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The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump L\'evy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

We develop the complete free boundary analysis for solutions to classical obstacle problems related to nondegenerate nonlinear variational energies. The key tools are optimal $C^{1,1}$ regularity, which we review more generally for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Matteo Focardi , Francesco Geraci , Emanuele Spadaro

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 study existence, uniqueness, and optimal regularity of solutions to transmission problems for harmonic functions with $C^{1,\alpha}$ interfaces. For this, we develop a novel geometric stability argument based on the mean value property.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-07 L. A. Caffarelli , M. Soria-Carro , P. R. Stinga

In this paper, we study the boundary pointwise regularity for the divergence form elliptic boundary problem on domains with rough boundaries, specifically uniform domains. In general, it is not straightforward to define weak solutions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tianyu Guan , Lihe Wang , Chunqin Zhou

This short note is the announcement of a forthcoming work in which we prove a first general boundary regularity result for area-minimizing currents in higher codimension, without any geometric assumption on the boundary, except that it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Camillo De Lellis , Guido De Philippis , Jonas Hirsch , Annalisa Massaccesi

We consider a flow by powers of Gauss curvature under the obstruction that the flow cannot penetrate a prescribed region, so called an obstacle. For all dimensions and positive powers, we prove the optimal curvature bounds of solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Ki-Ahm Lee , Taehun Lee

We study homogenization of a boundary obstacle problem on $ C^{1,\alpha} $ domain $D$ for some elliptic equations with uniformly elliptic coefficient matrices $\gamma$. For any $ \epsilon\in\mathbb{R}_+$, $\partial D=\Gamma \cup \Sigma$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Lan Tang , Jiangwen Wang

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 prove sharp boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations arising from operators comparable to the fractional Laplacian over Reifenberg flat sets and with null exterior condition. More precisely, if the operator has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adriano Prade

We study the regularity of the free boundary in one-phase Stefan problem with nonlinear operator. Using the Hodograph transform and a linearization technique, we prove that flat free boundaries are $C^{1, \alpha}$ in space and time. When…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Yamin Wang

For a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian, we prove that "flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We recover the regularity results of Caffarelli for viscosity solutions of the classical Bernoulli-type free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Daniela De Silva , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

This paper is devoted to a proof of optimal regularity, near the initial state, for weak solutions to the two-phase parabolic obstacle problem. The approach used here is general enough to allow us to consider the initial data belonging to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 D. E. Apushkinskaya , N. N. Uraltseva

We discuss the global regularity of solutions $f$ to the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs in the hyperbolic space when the boundary of the domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ has a nonnegative mean curvature and prove an optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Qing Han , Weiming Shen , Yue Wang

The focus of this paper is on a thin obstacle problem where the obstacle is defined on the intersection between a hyper-plane $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and a periodic perforation $\mathcal{T}_\varepsilon$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, depending on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Ki-ahm Lee , Martin Strömqvist , Minha Yoo

In this paper we are concerned with a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem of interest in thermics, fluid dynamics and electricity. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of the solutions, and we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Donatella Danielli , Rohit Jain

This paper aims to establish counterparts of fundamental regularity statements for solutions to elliptic equations in the setting of low-dimensional structures such as, for instance, glued manifolds or CW-complexes. The main result proves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Łukasz Chomienia , Michał Fabisiak

We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of $C^{1,\alpha}$ submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Leobardo Rosales

We prove global $W^{1,q}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^N)$-regularity for minimisers of $\mathscr{F}(u)=\int_\Omega F(x,\mathrm{D}u)\mathrm{d} x$ satisfying $u\geq \psi$ for a given Sobolev obstacle $\psi$. $W^{1,q}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^m)$ regularity is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Lukas Koch

This paper deals with the Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for a class of variational obstacle problems with possible occurance of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. In order to overcome this problem, the availment of the notions of relaxed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Giacomo Bertazzoni , Samuele Riccò