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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…

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We investigate the obstacle problem for a class of nonlinear equations driven by nonlocal, possibly degenerate, integro-differential operators, whose model is the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator with measurable coefficients. Amongst other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Janne Korvenpaa , Tuomo Kuusi , Giampiero Palatucci

In this article, we adapt the definition of viscosity solutions to the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs with data uniformly continuous in $(t,\omega)$, and generator Lipschitz continuous in $(y,z,\gamma)$. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Ibrahim Ekren

We study the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of weak solutions to a class of obstacle problems, where the obstacle condition can be imposed on a subset of the domain. In particular, we establish the optimal H\"older regularity for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Ki-Ahm Lee , Se-Chan Lee , Waldemar Schefer

We introduce variational problems on Riemannian manifolds with constrained acceleration and derive necessary conditions for normal extremals in the constrained variational problem. The problem consists on minimizing a higher-order energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Leonardo Colombo

We consider the Cauchy problem for incompressible viscoelastic fluids in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=2,3$). By introducing a new decomposition via Helmholtz's projections, we first provide an alternative proof on the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Xianpeng Hu , Hao Wu

In this paper,we consider the solutions of the non-homogeneous elliptic obstacle problems with Orlicz growth involving measure data. We first establish the pointwise estimates of the approximable solutions to these problems via fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Xiong Qi , Zhenqiu Zhang , Lingwei Ma

We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

We study the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators with an anisotropic degeneracy on the gradient: \[ \min \left\{f-|Du|^\gamma F(D^2u),u-\phi\right\} = 0 \quad\textrm{ in }\quad \Omega. \] We obtain existence of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 João Vitor Da Silva , Hernán Vivas

We determine the asymptotic behaviour of (bilateral) obstacle problems for fractional energies in rather general aperiodic settings via Gamma-convergence arguments. As further developments we consider obstacles with random sizes and shapes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Matteo Focardi

We provide a general approach to Lipschitz regularity of solutions for a large class of vector-valued, nonautonomous variational problems exhibiting nonuniform ellipticity. The functionals considered here range amongst those with unbalanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Cristiana De Filippis , Giuseppe Mingione

In this paper we consider an obstacle problem for a generalization of the p-elastic energy among graphical curves with fixed ends. Taking into account that the Euler--Lagrange equation has a degeneracy, we address the question whether…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Anna Dall'Acqua , Marius Müller , Shinya Okabe , Kensuke Yoshizawa

In this paper we prove the optimal $C^{1,1}(B_\frac12)$-regularity for a general obstacle type problem $$ \lap u = f\chi_{\{u\neq 0\}}\textup{in $B_1$}, $$ under the assumption that $f*N$ is $C^{1,1}(B_1)$, where $N$ is the Newtonian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-05 John Andersson , Erik Lindgren , Henrik Shahgholian

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 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 consider the defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the exterior of a smooth compact strictly convex obstacle in three dimensions. For the initial-value problem with Dirichlet boundary condition we prove global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Rowan Killip , Monica Visan , Xiaoyi Zhang

We study a general class of elliptic free boundary problems equipped with a Dirichlet boundary condition. Our primary result establishes an optimal $C^{1,1}$-regularity estimate for $L^p$-strong solutions at points where the free and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Damião J. Araújo , Andreas Minne , Edgard A. Pimentel

We consider the Dirichlet problem for positively homogeneous, degenerate elliptic, concave (or convex) Hessian equations. Under natural and necessary conditions on the geometry of the domain, with the $C^{1,1}$ boundary data, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Wei Zhou

We establish the existence of at least two solutions of the {\it Prandtl-Batchelor} like elliptic problem driven by a power nonlinearity and a singular term. The associated energy functional is nondifferentiable and hence the usual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Debajyoti Choudhuri , Dušan D. Repovš

We establish the $C^{1+\gamma}$-H\"older regularity of the regular free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplace operator with drift in the subcritical regime. Our method of the proof consists in proving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia