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We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations with obstacle (OSPDEs in short) in degenerate case. Using De Giorgi's iteration, we deduce the $L^p-$estimates for the time-space…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

This paper concerns fully nonlinear elliptic obstacle problems with oblique boundary conditions. We investigate the existence, uniqueness and $W^{2,p}$-regularity results by finding approximate non-obstacle problems with the same oblique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sun-Sig Byun , Jeongmin Han , Jehan Oh

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

We investigate the existence of two nontrivial solutions for a poly-Laplacian system involving concave-convex nonlinearities and parameters with Dirichlet boundary condition on locally finite graphs. By using the mountain pass theorem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Ping Yang , Xingyong Zhang

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 consider the one and the two obstacles problems for the nonlocal nonlinear anisotropic $g$-Laplacian $\mathcal{L}_g^s$, with $0<s<1$. We prove the strict T-monotonicity of $\mathcal{L}_g^s$ and we obtain the Lewy-Stampacchia…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Catharine W. K. Lo , José Francisco Rodrigues

This paper develops a novel approach to necessary optimality conditions for constrained variational problems defined in generally incomplete subspaces of absolutely continuous functions. Our approach involves reducing a variational problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Ashkan Mohammadi , Boris Mordukhovich

In this paper we prove the local boundedness as well as the local Lipschitz continuity for solutions to a class of obstacle problems of the type $$\min\left\{\int_\Omega {F(x, Dz)}: z\in \mathcal{K}_{\psi}(\Omega)\right\}.$$ Here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Michele Caselli , Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We obtain regularity results in weighted Sobolev spaces for the solution of the obstacle problem for the integral fractional Laplacian. The weight is a power of the distance to the boundary. These bounds then serve us as a guide in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Abner J. Salgado

In this paper, we study the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet problem concerning general semilinear elliptic equations in divergence form. We establish that the boundary Lipschitz regularity of solutions under some more weaker conditions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jingqi Liang , Lihe Wang , Chunqin Zhou

We prove under general assumptions that solutions of the thin obstacle or Signorini problem in any space dimension achieve the optimal regularity $C^{1,1/2}$. This improves the known optimal regularity results by allowing the thin obstacle…

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We study the global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to kinetic Kolmogorov-Vicsek models that can be considered a non-local non-linear Fokker-Planck type equation describing the dynamics of individuals with orientational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Irene M. Gamba , Moon-Jin Kang

In this article we present a new strategy of addressing the (variable coefficient) thin obstacle problem. Our approach is based on a (variable coefficient) Carleman estimate. This yields semi-continuity of the vanishing order, lower and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We establish the optimal $C_{H}^{1,1}$ interior regularity of solutions to \[ \Delta_{H}u=f\chi_{\{u\ne0\}}, \] where $\Delta_{H}$ denotes the sub-Laplacian operator in a stratified group. We assume the weakest regularity condition on $f$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Valentino Magnani , Andreas Minne

In the previous work [Interfaces Free Bound., 19, 351-369, 2017], de Queiroz and Shahgholian investigated the regularity of the solution to the obstacle problem with singular logarithmic forcing term \begin{equation*} -\Delta u = \log u \,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Lili Du , Yi Zhou

In this paper, we establish pointwise boundary ${{C}^{1,\alpha}}$ estimates for viscosity solutions of some degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations on ${C^{1,\alpha}}$ domains. Instead of straightening out the boundary, we utilize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Xuemei Li , Dongsheng Li

We study the obstacle problem for parabolic operators of the type $\partial_t + L$, where $L$ is an elliptic integro-differential operator of order $2s$, such as $(-\Delta)^s$, in the supercritical regime $s \in (0,{1/2})$. The best result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

Within this chapter, we discuss control in the coefficients of an obstacle problem. Utilizing tools from H-convergence, we show existence of optimal solutions. First order necessary optimality conditions are obtained after deriving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Andreas Hehl , Denis Khimin , Ira Neitzel , Nicolai Simon , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner