sebastián Flores Sepúlveda , Barbara Niethammer , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We present a variational framework for studying the existence of solutions of a class of elliptic free boundary problems on stratified Lie groups. Using the important monotonicity result in a Non-Euclidean setup, we prove that our solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Sabri Bensid

We study a variant of the Alt, Caffarelli, and Friedman free boundary problem with many phases and a slightly different volume term, which we originally designed to guess the localization of eigenfunctions of a Schr\"odinger operator in a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda